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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•1 month agoAll good modern browsers are based either on firefox or chromium if I’m not terribly misinformed
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 month agoWebkit is Chromium (or at least, Chromium is Webkit, since the inheritance goes in the other direction). The only 1 browser engine that is a completely separate and independent codebase from Chrome is Firefox’s. (1 aside from extremely niche/unusable stuff like Lynx)
minus-squarestinerman [Ohio]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 month agoClose. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoThe fork was 11 years ago, so a lot. So much that they are considered different engines now.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 month agofair enough, although I’m not sure that falls in the “good” category :P
All good modern browsers are based either on firefox or chromium if I’m not terribly misinformed
I think Safari is WebKit.
Webkit is Chromium (or at least, Chromium is Webkit, since the inheritance goes in the other direction).
The only 1 browser engine that is a completely separate and independent codebase from Chrome is Firefox’s.
(1 aside from extremely niche/unusable stuff like Lynx)
Close. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.
The fork was 11 years ago, so a lot. So much that they are considered different engines now.
fair enough, although I’m not sure that falls in the “good” category :P