Wow, I love the idea of a business-focused browser, but I wish it were open source and a full bottom-up rewrite of a browser. Not just another Chromium rebrand! Garsh.
@33MHz Hmm. I don’t think I understand the meaning at all. “Home” versus “business” sometimes means more productive features or a pricier feature set. In my work we look for “industrial,” like the device is rugged, mounts on DIN rail, speaks CIP, etc.
@mandy I think the browser is a B2B browser, not for end-users per se. I was hoping their business model was as a platform, by being a general-purpose browser, but it's trying to sell to massive corporations, not Everyone.
@evefavretto yeah, although for MS it's a strategic decision to dump more into Chromium, I assume. A new actor with magic money could invest R&D, but I'm also dreaming that this would be a very strict spec, not the crazy growing behemoth that Google pushes
@evefavretto The practicality would be that this new browser would support a strict spec, that developers could easily target, that would work in Chromium, but could be used, say, on embedded devices, running this light, strict browser.
@33MHz browsers are complex beasts. I would love to see a new engine around, but I don't think many companies can afford the development expense, and the few ones that can are either already doing it or don't have a good reason to.
@33MHz@mandy Opera was quite big in that niche (pretty much anything with a CPU had a variant of Opera), but nowadays nobody really cares (and their browser is also Chromium-based)