• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    For anyone interested, as of November 2023:

    Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox. Edit: and Fennec

    Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

    Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

    The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

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      11 months ago

      I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

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      11 months ago

      I use firefox, but Id never head of these alternatives.

      Anyone who does have reviews? Pros, cons, reasons to use them beside variety?

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        11 months ago

        Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.

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      11 months ago

      I thought it was pronounced Kay Melly-on, so I never tried it because of the silly name.

      Pihole will be unaffected.