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Safari was not forked from Chrome. Safari's engine, WebKit is an open-source browser engine originally forked from KHTML/KJS. Chrome's current engine, Blink is

• FrustratedMonky 3y ago
  I just meant that they all worked on the same engine. Who forked who, or how's on first. Doesn't change the point, that all 3 big players were all working on same engine (fork of same), so it wasn't MS 'stealing' some small indie open source project. At one point in time, Apple and Google were both working on this, and I had order wrong, Google was the one that forked first to go off and do their own thing that became Chromium, which then went on to be used by Edge. And Safari continued on with different fork, (or maybe trunk? it has split so many times, not really sure how is forking who). "" On April 3, 2013, Google announced that it would produce a fork of WebKit's WebCore component, to be named Blink. Chrome's developers decided on the fork to allow greater freedom in implementing WebCore's features in the browser without causing conflicts upstream, and to allow simplifying its codebase by removing code for WebCore components unused by Chrome. In relation to Opera Software's announcement earlier in the year that it would switch to WebKit by means of the Chromium codebase, it was confirmed that the Opera web browser would also switch to Blink.[44] Following the announcement, WebKit developers began discussions on removing Chrome-specific code from the engine to streamline its codebase.[80] WebKit no longer has any Chrome specific code (e.g., buildsystem, V8 JavaScript engine hooks, platform code, etc.). ""