Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they’re also working on a browser that will use it.

Here’s the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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12 points

i’d like to see a revival of webkit and an open source browser that uses it

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WebKit isn’t dead and is being used by GNOME Web.

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Doesn’t Safari still use WebKit?

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it’s the only one i knew about before the other comment. with more browsers using it, we may not need to build another engine from scratch to broaden competition

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I think this is the argument that the Ladybird people have made:

  • Chrome is dependent on Google ( obviously )
  • Edge is dependent on Google ( based on Chromium )
  • Firefox is dependent on Google ( 80% of revenue )
  • Safari is dependent on Google ( $4 billion from Google )
  • most other browsers are dependent on Google ( use Chromium ) - Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc

Ladybird is intended to be a truly independent browser and especially independent of Google.

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I used luakit for awhile. Really fun to only use keyboard, but definitely lacking features that makes “modern” websites not suck so hard

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