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Kagi is Porting its Orion Web Browser to Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev

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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tbh Ladybird is way more interesting. This is just another Webkit based Browser

Edit: wow the dev sucks

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Interesting because of the pronoun drama or for some other reason?

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Probably because they're building their own engine from scratch. Many of the popular browsers these days are built on Chromium or Webkit. The only "big" alternative these days is Gecko, which is what Firefox uses.

This matters because Chromium based browsers make up the vast majority of usage and Google has been using Chromium to drive web standards in the direction they think they should go.

Wikipedia has an overview, but doesn't really cover Chromium's market capture. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines