What community would gain: competing browsers getting more traction due to larger share in the browser usage, better web standards support in the long run (remember Internet Explorer?).
What you would gain: be less dependent on Google, use open source (e.g. Firefox, Chromium, Iridium), better extensions as Chrome doesn't support third party, better performance.
Your argument about dev tools is the same as all others are saying. But everybody comfortably ignores the fact that dev tools are built into Chromium and Chrome just happens to use the same, so it is not special in that space.
>But everyone comfortably ignores the fact that the dev tools built into Chromium and Chrome are the same
I comfortably ignore it from ignorance and not convenience for my position, so feel free to help change my mind here.
Looking at an analysis[0], I see a few downsides to Chromium vs Chrome (presented as negatives when switching to Chromium from Chrome):
- not evergreen
- worse media support
- worse flash support (I watch a reasonable amount of MLB.tv, where this is for whatever reason still important)
So I am making a small amount of sacrifice for... the good of the community and, apparently, "better web standards support".
Can you flesh out your argument for this better web standards argument? I am but a child of the web development sphere and arrived at a time where "fuck IE" was an overwhelming sentiment, so I never cared to pay attention to it, nor why it was hated, and consequently I don't follow your implication there.
What you would gain: be less dependent on Google, use open source (e.g. Firefox, Chromium, Iridium), better extensions as Chrome doesn't support third party, better performance.
Your argument about dev tools is the same as all others are saying. But everybody comfortably ignores the fact that dev tools are built into Chromium and Chrome just happens to use the same, so it is not special in that space.