Comment by benreesman
1 year ago
It’s just the kind of thing that happens in a huge, production codebase.
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Google, but some strings in multiple places isn’t a good reason to be skeptical of the Chromium maintainers.
I know it's naturally happening in a large codebase, I'm asking why they specifically maintain a fork just for that instead of trying to push what are probably easy (but tedious) upstream fixes.
Purely guessing: abstracting a browser name is yet another abstraction layer. A later that is not needed by chromium. Maintainers of chromium primarily care about maintainability of chromium, not other forks.
If the browser name is referenced in multiple places, it seems to me that by defining it in one place actually increases the maintainability.
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