[chaxor]

Perhaps if chrome finally fails people will move to better things, like servo https://github.com/servo/servo.

It would be nice to have a completely open source browser that can be built with a simple one liner from cargo. Having several thousands of eyes on the code daily to check for telemetry violations, privacy issues, security, and performance daily in mostly a single language, small, and well structured browser repo would be phenomenal compared to the disjoint jumbled messes we have today.

[melodyogonna]

Better for who? I use Chrome because the experience has been the best for me.

[chaxor]

As indicated by the explanation, better for people who believe in FOSS rather than closed corporate software.

Most developers work with a Unix mindset (do one thing well, with focus on simple and easily managed code), which tyically means telemetry is _wildly_ out of line (offers no real benefit for the basics while adding huge complexity), so privacy and security are naturally far better. Lynx like TUI browsers are a nice idea, but unfortunately sometimes an image is desired to be manually viewed, or javascript is required. It would be wonderful if javascript were simply dropped from most websites, but we don't live in that world, so we're stuck with the next best thing (disabling all js until explicitly allowed by the user).

These are the types of things people in software devs typically care about, which there are many in HN.

[mulmen]

Best of what’s available. There’s no way to know what innovations were squashed by Google’s dominance of the browser market.