cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1766078
Bromite’s actively maintained fork is going to have its own branding starting from next release according to the latest release notes:
Please note: this is the last release, the next one will be in https://github.com/uazo/cromite
Still don’t understaand why devs prefer fork in instead of improving existing apps and duplicate efforts.
At a quick glance, cromite apparently intends to be much stricter on security and privacy, over usability.
Bromite hasn’t been touched for 6 months, so this is the opposite of duplicating effort, it’s an effort to save the project!
I was not aware of that. Thanks for the information.
It’s exactly what you said: improving an existing app. For certain reasons, the original Bromite branding can’t be used and since the original project’s developer is basically left the project, this was the only way: forking and rebranding. The owner of this fork project was one of the main, most active contributors to Bromite anyway, so it should be fine. I wonder, though if there’s going to be a Cromite WebView as well, because I still use the Bromite WebView… Does anybody know?
Something similar happened with youtube-dlc, allowing yt-dlp to be born