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Forgeties79yesterday at 9:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

But the open source project wouldn’t need to invest as much as Google does. There are all kinds of features and things they are working on that the general public really does not care about.


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RunSettoday at 12:21 PM

Chrome attained its user base not by merit but by paying third party Windows installers to bundle it.

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paulryanrogersyesterday at 11:06 PM

> But the open source project wouldn’t need to invest as much as Google does.

Not at first. Yet over time the work increases as one must differ more and more from Chrome. I believe that's why so many forks are giving up on Manifest V2.

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StilesCrisisyesterday at 9:52 PM

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