Anno domini 2020 Wed, 1 Apr 08:53:36 -0400
 E. Liddell scripsit:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 13:09:49 +0200
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...> wrote:
> 
> > Funny part is, all these "modern" browsers use the same engine - including M$ Edge.
> 
> Not quite.  There are two major engine families in use:
> 
> Blink (used by Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi)
> which forked from Webkit (still used by Safari, Midori, and other minor browsers)
> which forked from KHTML (TDE Konqueror)
> 
> Gecko (used by Firefox, Seamonkey, Waterfox, and various rebrandings) 
> has a fork Goanna (used by Pale Moon).
> 
> There was a lot more diversity a few years ago, though, when Opera and
> Edge (and IE) still had their own engines.  Mozilla was developing a new
> engine for a while, but I don't know its status.
> 
> So if you want to fight the Blink-Webkit monoculture, you're stuck using
> something from the Firefox family . . . or elinks.

Oh, I really was under the impression that gecko has fallen into oblivion. Good to know, there are still some differences.

Nik

> 
> E. Liddell
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