It's Gab's own browser, based on Chrome code. It has even it's own comment section overlay, so you can comment on any website and all other Dissenter users see them.
In part, yes. Google open-sourced the core engines back in 2005 or so, which the chromium dev community now maintains. They frequently contribute back to the community in the form of patches and steer the development of new technologies like HTTP/2.
Much of the Google-specific stuff and high-performance tweaks exist only in Chrome... that's their "secret sauce".
Was and is... they provide dev tools, servers to host the code, and technical advice.
It's a symbiotic relationship... Google provides a stable dev infrastructure for open source devs to improve chromium, in turn they merge the best code into their fork, Chrome.
even better: Dissenter
It's Gab's own browser, based on Chrome code. It has even it's own comment section overlay, so you can comment on any website and all other Dissenter users see them.
I thought it was based on brave
I've heard of dissenter, but they don't have a mobile app to they? Could I get it somewhere else besides google play store?
yeah true, it's not available for mobile yet unfortunately.
I'll still check it out for my desktop. Though I've been hearing good things about Iridium browser.
Based on open-source Chromium. Google Chrome is a fork (like a child project) of Chromium, just like Brave, Dissenter, Vivaldi, etc.
They all take the base code (very vanilla and not for public consumption) and add additional capabilities to make it into a useable browser.
all this time i thought chromium was made by google
In part, yes. Google open-sourced the core engines back in 2005 or so, which the chromium dev community now maintains. They frequently contribute back to the community in the form of patches and steer the development of new technologies like HTTP/2. Much of the Google-specific stuff and high-performance tweaks exist only in Chrome... that's their "secret sauce".
Wikipedia says chromium was sponsored by google
Was and is... they provide dev tools, servers to host the code, and technical advice.
It's a symbiotic relationship... Google provides a stable dev infrastructure for open source devs to improve chromium, in turn they merge the best code into their fork, Chrome.