Microsoft Is Going Ahead And Rebuilding Edge Browser Atop Chromium

[Flaburgan]

It is a very bad news indeed. To those who don't get why as one open-source seems better than one open and one closed engine, the problem here is monopoly.
Remember that in our world based on profits, we won't do anything if it is not profitable. So if I can support 90% of my visitors by testing only one engine, why would I bother test the others? So I will start developing website not the way the norm tells me to do, but the way blink supports it. **A chromium monopoly means the end of the W3C standards** and with them, the end of the free Web. This is one of the worst news of the year.

[gbcox]

I know very well the difference between free and open source software, many projects accepted in Gnu / Linux are open source, Chromium is not the only one, Ubuntu self-defines open source and most of the community of Gnu / Linux accepts open source projects, this I see only grudge with Chromium.

You need to re-read my comment. You're completely missing the point.

[ZeroPointEnergy]

Wait, I don't get it. Isn't chromium based on webkit and that was based on khtml which was LGPL?

Well we need a variety of browser engines and microsoft goes with google, like all others except of mozilla and some small browser teams. A good news would be microsoft drops DirectCompute in favor of OpenCL or microsoft drops DX12 in favor of Vulkan.

And if NVIDIA would finally drop CUDA in favour of OpenCL, and Apple dropped Metal in favour of Vulkan, the world will be sane again and developers will breathe a huge sigh of relief.

Unfortunately, it's very unlike to happen.

[Terrablit]

Forget about Edge, what is happening with Chakra JS engine of M$?

Isn't it already on GitHub? The ChakraCore project has been there for a while. Someone even got node running on it.

I doubt they'll spend much effort in maintaining it if the drop Edge, but people can maintain it if they want it.

[Charlie68]

You're confusing open source with open choice. As I mentioned earlier just because a project is open source doesn't mean it is run by some benevolent entity that is concerned with the freedom of the web. In this case, Chromium is run by Google - and was created specifically as a method to fuel it's ad revenue engine. There is nothing illegal or nefarious about that - but just understand that Google is sponsoring Chromium to enhance it's revenue stream - and it isn't going to allow anything in Chromium to interfere with that. Mozilla on the other hand is a not for profit corporation whose purpose is ensure the internet is global public resource, open and accessible to all.

I know very well the difference between free and open source software, many projects accepted in Gnu / Linux are open source, Chromium is not the only one, Ubuntu self-defines open source and most of the community of Gnu / Linux accepts open source projects, this I see only grudge with Chromium.

[PlanetVaster]

I wonder what this means for NodeJS ChakuraCore (NodeJS built on Microsoft's ChakuraJS engine).

[gbcox]

Do you wonder about this? I do not understand, Chromium is an open source project in all respects, it is absurd to read users against Chromium just because it is a project sponsored by Google. For years, we have asked open source projects, we can not say no good because they are a project sponsored by a company that we do not like! Did you prefer Google to act like Microsoft at the time of IE proprietary software? So there was no choice, FF for Linux and IE for Windows was better? I do not believe ! I agree with you Hrkristian!

You're confusing open source with open choice. As I mentioned earlier just because a project is open source doesn't mean it is run by some benevolent entity that is concerned with the freedom of the web. In this case, Chromium is run by Google - and was created specifically as a method to fuel it's ad revenue engine. There is nothing illegal or nefarious about that - but just understand that Google is sponsoring Chromium to enhance it's revenue stream - and it isn't going to allow anything in Chromium to interfere with that. Mozilla on the other hand is a not for profit corporation whose purpose is ensure the internet is global public resource, open and accessible to all.

[M@GOid]

You, the single user/developer, have no say in what Mozilla, Google, or MS do with their browsers. Get over it. All these companies care is money, plain and simple. And the way they get that is by selling you.

I watch post after post where people naively believes Mozilla is a champion of freedom, "the last person standing", etc etc, without even reading their terms of service, or the default configs on their browser.

And they (Mozilla) don't give a crap about the needs of you, the Linux user. Wayland support? Hardware video acceleration? Nah, we are too busy changing the look of Firefox, removing features, abandoning Thunderbird or harassing our CEO. Now excuse us while we try to spend all the millions Google pay us in important things like Rust, FirefoxOS or whatever project that didn't get in the way of Chrome wiping the floor with us.

[fuzz]

For those who don't know Edge is already on Android and iOS. In a way, it makes sense for Microsoft to standardize on one backend.