• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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        1 year ago

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

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

        • krakenx@lemmy.world
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          1 year 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.

      • Blorper59@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

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

        Pihole will be unaffected.