They really should be a LOT clearer about it on their homepage, 99.99% of "original" browsers tend to be a wrapper around Chromium.
And as someone who actually lived through the "IE is the standard, deal with it" - age, I refuse to use any Chromium based browser out of principle. We need more actually viable engines in use or Google will just keep dictating what's allowed on the internet by the fact that Chrome has something like 90% market share on desktop browsers.
LLMs are good for things you know how to do, but can't be arsed to. Like small tools with extensive use of random APIs etc.
For example I whipped together a Steam API -based tool that gets my game library and enriches it with data available in maybe 30 minutes of active work.
The LLM (Cursor with Gemini Pro + Claude 3.7 at the time IIRC) spent maybe 2-3 hours on it while I watched some shows on my main display and it worked on my second screen with me directing it.
Could I have done it myself from scratch like a proper artisan? Most definitely. Would I have bothered? Nope.
I use Grok with repomix to review my code and it tends to give decent answers and is a bit better at giving actual actionable issues with code examples than, say Gemini 2.5 pro.
But the lack of a CLI tool like codex, claude code or gemini-cli is preventing it from being a daily driver. Launching a browser and having to manually upload repomixed content is just blech.
With gemini I can just go `gemini -p "@repomix-output.xml review this code..."`
I asked it to examine a codebase and it went lightning-fast into full refactoring mode and started "fixing" stuff - while profusely apologising because it couldn't get the code to compile :D
Currently the best way to use Gemini CLI is to instruct Claude to use it when examining large codebases. Gemini investigates -> generates markdown summary -> Claude uses summary to direct itself without wasting context.
And as someone who actually lived through the "IE is the standard, deal with it" - age, I refuse to use any Chromium based browser out of principle. We need more actually viable engines in use or Google will just keep dictating what's allowed on the internet by the fact that Chrome has something like 90% market share on desktop browsers.
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