• @coolmojo@lemmy.world
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          99 months ago

          Have a look at Otter browser It aims to replicate the old interface. It is using QtWebEngine as Presto was closed source. It is in development since 10 years now. And it is open source.

          • baduhai
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            59 months ago

            QtWebEngine is Chromium :(

            It’s Chromium all the way down.

            • @coolmojo@lemmy.world
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              19 months ago

              Qt WebEngine uses code from the Chromium project. However, it is not containing all of Chrome/Chromium: Binary files are stripped out Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out, Source

              • baduhai
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                9 months ago

                While that’s one of the reasons I don’t want to use chromium, it’s not actually the main reason, if so I’d just use Ungoogled Chromium. I just want more web engines, and I dont want google to monopolise the internet.

                • @coolmojo@lemmy.world
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                  19 months ago

                  It is super hard to create a new web engine, especially when one company is influencing the web standards and most web developers are only testing against that because of market share. This is why we ended up with four active web engines. In alphabetical order: Blink, Gecko, Goanna, WebKit. Obviously some are related: WebKit started out as the fork of KDE’s KHTML and Blink is the fork of WebKit. Goanna is the fork of the Unified XUL Platform that was forked from Mozilla’s Gecko.

    • Clay_pidgin
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      19 months ago

      Vivaldi is made by many of the same people with similar features and vibe. It’s also chromium-based, though.