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by pcwalton 1626 days ago
It's never been easier to build a custom branded Chrome than to build a custom branded Firefox. Building a custom branded Firefox is very easy, which is why tons of people have done it.

Google achieved market share by taking the embeddable WebKit, wrapping it in a non-embeddable wrapper called Chromium, and eventually forking WebKit to Blink in large part to make it non-embeddable and more tightly coupled to Chromium.
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BenjiWiebe 1626 days ago
Custom branding and embedding aren't the same thing though.
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pcwalton 1626 days ago
Correct. And Chromium, as shipped and supported by Google (not third-party projects like CEF), is no better than Firefox at embedding (and certainly wasn't when Chromium was taking off in market share). There is a reason why Chromium-based browsers are forks of Chromium, not embeddings of Chromium.
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