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founding

Your audio is way too low. Maybe you need to get closer to the microphone or something but it's way too low.

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NO! Life would be VERY bad without firefox. Firefox has become vital to the internet. Its tiny userbase is a problem already. Chromium technically is open source, but Google controls everything going into that project. DRM on the web was possible because chromium based browsers are so popular. Sure, you can fork chromium and make a spin-off based on that, but if you don't sooner or later your project will deviate too much from google chromium and it won't function as well as before. Because of the large userbase, websites are tested for chromium based browsers, and the chance your spin off will work with the most important sites becomes less and less.

Of course, there are webkit based browsers, like safari, gnome's or kde's browser, but they get used less and less for the same compatibility reason.

I would go so far to argue that anyone that uses a chromium based browser plays a part in the declining internet experience. Those users put the power into google's hands, and google is dangerous. Monopolies are bad, certainly google monopolies.

More general, I think it would be very good to nudge people just a little to the niche or smaller of the big players, the underdogs, to prevent dangerous monopolies forming. Not just browsers, but in general.

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founding

I have tried many many web browsers over the years. Honestly I don't like any of them and they all suck and also they are the only reason I use a GUI interface. If it weren't for the need of a modern browser I would never use a GUI interface for anything. There just is no reason too. With that said there is only one browser right now I am pulling for and that is the NetSurf browser but it is miles away from the modern browser. IMHO all the top browsers are just garbage code and should be deleted.

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