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Kagi is Porting its Orion Web Browser to Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

Edit: wow the dev sucks

[-] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 10 points 5 days ago

While the software is exciting, I'm not exactly keen due to the controversy

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

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

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Tbh way more than that, good link above

https://programming.dev/post/26426207/15416301

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days 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

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