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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:03PM (#43860411)
Edge exposes its engine to be used in other programs like Skype.
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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by twiss on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:11PM (#43863419)
Edge no longer has its own engine, it's based on Chromium now. When it did, it also wouldn't qualify for STF funding because it wasn't open source.

But yes, a browser engine is potentially an embeddable library, so an open source one might qualify :)

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