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

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> 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.

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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?