WebKit and Chromium are hard forks. The former is a fork of KHTML, and the latter is a hard fork of the former. However, in recent years I’ve only seen soft forks, and as for hard forks, I’ve only seen one with Pale Moon, which hard forked Gecko and named it Goanna due to disagreements with the direction the Mozilla Project was taking.

But why wouldn’t any organization make a hard fork, whether of WebKit, Chromium, Firefox, or another browser not based on the three mentioned above?

  • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    a browser written entirely in rust, should be fun on redoxos when it matures (all rust operating system with a mini kernel)

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      2 hours ago

      Whoa, didn’t know about redox os. Neat.

      The preview on their site make it looks like it’s pretty usable for basic daily use (even has balatro). I’m gonna try it. Thanks !