<story><title>China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone</title><url>https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/16/chinas-first-fully-homegrown-web-browser-found-to-be-google-chrome-clone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure the marketers made a big deal about it being &amp;quot;fully homegrown&amp;quot;, but the engineers were like &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s a ton of duplicated effort, lets start with an open source browser and work from there.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see if they keep merging in changes from the head of the open source browser or if they continue to diverge over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>subway</author><text>If the way the Kernel is used in China acts as any indicator, it&amp;#x27;ll be a hard fork that gets discarded every few years for a new hard fork.</text></comment>
<story><title>China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone</title><url>https://shanghai.ist/2018/08/16/chinas-first-fully-homegrown-web-browser-found-to-be-google-chrome-clone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jandrese</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sure the marketers made a big deal about it being &amp;quot;fully homegrown&amp;quot;, but the engineers were like &amp;quot;that&amp;#x27;s a ton of duplicated effort, lets start with an open source browser and work from there.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see if they keep merging in changes from the head of the open source browser or if they continue to diverge over time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>Not just a ton of work, but inevitably full of security holes that existing browsers have spent decades fixing</text></comment>