Post #2650930

2026-05-15 18:23 UTC

There are 3 browsers. Everything else is just a reskin.

Replies (7)

@wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-15 19:36

You could argue Goanna is its own thing by now. It was forked from Gecko, but Blink/Chromium was initially forked from WebKit. There’s also Servo and LibWeb, but I don’t think either is really usable yet.

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@sudo@programming.dev 2026-05-15 18:41

There’s also QtWebEngine, WebKitGTK+ and all the tui browsers.

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@turbowafflz@lemmy.world 2026-05-15 21:35

And only 2 main lineages left, Chromium and WebKit are both KHTML descendants

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@anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-16 08:56

then what’s konqueror?

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@lyrial@anarchist.nexus 2026-05-16 08:58

This is Lynx erasure.

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@FlordaMan@lemmy.world 2026-05-16 09:15

I wouldn’t call all of them simple reskins. Some actually improve on the browser with privacy features and stuff (like brave, but it also ruins it by adding crypto crap).

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@read_desert@lemmy.ml 2026-05-18 21:51

Ladybird is being built from the ground up right now, looks promising. Too bad every site under the sun bows to chromium and even when they don’t follow web standards they still become the defacto defaulto standard. Ugh.

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