[fidotron]

He may or may not want the attention, but https://ladybird.org/ is coming along surprisingly well.

In the meantime Safari/Firefox as appropriate.

It's a shame really, because as a piece of software engineering Chrome is incredible.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Is it though? Or is it a monolithic rube Goldberg machine of lock-in?

[gr4vityWall]

V8 is amazing.

[NemoNobody]

Brave is better.

[sadeshmukh]

and also based on chromium

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Yeah but I should be able to swap in any JavaScript engine I desire or use one provided by the system. Browsers are far too bloated.

[Dalewyn]

Playing Devil's Advocate, maybe browsers are still too incomplete. Once browsers are the operating system, everyone can simply speak Chrome and be done with it. The success of Electron strongly suggests both devs and users want to singularize on Chrome, so why not take it to the logical conclusion?

Chrome is the abstraction layer to WindowsMacOSiOSLinuxAndroidBSDx86ARMRISC-Vspaghettisoup.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Electron is only successful because it saves development time compared to native applications, not because it's good for users.