brave rule
(midwest.social)
196There are 3 browsers. Everything else is just a reskin.
And only 2 main lineages left, Chromium and WebKit are both KHTML descendants
You could argue Goanna is its own thing by now. It was forked from Gecko, but Blink/Chromium was initially forked from WebKit.
There's also Servo and LibWeb, but I don't think either is really usable yet.
Do you think any of these qualify as anything more than hobby projects?
I'm not sure I'd consider a single-threaded browser application to be relevant in 2026. IE7 still technically exists too, and if you really wanted to you could run Netscape Navigator, but I wouldn't count them among functional current browsers.
There's also QtWebEngine, WebKitGTK+ and all the tui browsers.
QtWebEngine
which is Chromium
WebKitGTK+
which is WebKit
and all the tui browsers
...yeah, and I'm sure someone out there still has a working telegraph, but I wouldn't list it as part of telecommunications infrastructure.
QtWebEngine is just Chromium.
But yes, Links and Lynx are real.
Unfortunately Brave does exist, but you still shouldn't use it. They run a crypto thing, they built AI into their browser, and have done shady stuff in the past.
I hear Vivaldi is great, if you want a Chrome-like.
Vivaldi is proprietary.
What? Did they shut down or something? It's definitely a real browser, just scummy as fuck.
Probably nonexistent as in
"Wait, it's all just chromium?"
"Always has been."
The being ate Brave.
?
It doesn't. You are hallucinating. Or dreaming. Or both. probably both
All browsers are cowardly
