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Isn't Firefox a fork of chromium? Same as Brave?
by bduerst 7y ago
Isn't Firefox a fork of chromium? Same as Brave?
- earenndil 7y agoNo. Firefox has always been separate; it has its roots in netscape navigator, while chromium dates to KHTML.
- loeg 7y agoFirefox preexists Chrome by like, six years (2002, 2008). Firefox stems from Mozilla (1998) stems from Netscape Navigator (1994, originally). Chrome stems from Blink stems from Webkit (Apple's thing, 2001ish) stems from KHTML (KDE, 1998). Amusingly, all the historical parts of the Chrome stack are basically still around. You can install recent versions of Safari and use Webkit, or install recent versions of Konqueror and browse the web with KHTML (although development has lagged since 2016).