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Like who for instance? Basically only Blink, WebKit and Gecko are usable non-toy web engines these days, and they're all backed by big companies with deep pockets and many engineers.

Opera's long gone, now it's a chromium fork. Internet Explorer is gone, now MS uses a chromium fork. The hype new browsers like Brave and Vivaldi are just chromium under the hood.

It's like the difference between making a Linux distro and maintaining a full OS.



I am responding specifically to the claim that Mozilla is short on resources because Google has a thousand people working on Chrome.


Google and Mozilla are competing in the browser market so it's pretty reasonable to compare their investments. I don't understand your reasoning here.


My reasoning is that Google's investment is massive and just because they're throwing money and people at a problem doesn't make it necessary for everyone else to do so as well.


True, but when you say:

>Other browsers do just fine with significantly fewer engineers

It implies that you have any examples.


Safari.


Fair point :)


I'm pretty sure Brave is FF.


I'm more than pretty sure it isn't.


oh you're right, not sure where I got the impression it was FF.




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