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"Chrome was written from scratch in far less time than it has taken Firefox to change." This doesn't line up with my understanding of the history of Chrome. I
by bluejekyll 8y ago
"Chrome was written from scratch in far less time than it has taken Firefox to change."
This doesn't line up with my understanding of the history of Chrome. I thought Chrome was based on WebKit, therefor definitely not from scratch.
Edit: this post references lifting components from WebKit and Firefox in the initial version, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browse...
- FreeFull 8y agoAnd webkit itself was based on khtml, too
- Xophmeister 8y agoSure, but it's not the rendering engine they're talking about, it's just that Chrome was architected from the start to isolate tabs/windows to a process (containing its own renderer) each.
- bluejekyll 8y agoThat’s the context in that section, sure, but it’s not what I take away from that statement. Point being, even Chrome would have needed to make WebKit compatible with that model. I don’t know if there was a lot of work to do that or not. But “from scratch” implies that there was no existing code to refactor, which would appear be a false statement.