• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Why can’t they just fork the last usable version of chromium and go from there as an independent fork? Is it just that no one wants to?

    Creating or even just maintaining a web browser is an insurmountable amount of work. With constantly changing and new specs coming out all the time, it’s an unwinnable amount of work. Not to mention, browsers and the Internet in general is so complex it’s like web browsers are an operating system themselves.

    A web browser is likely the most complex software on your PC outside of the operating system itself.

    • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      It is not insurmountable, new browsers made by single or small dev teams exist. If there is enough demand and motivated people to make something like ladybird there is people who could handle maintaining a fork that works, Chrome wasn’t always the only game in town and in the IE there was even at least one sort of engine agnostic browser that you could switch between Trident (IE) or Gecko rendering. Its not an easy thing but its very much possible.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Web browser made by a single or small dev tends to not support nearly as much of the web standards, which are many. Using the web today with partial support for some stuff is the nightmare we escaped when IE got deprecated, and some still have with Safari.