What’s wrong with a monopoly if it’s an open source monopoly? Linux has a monopoly in a number of areas.
Chromium was created by Google, so Google can certainly set its own rules and, on top of that, create a monopoly.
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It feels very immature being unable to tackle the accent colour limitation.
Not only that, the fact that the launcher sort of cuts the wallpaper on the bottom app dock.
Small details that makes the experience feel immature and just not polished at all.. LineageOS or iodeOS has this covered since the beginning I assume.
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Doesn’t chromium just implement web standards? Are there any examples of chromium going against web standards? I suppose I really don’t see the problem yet.
Chromium was created by Google, so Google can certainly set its own rules and, on top of that, create a monopoly.
While being a source for ungoogled chromium, this article seems to present quite an even argument and informs of the Google web service dependency. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7181-ungoogled-chromium.html.
Quick research to support an assertion that Google web service is not open source might be this part of Google T&C.
Some of our services include software that’s offered under open-source licence terms that we make available to you. Sometimes there are provisions in the open-source licence that explicitly override parts of these terms, so please make sure that you read those licences.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell or lease any part of our services or software.
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If we wouldn’t be wanting any Google-code, we would not use AOSP as a basis for /e/OS, would we?
I’m sure that if e/OS/ developers are able to strip unwanted code from a whole operating system, they are the right ones to do the same to a chromium-browser. 
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Hello AnotherElk,
Thank’s for your answers. I’ll read all this links.
Bruno 
Thanks Gael! I found it a bit of a wake up call in regards to ‘voice to text’ feature. Of course if not on the device it is doubtful privacy wise, and well done to addressing it! 
Hey there are PlainApp (F-Froid and perhaps AppLoung) for this.
Thanks for your announce, i waiting local speech to text and backups tools.
Thanks
The live launch event for v4.0 will be later today 11 June 2026 4:30 PM CEST
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Having followed ladybird, I have now decided it is a dead duck as they used 200,000 lines of A.I. generated code. If Elixir is going to be built using A.I. you can count me out.
@GaelDuval Just been looking at the YouTube channel and in the brief video presentation it talks of backup to the cloud. Would it not be better to be able to add a module to KDE Connect to backup to a data drive on a PC running KDE Plasma for those who can’t afford Cloud storage?
Also, as the move from Google to murena, would it not make more sense to move @murenacorp on YouTube to tilvids.com? Or Vimeo.com?