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He went on to develop Brave!


> Brave

Which is chromium


I've always wondered why he didn't use Firefox as the base for Brave.


They did use Gecko as the base originally:

"In 2015, before we released to users, the Brave browser actually was built on the Gecko engine. However, early on our engineering team realized that Gecko lacked important product features, led to more Web compatibility (webcompat) issues, and overall had poorer performance." (1)

(1) https://brave.com/faq/#chromium-gecko




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