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“Originally” if I recall correctly, Chrome was a fork of firefox right? That is a long time ago though!

• msla 7y ago
  Chrome was never a fork of Firefox. If anything, it was a fork of Konqueror.
• jm4 7y ago
  Nope. It was a fork of WebKit which was a fork of KHTML, the engine powering Konqueror. KHTML was developed by the KDE team. Edit: It was widely speculated that Apple would use gecko for Safari and a shock when they announced they would use the relatively little known KHTML engine. The decision was based on KHTML having much cleaner code. I haven't looked at the Mozilla code in many years, but it was pretty gnarly back then. Lots of old cruft from the Netscape days. In comparison, KHTML was beautiful.
  • rusk 7y ago
    I went looking into this, and it appears that I was confused. Google was a big contributor to Firefox in the early naughties, which is the period I was thinking of. Chrome didn't come out until a good while later.
  • cpeterso 7y ago
    Ken Kocienda's book "Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs" has more details about the Safari team's evaluation of Mozilla code and KHTML. Ken was engineer #2 on the Safari team.
• microtherion 7y ago
  Chrome started out as a fork of Safari, or at least WebKit.
  • kienkien 7y ago
    Safari was never opensource
    • microtherion 7y ago
      Yes, but WebKit was, and "Safari" might be more widely known as a name.