It had, and to this very second continues to have, world-class dev-tools. Which is doubly ironic because I believe that the dev-tools are an independent open source repo from Chromium itself but what I can't say with certainty is how many hooks are required into Chromium itself that would prevent adoption by Firefox
I can't recall so much from the early days but modern Chromium releases are packed with "shiny new toys" that the web-dev crews love. I deeeeeeeeeply appreciate that saying such a thing further entrenches the "Chromium is eating the world" perspective, but I'm just pointing out that web-devs love shiny toys and Chromium seems to ship them on the regular
So, too, do they ship an unholy number of C++ footguns, but omelet-breaking-eggs-etc-etc :-/
I did some experiments with webauth a couple months ago and I was pleasantly surprised that chrome has an authenticator emulator built into dev tools! I mainly use firefox but I had to install chromium for this feature alone, it's super helpful.
I can't recall so much from the early days but modern Chromium releases are packed with "shiny new toys" that the web-dev crews love. I deeeeeeeeeply appreciate that saying such a thing further entrenches the "Chromium is eating the world" perspective, but I'm just pointing out that web-devs love shiny toys and Chromium seems to ship them on the regular
So, too, do they ship an unholy number of C++ footguns, but omelet-breaking-eggs-etc-etc :-/