• KaRunChiy@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    People are too wussy to use waterfox or at least firefox. Just gotta have a chrome variant I guess

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        That is mostly but not entirely true, Firefox has a few variants of its own, alternatives do exist.

        I did some research into the topic not long ago, you basically want to choose an engine and from that a browser

        Gecko basd (Firefox)

        • librewolf
        • gnu icecat
        • tor browser
        • mullvad
        • zen browser

        Goanna based (Fork of Gecko)

        • Pale moon
        • Basilisk

        Servo based (very early in development/not for daily use)

        • servo browser
        • verso browser
        • flow browser

        Ladybird: fully independent engine and browser

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          Also waterfox. Can’t forget about waterfox. That said, I’m daily driving Zen at this point and am extremely happy with it

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            Also for completion of the taxonomical reference above, Safari GNOME Web and Konqueror use the actual WebKit rendering engine that branched from KDE Plasma in 2001.

            Chrome, Edge, and all the Chromium-based browsers use “Blink,” which branched from the WebKit project in 2013 and evolved separately. It’s different enough now to be considered distinct (developers supporting these browsers need no reminder) but a portion of the original properties are still shared.

            Most of the time when people say “webkit” they’re referring to Google’s Blink engine, but the original WebKit project is still around and lives on in a handful of evergreen browsers that bear mention.