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Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo (linuxiac.com)

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 60 points 5 days ago

This is very encouraging:

Ladybird uses a new browser engine called LibWeb that is being created from scratch by the development team.

Browsers that rely on Chromium / Blink rely on Google. Firefox relies on Google for its funding, so any browser based on Gecko relies on Google. If they can make a browser engine that has rough feature parity with Chromium but doesn''t rely on Google that's very healthy for the web.

[-] Ferk@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I just wanna say that we have Webkit. After Google moved over to Blink Webkit has not stopped development.. and it even has multiple big names behind it (like Apple, but also Valve partnered with WebkitGtk maintainers, and many devices like Amazon's Kindle are heavily invested on it) so it's not gonna go away anytime soon. Specially with Safari being the second most used browser on the web, right after chrome and several times more usage than Firefox.

On Linux we have some browsers making use of Webkit (like Epiphany, Gnome's default browser) that are thus independent from Google or even Mozilla. I'm not sure if there's any browser like that for Windows though.

There's also Netsurf, but development for it is super slow, I've been following them for a couple decades and they still haven't gotten a stable javascript engine, so it only works for the most basic of websites. The plus side is that it's very light on resources, though.