Falkon is chromibun based. I would recommand staying with firefox
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Developers do not look for reports on social media, so they will not see it and all it does is clutter up the feed.
Blink the web engine Chromium is using is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit,which was originally a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. So it is other way around. You are right I the sense that the biggest contributor to WebKit is Google.
..Wait, it's all KDE?
It was and we are super-proud of that. But a lot has been contributed from Apple and Google. That said, it is the reason the engine is still LGPL.
@Bro666 there was a 1980s software millionaire whose web site's links wouldn't work right with Konqueror because his link-decoration code violated the DTD spec, relying on Firefox's quirks mode. I pointed this out via email and his response was "My code is correct and no one uses Konqueror any more and it's garbage anyway!" — at roughly the very moment Apple swallowed KHTML.
He was a time traveler boycotting Google with a Firefox-only website before they could even come out with Chromium
Yikes
Yeah, I found out about this tidbit of history not too long ago and I think it's really neat!
Goes to show how open development is often at the forefront of innovation, or when it isn't, it ends up better than the crippled proprietary counterparts.
Thank ~~god~~ iGNUcius for copyleft, otherwise the web landscape could be much grimmer today
thst's super fucking cool
I thought Falkon has been more of a dead parrot for quite a while, hasn't it?
It is still updated judging by the git commits. Btw Konqueror gets new releases as well.
I'm no programmer, but are those updates real ones (improving security, functions, etc.) or is it more like keeping up with modernised libraries throughout the system? I believe this is the case at least with Konqueror.
I think the latter