[labrador]

I've been very impressed by the open source Ladybird project for several years now. I wasn't up to date and didn't realize it had 8 full time engineers working on it now with project leader Andreas Kling. This is truely more promising than "slapping things on Chromium" and competing with Google Chrome.

I didn't explicity state but was implying that a new plug in archeticture to the open source Chromium project might be an interesting way to add AI features in a more democratic fashion.

Either path still has to compete with what Google does with proprietary extensions to Chrome.

Edit to be clear: Since Chromium is open source, the community could actually collaborate on adding a shared AI plugin architecture to the core project rather than making competing forks. That would solve the fragmentation problem entirely.

[zamadatix]

A "community" collaboration would run into the same problems as Chromium - the companies making these skins want the browser to be based around their product instead of having the browser be the product.