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[โ€“] kofe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what are some non-google based browsers?

[โ€“] syboxez@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is basically the only non-WebKit/Blink browser out there.

[โ€“] rms1990@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is WebKit bad? Gnome uses it for their browser

[โ€“] syboxez@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

WebKit is not inherently bad. The thing that makes it not great in my opinion actually has nothing to do with the tech in this instance, but instead has to do with monopolistic practices from both Apple (who directly uses and develops WebKit) and Google (who forked WebKit into Blink).

Using Gecko browsers (Firefox and co.) en masse tells website operators that they should develop for that other option and officially support it.

[โ€“] ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depending on the operating system this could be Safari on OSX, Firefox, Brave on basically anything, Opera, if it still exists, Konqueror on Linux (fun fact: I think most current browser engines spawned from that), or lynx if you're hardcore

[โ€“] mkll@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it an independent fork?

[โ€“] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's based on Chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/README.md

This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux. In particular, it fetches and syncs code from the projects defined in package.json and src/brave/DEPS:

  • Chromium
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  • brave-core
    • Maintains patches for 3rd party Chromium code.
[โ€“] aaaantoine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Opera still exists but it's based on chromium now.

[โ€“] kaioviski@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Nyxt is not Chromium-based. Still too experimental to be used as single/main browser, but has some very interesting concepts.

[โ€“] albert180@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Nyxt uses WebKit