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I am not entirely sure what a rebasing fork is, but it sounds like there are only three practical choices, from Apple, Google, and Mozilla. I haven't used Netsu

I am not entirely sure what a rebasing fork is, but it sounds like there are only three practical choices, from Apple, Google, and Mozilla. I haven't used Netsurf and the rest but it looks very interesting. My main worry is that some limitation may cause certain websites to break in unknown ways - that could be a huge problem when doing things like logging into a bank account.

SahAssar 5y ago
To browse the modern web you have those three choices, yes. You could probably still get by on the EdgeHTML based Edge, but support will wind down over the coming years. If you manage to even load your banks website in netsurf that's impressive. For me it crashes even loading wikipedia, and it does not support JS at all, so basically all interactivity on the web besides forms and links is not supported. I don't think anyone, even netsurfs developers recommend even trying to use netsurf as your main browser for things like banking. A "rebasing fork" is something like waterfox and similar projects that essentially have modifications to one of the big three engines and periodically pull in all the changes the source engine did. A lot of the chromium based browsers do this to be able to include modifications to chromium in places where it is not officially supported. A non-rebasing fork would for example be when google forked webkit (to create blink which is a core component of chromium), which took a much more divergent path. I forgot to mention two other engines that might be interesting to read about: kHTML (the original source for webkit so it is chromiums grandfather in a sense. Not developed since 2016) and Goanna (a fork of firefox from before firefox quantum. It is developed but last I heard they couldn't keep up with new standards and security. Development seems a bit chaotic).

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I am not entirely sure what a rebasing fork is, but it sounds like there are only three practical choices, from Apple, Google, and Mozilla. I haven't used Netsu

by throwawaysea 5y ago

SahAssar 5y ago
To browse the modern web you have those three choices, yes. You could probably still get by on the EdgeHTML based Edge, but support will wind down over the coming years. If you manage to even load your banks website in netsurf that's impressive. For me it crashes even loading wikipedia, and it does not support JS at all, so basically all interactivity on the web besides forms and links is not supported. I don't think anyone, even netsurfs developers recommend even trying to use netsurf as your main browser for things like banking. A "rebasing fork" is something like waterfox and similar projects that essentially have modifications to one of the big three engines and periodically pull in all the changes the source engine did. A lot of the chromium based browsers do this to be able to include modifications to chromium in places where it is not officially supported. A non-rebasing fork would for example be when google forked webkit (to create blink which is a core component of chromium), which took a much more divergent path. I forgot to mention two other engines that might be interesting to read about: kHTML (the original source for webkit so it is chromiums grandfather in a sense. Not developed since 2016) and Goanna (a fork of firefox from before firefox quantum. It is developed but last I heard they couldn't keep up with new standards and security. Development seems a bit chaotic).