• R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty sure Safari runs on Gecko as well, but still, “Chromium monopoly” is such a ridiculous idea.

    It’s like saying cars have a “V shaped engine monopoly” or clothes have a “YKK zipper monopoly.” Does it exist? Yeah. Does it affect the actual lineup of available products and their differences? Not really.

    • ziggurism@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Gecko? Do you mean Blink?

      Gecko is the name of Firefox’s renderer. Blink is the name of chrome’s. WebKit is the name of Safari’s.

      It would not be correct to say that Safari uses Chrome’s renderer, but since Chrome started as a fork of WebKit, they should have some similarities.

      But there is no genetic relationship whatsoever between Gecko and Safari.