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Why do we have Linux but not the browser equivalent? It’s been far more important than an OS for most people for a long time now.


We do have an open source browser, it dates back to 2002.

It's has higher desktop use than Linux - 15% of desktop browsers according to wikimedia compared with 7% for linux (about half of which is chromebooks)


Chromium? I'm dreaming of something without a giant corp behind it. A project that, at it's core, would always and forever, celebrate uBlock Origin, and things like it, instead of making up "security" issues to thwart it's power.


https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...

Firefox is 13%. Not great - it's down from 18% in 10 years, but it's good enough for me.

If you want to complain that it's eventually funded by google, I have bad news for you about who pays for linux developers.




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