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> But Firefox is one of the few web browsers remaining that isn’t based on Chromium, and it’s now the only major browser to still support uBlock Origin. Neither
by saghm 2mo ago
> But Firefox is one of the few web browsers remaining that isn’t based on Chromium, and it’s now the only major browser to still support uBlock Origin. Neither Safari nor DuckDuckGo—the two other major non-Chromium browsers out there—support uBlock Origin
Does anyone here use DuckDuckGo browser? I've honestly never heard of anyone using it, so I'm pretty surprised to see it categorized as a "major browser". I already basically think of Firefox users (which includes myself) as a pretty tiny minority, so I'm not sure how much smaller you can really get while still being "major".
- davidfischer 2mo agoI use DDG on Android and it works pretty well there. I also saw this line in the article and it's somewhat of a stretch to call DDG either a "major" browser (as you point out) or a "non-Chromium browser". My understanding is it uses the browser engine bundled with the OS on Android/iOS/Mac/Windows and it isn't available for Linux. The wikipedia article on it says: > The core browser functionality is the WebView component provided by the operating system. This means the browser engine is Blink on Android and Windows, and WebKit on iOS and macOS.
- saghm 2mo agoInteresting, thanks for the context! I hadn't realized it was mobile-only, which is probably part of why I hadn't realized it existed. And yeah, it does seem like they maybe didn't know what they were talking about if the engine is literally Blink.