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Comment by floydnoel | Hacker News Reader

I'm glad this is being fought, Oracle is a demon.

> The major implementations of JavaScript are in the browsers built by Mozilla, Google, Apple, and Microsoft

Isn't MS's browser just Chromium? Weird to add them to the list when they don't build a browser any more. Why not add Brave, etc?

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Well, at least I can still install ublock origin on Edge, but I can't do that on Vanilla Chromium (yep, that manifest v3 thing is enabled by default for Chromium in Google's flavor)

> Isn't MS's browser just Chromium?

No. It's based on Chromium. It has quite a bit on functionally that's not available on Chrome or Chromium.

for the purposes of this discussion, irrelevant. we are talking about JS implementations. extra bookmarking features or copilot slop isn't a factor.

> Weird to add them to the list when they don't build a browser any more

It seems like their browser engine is still being supported for use in "Universal Windows Platform" apps, or at least that's what Wikipedia says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML

sure ok, you can still use it in UWP webviews (but you can also use the chromium version). but that seems like a really insignificant application compared to the rest of the browsers being listed.

it only seems right to mention them, after all they did have the most used JS implementation back in the day, even if it is barely used nowadays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSHTML

MS implements JS with its typescript compiler

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