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yep, we’re down to two whole browser engines. they’ve made the web so mind-bogglingly complex, it’s prohibitively expensive to write and maintain one.
i dont think there’s corporate profit in it either, not with google owning the space. so basically, we’re only going to get a better browser if china builds it :D
According to Natopedia, Opera Browser is Chinese owned now.
“As of the end of 2023, Opera Software was 72.4% owned by Kunlun, a Chinese public company, making it a subsidiary of that company. Opera CEO James Yahui Zhou is a controlling shareholder in Kunlun.”
~ Opera (web browser) - Wikipedia
It is. I was (mistakenly) referring to the question of Chinese browsers and saw the R*ddit peanut gallery about Opera being owned by the “SeeSeePee” and looked it up.
I really do hope ladybird can do something substantial, but even the most optimistic outcome is maybe half a decade away. I really do hope the techno wizards of the net do something about meaningful alternative browsers and do it soon
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yep, we’re down to two whole browser engines. they’ve made the web so mind-bogglingly complex, it’s prohibitively expensive to write and maintain one.
i dont think there’s corporate profit in it either, not with google owning the space. so basically, we’re only going to get a better browser if china builds it :D
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eh…
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Does China maintain one?
No(?) but I had a quick search and they have a chromium based browser called Twinkstar, so there’s that.
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sorry, theyre all chrome forks
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According to Natopedia, Opera Browser is Chinese owned now.
I think it’s Chromium based, just like the Russian Yandex Browser
It is. I was (mistakenly) referring to the question of Chinese browsers and saw the R*ddit peanut gallery
about Opera being owned by the “SeeSeePee” and looked it up.
yeah… I assume this is them signaling their plans for if they lose that google default search engine money (which is likely I guess?)
I guess we’ve got to hope that the LadyBird project succeeds and we get a usable browser sometime before 2030 https://ladybird.org/
I really do hope ladybird can do something substantial, but even the most optimistic outcome is maybe half a decade away. I really do hope the techno wizards of the net do something about meaningful alternative browsers and do it soon
This is so depressing…