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Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)

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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn’t Safari still use WebKit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it's the only one i knew about before the other comment. with more browsers using it, we may not need to build another engine from scratch to broaden competition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think this is the argument that the Ladybird people have made:

Chrome is dependent on Google ( obviously )
Edge is dependent on Google ( based on Chromium )
Firefox is dependent on Google ( 80% of revenue )
Safari is dependent on Google ( $4 billion from Google )
most other browsers are dependent on Google ( use Chromium ) - Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc

Ladybird is intended to be a truly independent browser and especially independent of Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Safari isn't dependent on Google. It was just a no-brainer for Apple to take a free 20 billion dollars from Google for setting the default search engine to something most users would want anyway.