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> and at those speeds Chrome and Firefox (which is Chrome-based) AFAIK, Firefox is not Chrome-based anywhere. On iOS it uses whatever iOS provides for webview

• yosamino 4y ago
  > AFAIK, Firefox is not Chrome-based anywhere. Not technically "Chrome-based", but Firefox draws graphics using Chrome's Skia graphics engine. Firefox is not completely independent from Chrome.
  • SahAssar 4y ago
    Skia started in 2004 independently of google and was then acquired by google. Calling it "Chrome's Skia graphics engine" makes it sound like it was built for chrome.
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  • bawolff 4y ago
    I feel like counting every library is silly. In any case, i thought chrome used libnss which is a mozilla library, so you could say the reverse as well.
• SahAssar 4y ago
  > Firefox is the only that has their own rendering engine and is cross platform. Interestingly safaris rendering engine is open source and cross platform, but the browser is not. Lots of linux-focused browsers (konquerer, gnome web, surf) and most embedded browsers (nintendo ds & switch, playstation) use webkit. Also some user interfaces (like WebOS, which is running all of LG's TVs and smart refrigerators) use webkit as their renderer.
  • qwerty456127 4y ago
    WebKit itself is a fork of the Konqueror's original KHTML engine by the way.
    • tmccrary55 4y ago
      Browser Genealogy
      • cturtle 4y ago
        Now I want to see the family tree!
        • capableweb 4y ago
          Ask, and you shall receive :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Timeline_of_web_browsers.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Timeline_of_web_browsers.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers has tables as well.
• tinus_hn 4y ago
  IOS uses WebKit which is also what Chrome is based on.
  • Comevius 4y ago
    Chrome uses Blink, which was forked from WebKit's WebCore in 2013. They replaced JavaScriptCore with V8.