[dubcanada]

It's a blank browser, has barely any "Google" specific stuff in it ready to go. It is easy to develop for, doesn't require cross language compiling (rust/c++), builds fast, easy to understand how the different parts work (at least for a browser developer it should be), has documentation, is meant to be used to develop your own browser.

[withinboredom]

Are you sure Chromium builds fast? lol, it takes my laptop with 12 cores and 64gb of ram over an hour to compile from scratch, not counting the ~20gb of git history to download (I maintain an internal build at work).

[dubcanada]

Well lol it is a rather complex piece of software, so maybe take that one back.

Firefox is comparable in that department.

[bzbarsky]

Having compiled both: it's not. On the same hardware, Firefox takes ~4x less time to compile than Chromium for me...

[microcolonel]

Which platform were you compiling on, and when? It's been some years now, but Chromium used to build with MSVC on Windows.

[I_AM_A_SMURF]

I worked on both, it's no comparison. Firefox builds in about 40min on my macbook pro, Chromium takes like 4 hours?

[tim--]

I can't even get Chromium to build on my MacBook Pro, so there's that. (15-inch, 2018, 16GB RAM)

What magic are you using to be able to build Chromium?

[bzbarsky]

Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.