Comment by vachina

11 hours ago

I don’t see how supporting Chromium is better than not supporting an alternate rendering engine. Firefox for the end-user is fantastic.

People build on chromium for the same reason they build on Linux. I’d personally prefer if they built on illumos or bsd but at a certain point people would rather spend their innovation budget higher up the stack and benefit from the platform that has the most open source engineers working on it.

  • Except it turns out that it's a good thing that the alternative implementations exist. Standards are meaningless if there's only one implementer.