mecfs@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 4 months ago"We've won, but at what cost?"lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square316fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months 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]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoClose. Chromium uses Blink which was originally a fork of WebKit. I have no idea how much they’ve diverged since then.
minus-squareivn@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThe fork was 11 years ago, so a lot. So much that they are considered different engines now.
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.