Chromium, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Brendan Eich 10Ben Gilbert 4David Rosenthal 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Chromium comes up
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:55:13 David Rosenthal Yeah, they're using Chromium.
- ▶ 1:55:35 David Rosenthal And when I say people launching web browsers today are using Chromium, Chromium, of course, is the open source version of Chrome that Google just gives away for free to anybody.
- ▶ 2:15:32 Ben Gilbert Why make Chromium open source?
- ▶ 2:16:25 Ben Gilbert If someone takes Chromium and then builds a better browser, it's kind of bad because now you have to pay that browser maker.
- ▶ 2:16:41 Ben Gilbert If they need to go and split some rev share and pay, you know, someone who makes, uh, some variant of Chrome based on Chromium, and that gets really big and it gets 30% of the market,
- ▶ 3:00:39 Ben Gilbert And from Google's side, it's the exact same thing as that thing we talked about with open sourcing Chromium.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:00 Brendan Eich So Brave is a faster browser because it blocks all the trackers, many of which Google or its publishers or ad buyers depend on, and it's based on Chrome, the Chromium open source code.
- ▶ 41:22 Brendan Eich Microsoft had woken up and was doing IE and finally did Edge, and this was before they switched Edge to be based on Chromium.
- ▶ 1:01:11 Brendan Eich We use the Electron framework when we switched from a private version based on Mozilla's Gecko engine to Chromium Blink, and using Electron was a mistake.
- ▶ 1:01:24 Brendan Eich That was horrifying to discover, and it's kind of bloated and replaced a lot of middleware files in the Chromium code that Google was
- ▶ 1:01:31 Brendan Eich Breaking through internal API shifts, and we finally got onto a proper, well-maintained Chromium fork, including the front end.
- ▶ 1:03:21 Brendan Eich And we did start with, with Mozilla Gecko in a multiprocess sandboxed, uh, framework called Graphene that was part of Firefox OS, which I'd worked on, but it just lost on this big spreadsheet we did where we just scored it against Chromium…
- ▶ 1:03:57 Brendan Eich Well, Google's giving it out, but they're really only giving it out for Chromium based browsers.
- ▶ 1:04:10 Brendan Eich We needed all the mobile WebKit lineage that goes into Chromium Blink that's still used on the mobile web.
- ▶ 1:04:26 Brendan Eich And yet as a small team, we couldn't do the full chromium fork as we grew, we did.
- ▶ 1:04:33 Brendan Eich We came out with a brave core based browser, which is our maintainable version of chromium blink and our own front end still close to Google's and