Orion could make this easier
- basically a Safari fork with Chrome / FF plugin support (use it as my daily driver, pretty good and uBlock Origin in Safari? Yes please!)
So agree, the PdM should not be using Chrome.
I suggested the Kagi Orion path elsewhere in this comment page too, since that would give the PdM extensions, while still seeing what users see.
Someone said Safari fork but not WebKit fork.
"Can we have Firefox support? It would really help promote the Open Web."
"Sure, it was on our roadmap already."
"AKTLY You need to rewrite your app for Safari support and WebKit coverage because if you ignore that then imagine how bad the iOS experience will be!!! People will blame you instead of themselves because they're simply too domesticated to fix technology issues, so do their work for them!"
...rinse and repeat for everything Apple refuses to support themselves. We wouldn't be begging people for Safari support if it was a successful browser or if people actually cared about it in the first place.
Developers might not like it but people use it. Personally I use it for almost everything now.