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Re:Brave launches 1.0 by 1_player on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:55PM (#21529451)
Don't quote me on that, but Gecko must not be the easiest engine to build upon. How many browsers out there are based on Gecko, apart from Firefox?

AFAIK the only choice nowadays is between Chromium and WebKit. I honestly would like to see more WebKit based browsers instead.

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Re:Brave launches 1.0 by judge2020 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:06PM (#21529557)
I wonder if Webkit still have any resources behind using it on Windows since the documentation for building it[0] still says "Windows 8.1" (and I can't find links to the documentation or website SVN repo).

0: https://webkit.org/webkit-on-windows/

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Re:Brave launches 1.0 by BrendanEich on Friday November 15, 2019 @06:17PM (#21549709)
We evaluated WebKit too. Nope, for the Windows gap you cite, among others (e.g., no free-as-in-beer DRM plugin).
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