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by whatyesaid 604 days ago
Maybe if Opera, Arc, and Brave people joined forces... Without a combined effort they lack the power of Chrome store and developer docs.

Worst comes to worst they can use the Firefox engine. The MV2 extensions don't need much work to leap over for Firefox

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This is why it’s so critical that we don’t consolidate onto monocultures. It is crucial that Firefox and WebKit continue to be viable alternatives to Chromium.
Worst comes to worst they can use the Firefox engine

I wish that was the outcome. I could finally try firefox with a ui that fits my workflow.

My impression is that it's much easier to embed chromium than Firefox’s engine
Is this something that Mozilla is focusing on at all? That would seem like an important step towards actually protecting the heterogeneity of the web (or what's left of it).