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    10 hours ago

    Also for completion of the taxonomical reference above, Safari GNOME Web and Konqueror use the actual WebKit rendering engine that branched from KDE Plasma in 2001.

    Chrome, Edge, and all the Chromium-based browsers use “Blink,” which branched from the WebKit project in 2013 and evolved separately. It’s different enough now to be considered distinct (developers supporting these browsers need no reminder) but a portion of the original properties are still shared.

    Most of the time when people say “webkit” they’re referring to Google’s Blink engine, but the original WebKit project is still around and lives on in a handful of evergreen browsers that bear mention.