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wait, the steam browser is chromium? no way
Basically every in app browser is.
How the fuck has everyone so easily allowed so few tech companies to dominate?
That's just late stage capitalism.
Do you just keep that on the clipboard?
Honestly my google auto-type keyboard suggests that any time I post.
No, that's just people don't want to pay for anything and expect everything to be free.
Have you tried developing your own web browser?
The Web has become so complex, you need a huge team of talented developers to keep up with it, and for that you need a lot of money.
How hard can’t it be just put scrum on GitHub and let it work from there
Strange that nobody's doing that, then. Especially since so many people want more competition for Google.
Robert Bork:
....What the fuck?
Yeah, it's fine if you drive all your competition out of business, as long as the consumer "isn't harmed"^TM^ . But, of course, how are you going to prove that the consumer isn't harmed?
Software development is very expensive. And everyone just wants free stuff. Imagine the outcry if Firefox would drop revenue from Google search and switched to a subscription model a-la Adobe! People would literally lose their minds and call Mozilla Nazis.
Chromium/Electron is just super easy to integrate. Afaik Mozilla wanted to make Firefox more easily embedable as well, but that project was killed.
Closest these days is an extension for Firefox that enable progressive web apps.
Was IE for the longest time
Not only the browser. The whole app was built with CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
It used to be only the browser/store. Now it's the whole app.