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I'm not particularly interested in a Microsoft-branded Chrome variant on Linux. But this is interesting as a stepping stone toward WebView2 on Linux, which will give Electron some serious competition: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...

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Can't believe I'm saying this out loud after all the evil Microsoft did under Gates and Ballmer, but... I'd rather it be Microsoft-branded than Google-branded, which is why Edge is my daily driver for front-end web development.

I prefer Brave to either of those.

I have respect for Brendan Eich and his work, but I'd rather rely on uBlock Origin and my PiHole than pay micropayments and see ads that Brave shows.

In fact, I'd be fine with paying $10/month to support all the sites I regularly visit... but BAT tokens are weird.

Why not use all of it? I opted out of micropayments and ads, installed the full bevy of ad blocking on Brave, and use pihole for DNS.

Also I don't need a Crypto Wallet plugin built into my browser that I can't remove.

Our use Firefox and addons and have the best of all worlds.

I use FireFox for home browsing, but Chromium dev tools are still far ahead, so Edge is what I use at work.

Given the limitations of any Chromium-based browser after Manifest V3 it seems like uBlock Origin + Firefox would be the better bet? I do use Brave (w/o opting in to their crypto stuff) for Google-ly things like gMaps, but do most of my browsing in FF for that reason.

I'll definitely be moving on from Edge if/when it fails to support uBlock Origin.

For those who aren't familiar with WebView2: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

Competition is the wrong word. Microsoft owns both projects. Surely there will be a rebrand and resource shift to WebView in the next couple years.

I don't think Microsoft owns Electron...

MS owns GitHub which maintains Electron. Core maintainers are MS employees.

That's interesting, thanks for the context.

earlier today I checked again the mac tracking issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... as I hope for improvements for the unacceptable Teams client, and there is a new comment mentioning Oct '22 for the mac version of webview2 meaning that the linux one will come later. Of course the validity of that comment is to be checked but if that is the case, then they are just moving really really slow

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