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coribuci on April 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)

> Chrome can always be replaced just like Internet Explorer was. Is not even the default on most platforms.

Firefox is more or less Chrome. Edge same. Vivaldi is also Chrome.

> Safari on the other hand... You're not even allowed to replace it with an open source browser.

This is a feature.

jtvjan on April 29, 2020 [–]

> Firefox is more or less Chrome.

Not really. Chrome is closer to Safari, since it uses Blink, which is a fork of WebKit (which in turn is a fork of KHTML used in Konqueror). Firefox uses Gecko, which comes from Netscape.

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