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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by catlikesshrimp on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:59PM (#43348615)
Neither Safari nor -B- are opensource. Brave is even chromium based.

EDIT: Brave is opensource

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by dntbrsnbl on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:12PM (#43348706)
Brave is definitely open source [1] (under the MPL)? The source for Safari is closed, but their rendering engine is completely open source [2].

[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-core

[2]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by e44858 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:08PM (#43348676)
Brave appears to be opensource: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by jmb99 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:03PM (#43349377)
While Safari is not open source, WebKit is[0].

[0] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

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Re:Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google by culi on Thursday March 13, 2025 @01:22AM (#43350604)
Yup, Bun uses WebKit. And even credited it for why it was able to achieve such better performance than Node
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