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1. clivedup · 1791025056 · focus · HN ↗

   > We also chose to build it the hard way by not forking Chromium.

   Bad call, because it's genuinely too hard for someone the size of Kagi, as they've discovered.

   There's room for a Chromium fork that has a better reputation than Brave. (I use Brave, and it's great, but I realise many people don't want to use it.)

   1. ajdude · 1791025221 · focus · HN ↗

      I use Orion (because pay for Orion Plus to support them) specifically because it is not a fork of Chromium.

      We need more rendering engines out there in the wild, as the situation with chrome's monopoly is already critically dire.

      1. clivedup · 1791026106 · focus · HN ↗

         I agree. But I think it'll take someone bigger than Kagi to achieve that.

         Mozilla have more momentum, experience, and funding, but still struggle.

         1. aucisson_masque · 1791095563 · focus · HN ↗

            They never made the rendering engine. It’s open source.

            I don’t see any more difficulty between being a chromium browser or being a WebKit browser.

            1. TingPing · 1791156701 · focus · HN ↗

               The main thing difference was WebExtension support. Upstream WebKit on Linux didn’t support them. However it will very soon.

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