Rob200@lemmy.zipOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Thoughts on lightweight open source browser engines?English
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2 months agoI had acknowledged that it was based on Chromium, do you know of any notable alternatives?
I had acknowledged that it was based on Chromium, do you know of any notable alternatives?
Lately I been using qtwebengine on Falkon browser, but with it being a chromium based engine, was hoping for alternatives, like webkit and others.
Any browsers that currently use them and what are these engines like?
Falkon browser isn’t a bad choice, there is no ad tracking, There’s block auto playing video function built in. All around a solid privacy respecting browser, compared to Firefox and Chrome.
I abandoned Firefox for Falkon for the last 2 years and hadn’t regretted it.
You are right. I guess I was interested in web engines with as much or close to as much functionality as web kit or gecko but maybe some that might be lighter on resource usage as i’m using it.
I heard of one browser engine made in a colab with Samsung and Mozilla called Servo made with rust and that it was meant to be lower resourced then todays browsers engines.
I just installed Epiphany browser earlier today running off of Webkit, it doesn’t have as many built in features as Falcon but for Fediverse sites it works with little issue. But sites with more adverts and javascipt things very well might slow to a crawl quickly on that.