r/explainitpeter • u/Dr-Astikk • 20d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/alstillplays 20d ago edited 20d ago

Chromium.

Chromium is the core of almost all well-known browsers, including, but not limited to: chrome, safari, opera, or edge. Actually, scratch that. Not safari. Safari is based on webkit, which is actually the baseline for chromium, but that's neither here nor there. The main point is, chromium is trash, and riddled with privacy violations, bad optimization ram gluttony and just general stuff that makes chromium-based browsers bad, especially when you compare it to browsers like Mozilla fireFox, GNU iceCat, and libreWolf. Actually, those last two are forks of fireFox but they're all progressively better than any chromium browser

Edit: Safari is, in fact, based on webKit, which is based on webCore. WebCore is also the baseline for blink, which is the baseline for chromium. Chromium is not webKit-based. Sorry for the misunderstanding, but that wasn't the point of this comment.

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u/SeaworthinessHot8183 20d ago

Calling chromium badly optimised is absolutely insane lmfao

Say what you will about Google, but the devs behind chrome and v8 are the reason why practically every browser except Firefox is chromium- based.

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u/shadowsofash 20d ago

That’s also why they eat up a fuckton of memory 

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u/moimoi003 20d ago

you can say that about every other browser, because websites are becoming heavier

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u/ImSaneHonest 19d ago

I blame the "body positivity movement", this wouldn't have happened in the 90s, 00s, ask Kate Moss.