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Re: [LUG] Lug meet Saturday
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] Lug meet Saturday
- From: Grant Phillips-Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:31:06 +0100
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 19:04, comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 19/04/2020 07:58, Neil wrote:
> > Thanks for all that information. My copy of Waterfox Classic also worked
> > so it would seem that that can be added to the list. I had never
> > realised just how many browsers there are.
>
> That's a bit more nuanced than you might think as under the covers there
> are only 3 or 4 main rendering engines - the new Edge, Vivaldi, Opera,
> Brave and many others are simply wrapped around the Chrome engine
> (blink). Seamonkey and Waterfox/Palemoon _are_ Firefox (gecko). Similar
> story in Apple land where everything is webkit.
Blink?
/me quickly goes and has a read up
How the hell did I miss that?! I thought Chrom* still used WebKit
under the hood, but apparently not and not for quite some time! :o
> There are _way_ more browsers out there than you think - literally
> hundreds - but surprisingly few differences under the hood if you know
> what you're looking at.
Gotta love it when someone very proudly proclaims they use XYZ because
it's far better/faster/whatever than ABC (that you *know* uses the
same engine).
Grant. :)
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