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im surprised this is earning such downvotes. idk about the "opinionated" vm perspective but I think it needing its own engine oe not is at least something worth considering. firefox has been my go-to alt browser for years as my backup to chrome. it was what I would use to "test again in another browser" but as time has gone by, more and more stuff just doesn't work on firefox :(

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It's already problematic to have Chromium dominating/near-monopolizing, and add salt to the wound letting Gecko die this way.

Chromium is so prevalent as an engine, that most developers don't test their code on Firefox and just tell everyone to use Chrome/Chromium when they run into issues.

This has the unintentional side-effect of strong-arming the W3C into compliance with the engine and not the other way around. Why do we bother with the W3C then? if they are powerless and Chromium can do as they please?

But if firefox ran chrome, it wouldn't be a problem. Vivaldi, Opera, and others are doing just fine.

The problem is

  >> This has the unintentional side-effect of strong-arming the W3C into compliance with the engine and not the other way around.

I don't want any engine to have that much dominance, but I especially don't want that dominating engine owned by an ad company who's main goal is to spy on people.

Did you read the comment your replied to?

> idk about the "opinionated" vm perspective

What I mean is, it's basically a VM. It's got a screen, inputs, storage, networking.

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