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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Firefox isn't based on WebKit. Maybe you're thinking Safari.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ultimately you really only have KHTML (what Webkit was forked from), Gecko, Triton (IE classic), and I can't recall what the new (now dead) engine in IE11 was called. The rest are forks, mostly of Webkit/KHTML.

I guess there's Ladybird and Servo too, but they are a way still from being used as a daily driver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I doubt that's what they meant since Safari currently uses WebKit. But yeah, maybe they meant how WebKit is a fork of KHTML and Chrome is a fork of WebKit.