> Google is slowly closing down the lockdown trap they have nurtured for so many years
I think that forks of Chromium which have their own sync are easily thwarting this effort. If nothing else, you can always use Edge.
I think that forks of Chromium which have their own sync are easily thwarting this effort. If nothing else, you can always use Edge.
As long as one company controls the One Rendering Engine, all websites are tested against that One Rendering Engine (i.e. not the truth of the spec).
It becomes impossible to create a new rendering engine without actively copying the quirks behaviours.
Sadly, I fear that the reason Free Software folks don't seem to be getting quite so keyed up about Chrome is that, at least for now, the One Rendering Engine happens to work on Linux. It seems that even principles can be mercenary.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/download-...
I was originally pretty excited about Edge, even as a non-Windows user. I'm not sad to see IE go. But times have changed, and the balance of power has shifted. Now that IE is no longer dominant, simply losing it only worsens the browser oligopoly. Replacing it with a new rendering engine that's designed from the ground up to be standards compliant, though, makes things better. It could have meant that Firefox could once again have had an actual ally in trying to prop up a free and open Web.
Microsoft giving up on Edge's rendering engine and replacing it with Chromium, though, means that, ironically, the death of IE ultimately served to further exactly the bad situation that it once emblematized.
We're just trading one leadership figure for another.