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Reddit CEO Digs In Heels As User Outrage Engulfs Website (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by halo5@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting...

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[-] kofe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

what are some non-google based browsers?

[-] syboxez@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Firefox is basically the only non-WebKit/Blink browser out there.

[-] rms1990@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is WebKit bad? Gnome uses it for their browser

[-] syboxez@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

WebKit is not inherently bad. The thing that makes it not great in my opinion actually has nothing to do with the tech in this instance, but instead has to do with monopolistic practices from both Apple (who directly uses and develops WebKit) and Google (who forked WebKit into Blink).

Using Gecko browsers (Firefox and co.) en masse tells website operators that they should develop for that other option and officially support it.

[-] ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Depending on the operating system this could be Safari on OSX, Firefox, Brave on basically anything, Opera, if it still exists, Konqueror on Linux (fun fact: I think most current browser engines spawned from that), or lynx if you're hardcore

[-] mkll@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Brave is Chromium based

[-] ReaderTunesOctopus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't it an independent fork?

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's based on Chromium https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/README.md

This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux. In particular, it fetches and syncs code from the projects defined in package.json and src/brave/DEPS:

Chromium

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brave-core

Maintains patches for 3rd party Chromium code.