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Re:Give Firefox a chance by floatboth on Sunday June 23, 2019 @01:29PM (#20257166)
No, WebKit is an engine. It ships with small demo browsers for some platforms (minibrowser for gtk, at least) but that's it.

You might be confused by Apple calling its nightly Safari builds "WebKit technical preview" or whatever. It (used to) show up as "WebKit.app", but it's literally Apple Safari.

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Re:Give Firefox a chance by saagarjha on Sunday June 23, 2019 @02:33PM (#20257694)
"Safari" is a proprietary browser that uses WebKit, which is open source. Safari Technology Preview (purple Safari) and WebKit.app (black Safari) are just Safari, but with the WebKit swapped out through various methods. Oh, and MiniBrowser works on macOS as well.
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Re:Give Firefox a chance by floatboth on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:28PM (#20258458)
> WebKit.app (black Safari) are just Safari, but with the WebKit swapped out through various methods

yes, that's exactly what I said

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Re:Give Firefox a chance by saagarjha on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:33PM (#20258489)
You seemed to conflate Safari Technology Preview with the WebKit nightlies, when they are in fact different things and structured differently and used for different things (the former acts much more like a "standalone Safari" than does the latter, which is essentially just the WebKit frameworks loaded in to your existing Safari).
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Re:Give Firefox a chance by latexr on Sunday June 23, 2019 @02:03PM (#20257459)
> You might be confused by Apple calling its nightly Safari builds "WebKit technical preview" or whatever. It (used to) show up as "WebKit.app", but it's literally Apple Safari.

Probably that, yes.

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