Most web browsers are built around the Chromium framework, which is primarily developed by Google. This gives Google an outsized influence on an even greater proportion of the web browser market than merely Google Chrome. Some would argue that this gives too much control over web standards to a single corporation, which in turn could be deleterious for the health of the internet overall - akin to the hegemony and eventual downfall of Netscape.
Notable Chromium-based browsers include:
Brave
Chrome
Edge
Opera
Samsung Internet
Vivaldi
Notable non-Chromium-based browsers include:
Firefox
Safari
UC Browser
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3.00Verifying a couple of details here:
Anything using the Blink browser engine would qualify as using the "Chromium framework" by your definition, right? Even if it uses no other parts of Chrome or Chromium other than the engine itself?
Anything not using the Blink browser engine would not qualify, even if it shares a few other components with Chrome/Chromium? (For instance, Firefox uses the skia graphics library, which originated in Chrome.)
@josh You're correct on both points - I probably should've made this question about using Blink rather than using Chromium. I'm mostly interested in Blink vs Gecko/WebKit. Thanks for the helpful question :)
@JemBishop if you think there is "no way" that this market resolves to yes, shouldn't you be better more than Ṁ15 on it? ;)
I agree it's unlikely, but I think there are plausible paths to it happening, trends are not always indicative of the future. I mostly thought this question was a more interesting/relevant flavour of this one:
@JemBishop I would buy more but I have no more money :) Also the LP is very small so wouldn't make sense economically.