Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser
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.
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i'd like to see a revival of webkit and an open source browser that uses it
WebKit isn't dead and is being used by GNOME Web.
Doesn’t Safari still use WebKit?
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
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.
Safari isn't dependent on Google. It was just a no-brainer for Apple to take a free 20 billion dollars from Google for setting the default search engine to something most users would want anyway.
I used luakit for awhile. Really fun to only use keyboard, but definitely lacking features that makes "modern" websites not suck so hard