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I've stumbled upon this post before writing this, however, it appears to be unmaintained.

Keep in mind that I'm writing this from a user perspective. As a developer, I have nothing but respect for the team that develops and maintains Sailfish Browser, but as a user I notice mostly one thing: it is slow. I've tried using Firefox on Android, which was marginally better, but still had frequent rendering "pauses" with text appearing blurry for almost a minute before finally moving on (essentially the same thing that plagues Sailfish Browser too). After that, I've downloaded chromium for Android from here and it was much more usable. Good performance without many hitches on my Jolla 1, i.e. a good user experience.

There's a project that adds wayland support to chromium, which might ease the porting process to Sailfish OS; it is currently in the process of being upstreamed.

I think it would be worthwhile to have chromium/blink on the platform, since it has a noticeable performance benefit and users care a lot about a good browsing experience.

What's your take on this? I would like to discuss this from a development perspective as well, e.g. how much of an effort it would be when the ozone wayland platform is completely upstreamed.

Here's some blog posts about the state of upstream wayland support:

• https://blogs.igalia.com/tonikitoo/2016/05/18/chromium-content_shell-running-on-wayland-desktop-weston-compositor/
• https://blogs.igalia.com/tonikitoo/2016/11/14/chromium-ozone-wayland-and-beyond/

I've stumbled upon this post before writing this, however, it appears to be unmaintained.

Keep in mind that I'm writing this from a user perspective. As a developer, I have nothing but respect for the team that develops and maintains Sailfish Browser, but as a user I notice mostly one thing: it is slow. I've tried using Firefox on Android, which was marginally better, but still had frequent rendering "pauses" with text appearing blurry for almost a minute before finally moving on (essentially the same thing that plagues Sailfish Browser too). After that, I've downloaded chromium for Android from here and it was much more usable. Good performance without many hitches on my Jolla 1, i.e. a good user experience.

There's a project that adds wayland support to chromium, which might ease the porting process to Sailfish OS; it is currently in the process of being upstreamed.

I think it would be worthwhile to have chromium/blink on the platform, since it has a noticeable performance benefit and users care a lot about a good browsing experience.

What's your take on this? I would like to discuss this from a development perspective as well, e.g. how much of an effort it would be when the ozone wayland platform is completely upstreamed.

Here's some blog posts about the state of upstream wayland support:

• https://blogs.igalia.com/tonikitoo/2016/05/18/chromium-content_shell-running-on-wayland-desktop-weston-compositor/
• https://blogs.igalia.com/tonikitoo/2016/11/14/chromium-ozone-wayland-and-beyond/