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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“OMG this is crazy but in light of the looming Google antitrust stuff did y’all realize there are other browsers out there??”

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

realize there are other browsers out there?

You meant search engines?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ya there’s only 2 types of browsers :( chromium and Firefox based. There’s a total monopoly on that

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Safari (webkit) and there are two currently trying to get into existence

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There are several browsers, but the hard part being discussed here is the browser engine. The current promising up and comers are LibWeb for Ladybird and Servo which is now under management of the Linux Foundation; super exciting.

But as far as just browsers, I recommend the Firefox fork, zen browser. The interface is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Zen Browser + uBlock Origin + Startpage ✓

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well there's Ladybird which is open source and uses its own browser engine. Can't seem to remember or find the other one though, but this one is more mature iirc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don’t think ladybird is released in any way that can be used by anyone. It’s still in development

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Servo should be vastly more advanced and it's nowhere near ready.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, Safari (Webkit) too but nobody likes that one.

Btw, Google's Blink is based on Webkit which is based on KDE's KHTML. Else, there is Gecko (Firefox) and was Trident (MS Internet Explorer). Oh, and QtWebkit but it's slow in JS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

GNOME Web (formerly known as Epiphany) also uses the Safari WebKit.