They are evaluating different ways to continue to support ad blocking. E.g. "unbraving" Brave Browser, or just implementing their adblock-rust.
They most likely won't support MV2, since it would get increasingly difficult with each update to Chromium.
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/issues/662
Creating a wayland compositor based in wlroots is much more work than an X11 window manager. And then there's quite a bit of work to keep up with new Wayland protocols.
But I personally don't think there's a need for more compositors, since the existing compositors do support all kinds of tiling.
E.g. river has custom layout providers, which allows for creating completely custom tiling behaviour. There's even a hyprland plugin which implements river-layout-v3.
Since most of the fediverse is run by volunteers, blocking ads isn't much of a concern.
Though I do agree with the sentiment and I love Firefox + uBlock Origin on my phone.
Oh thanks, I didn't know it's an abbreviation.
IIRC Apple only is 1st in sales revenue and sold devices of a single sku. All Android phones combined have a far bigger share by volume.
Which makes sense, since iPhones are on average incredibly expensive, especially for many countries where they have to be imported.
I've never seen any reason to believe Google has any say in the direction of Firefox. Google pays to be the default search engine, not more, not less.
This same argument could be brought up about Safari. All other browsers are based on Chromium anyway, so they are directly developed by Google themselves.
I got the first part about Chrome as a joke, but after I read the edit I wasn't sure anymore.
But seriously, Firefox kind of sucks.
Why do you think that? I'm happy with Firefox. It let's me customize the tabs bar through userConfig.css to exclusively use tree style tabs and supports uBlock. That's all I really need from a browser, but, sadly, all other browser only support basic vertical tabs.
A lot of edge lovers here
I guess many here don't particularly like Chrome, just like they don't like Edge.
I.e. using a browser that spies on you to download another browser that spies on you doesn't seem like a great deal to me.
Both being based on Chromium there isn't even any performance difference between them. Insert "they are the same picture"-meme.
Transcoding and transcoded downloads does not seem to be merged yet, altough there's a working PR.
The Lemmy equivalent to a Reddit subreddit is a community.
I've been using COSMIC Epoch pre-alpha for the past two months, and it definitly is on a good path. There's still many bugs, but COSMIC has gotten much better, and more featureful (e.g. I'm finally able to use my keyboard layout of choice and rebind all keys accordingly). The only major missing feature is VRR/adaptive sync, because I really don't like playing CS2 with vsync.
Sadly they switched from dynamic tiling (river, awesome) to manual tiling (sway/i3-style), but together with the window-movement-animations it's awesome. Finally there's a desktop with a compositor made with tiling in mind, and not as an afterthought.
Also I find it great how many distros already have COSMIC packages in their community repos.
Well, it seems my reading skill deteriorated to a surprising extent. You've even mentioned handbrake in your post...