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Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 2 years ago by Vitaly@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Desso@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Add-ons on mobile. Plus, Chrome is slowly but surely gimping their ad-blocking extensions.

[–] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Because it's the only browser not based on Google's Chromium rendering engine (Webview, WebKit? whatever). Using any other browser supports Google's monopoly over how we browse the internet and what we are allowed to see. No, fuck Google.

Edit: spelling

[–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If you're interested at all:

Google Chrome is a fork of the open source Chromium with several Google proprietary features. Chromium uses the Blink engine. Blink is a fork of a large component of WebKit called WebCore. Apple primarily develops WebKit (and by proxy WebCore), itself being a fork of KHTML and KJS which were actually discontinued this year.