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Firefox is the only way. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Dapado@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.

[–] exu@feditown.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In more history, WebKit is a fork of KHTML. That's the reason why WebKit itself is open source.

Apparently there hasn't been active maintenance since 2016 though and it's officially dead since this year. RIP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember Konqueror? That's KDE's web browser, which still uses KHTML. I should try it out again and see how it's held up.

[–] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure, but didn't Konqueror switch to qtwebkit at some point? Or was that a different qt-based browser?