On: Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?

[achempion]

Orion uses webkit, not sponsored by ad revenue

[wave-function → achempion]

> webkit, not sponsored by ad revenue

It is — AFAIK, Google pays Apple enough money for the default search engine deal to cover Safari development along with all its components.

[solardev → wave-function]

Does Apple do most Webkit development too, not just Safari? I thought it was originally spun off from KHTML. Did Apple take over most of the development at some point?

[pandemic_region → achempion]

Sadly no linux support :-(

[phartenfeller → pandemic_region]

It has since a few days : https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/kag-orion-web-browser-co...

[dartharva → pandemic_region]

GNOME Web (formerly Epiphany) is also based on Webkit: https://apps.gnome.org/Epiphany/

Though I guess it's not extensible so you'll have to get some other way to block ads.

[Broge → pandemic_region]

Linux soon