Is there anything stopping all the forks from just removing the limit like Firefox plans to do?
Could this be a chrome proper only thing? E.g no limit in brave or edge
Possible yes, but since Google controls the Chromium and can implement whatever they want there all the forks would need to start maintaining their own fork and patching the upstream changes instead of just blindly upgrading like now.
If they wanted to do this, for simplicity sake, they could all agree to use the same fork and only allow that one change.
Whoever controls that though might power trip and start doing more though.
You have a lot of different vendors with different motivations and profit motives, so it would a hard sell to find a single proxy to handle it.
Edge, Brave, Opera, all owned by for profit entities.
Then there is Vivaldi, who is owned by employees of the company.
But there is also ungoogled-chromium who has 6 org members who oversee the fork.Among many others that are less popular.
Agreed. On top of that, there is a lot of free engineering work that these downstream distros are benefiting from. Tinkering too much risks each change up the chain requiring more work to pull down into their fork.
These browser alts will at some point just cow tow to Google’s new vision of the internet. The only people who really have any real ability to push back unfortunately … Is Apple (and I don’t like admitting that but see apple vs flash) and webkit.
I wonder if I could simply get away with a browser that adheres to webkit standards (like the original chrome used to) like gnome web or konquerer.
