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Firefox is the only way. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 105 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Chrome was not always based on chromeium. Chrome was based on Apple WebKit until 2013 when they forked WebKit and made the Blink engine.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago*

    Chromium has always existed. Originally it was wrapping web kit and later they forked web kit into blink and diverged from Web kit. Chromium is a level above the engine.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Wha- hold up... I'm not sure I understand...

    Chrome was based on WebKit?

    I'm not aware about the old stuff as much so if someone could fill me in...

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    In more history, WebKit is a fork of KHTML. That's the reason why WebKit itself is open source.

    Apparently there hasn't been active maintenance since 2016 though and it's officially dead since this year. RIP

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Remember Konqueror? That's KDE's web browser, which still uses KHTML. I should try it out again and see how it's held up.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure, but didn't Konqueror switch to qtwebkit at some point? Or was that a different qt-based browser?

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