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Comment by kongin | Hacker News Reader

Edge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.

They actually contribute to chromium. Almost a year old tweet: https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1329200077517295618?ref_s...

It's more than a skin. Microsoft put some effort into optimization, like using a segmented heap allocator.

Really? So every time you bring in a dependency on a library written by someone else, your software is just a theme or wrapper? I guess that's one way to look at it.

If you're making a browser and your dependency is a browser...yes.

if your python assignment is solved by

import solution

and some additional fluff (tracking,telemetry and other anti features in Edge's case) did you really do your homework?

Depends who you are turning your homework in to. :- )

Yeah, that's why it's called Linux and not Gnu/Linux.

That’s the case now but they had their own browser until 2018 backed by considerable resources and still had to put up the white flag.

1. It doesn't really matter. Most users don't even know what a browser engine is much less care, so whether it's a fully independent browser or not is irrelevant to their adoption in the marketplace.

2. The story was no different even when they were still using Trident as their engine.

Having two large user bases using different engines meant that standards mattered.

When 85% of people use the same browser stack we're back in the bad old days of IE6.

Oh, if the GP meant Chromium the engine, rather than Chrome the browser, that changes things a bit.

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