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by altilunium 1433 days ago
Chromium-based engine : Chromium, Chrome, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Edge, Naver Whale.

Firefox-based engine : Firefox, GNU Icecat.

Firefox is slowly becoming the pariah of web browser.

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I'm building a web app, and tested the app against all those browser. The behavior is really different, especially regarding the implementation a newly developed web api and the depreciation plan of ancient javascript api. For example, xhr depreciation [1].

As for chromium, they are quite responsive in responding the developer inquiries regarding a browser-specific API implementation. [2][3]

Sadly, it's IE vs Netscape all over again.

[1] : https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#the-open()-method

[2] :https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-discuss

[3] : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353527090_Rancang_B... (it contains my communication excerpts to the Chromium team, regarding xhr deprecation plan)

The yellow warning box on [1] is referring specifically to one flag, not to XHR generally.
> Firefox-based engine : Firefox, GNU Icecat.

Plus many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on...