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0 pointsbowsamic1y ago0 comments

Sure but you specifically said “funded by” and Gecko dev is funded almost entirely by Google

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How many daily-driveable browser engines we have today?

    - Blink: Chromium and their friends.
    - Webkit: Safari specific, on iOS and macOS only.
    - Gecko: Firefox and its a few forks.

First two are forks of KHTML, which is dead by the end of KDE5 era.

So? You have a cross platform evil and lesser evil (by judging the development financing). What you do?

On the other hand, I don't finance Google by using the browser itself, so that's another plus in my book.

if you use Linux you can run Gnome web which also uses Webkit as it's engine. You can also build webkit yourself if you want to run it on Windows.

Yeah they’re all funded by Google, so by your explicitly stated principle you can’t use any of them

At least, I’m not feeding Google directly with my every keystroke, so that’s a plus. At least in my eyes.

Sometimes we have to be pragmatic, especially if being pedantic is detrimental to our aims.

Happy new year.

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