Can someone please explain what this means ?
it means i just dont believe brave browser is real, but someone else can probably tell you what i truly meant!
There are 3 browsers. Everything else is just a reskin.
This is Lynx erasure.
then what’s konqueror?
WebKitSorry that’s not correct. It used to be WebKit via QtWebKit, but now it’s Chromium via QtWebEngine.
Fun fact: the KHTML code base that was developed for Konqueror was forked by Apple to create WebKit, and Webkit has been adopted by Google for Blink, so Konqueror is kind of the origin point for all current web browsers except Firefox (which is descended from Netscape).
I wouldn’t call all of them simple reskins. Some actually improve on the browser with privacy features and stuff (like brave, but it also ruins it by adding crypto crap).
And only 2 main lineages left, Chromium and WebKit are both KHTML descendants
You could argue Goanna is its own thing by now. It was forked from Gecko, but Blink/Chromium was initially forked from WebKit.
There’s also Servo and LibWeb, but I don’t think either is really usable yet.
Do you think any of these qualify as anything more than hobby projects?
I’m not sure I’d consider a single-threaded browser application to be relevant in 2026. IE7 still technically exists too, and if you really wanted to you could run Netscape Navigator, but I wouldn’t count them among functional current browsers.
What about LadyBirdEdit: that’s LibWeb
I won’t entirely disagree with the vibecode part, but I don’t think Lunduke is a particularly trustworthy source.
no, that is exactly the issue. The fact that Andreas Kling is willing to interact with lunduke, dhh, and similar people on a semi-regular basis is not a great look.
Oh, that podcast was with Kling, not about him. That is unfortunate.
I remember there was some drama with Ladybird after some he/him pronouns were changed to they/them in the (instructions?). Back then, from my very not-involved point of view, it seemed to come from some sort of misunderstanding/improper pull request. Maybe I was hopeful.
… this lends more credence to my hope being misplaced.
There’s also QtWebEngine, WebKitGTK+ and all the tui browsers.
QtWebEngine
which is Chromium
WebKitGTK+
which is WebKit
and all the tui browsers
…yeah, and I’m sure someone out there still has a working telegraph, but I wouldn’t list it as part of telecommunications infrastructure.
hey, links2 is still alive and well, and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly. There’s also a few that are actually either chromium or gecko. avoid those.
… and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly.
Oh good, so they’re kind of on the level of Netscape Navigator.
around and about sorta. still no javascript tho
I do use links2 sometimes for looking things up on wikipedia or reading blogs or something like that, easier than starting a gui browser. but the usecase is a tad niche
You meant Konqueror, the other WebKit browser
QtWebEngine is just Chromium.
But yes, Links and Lynx are real.
According to my app this was the boobth post
Time for the mods to lock the community indefinitely now. Maybe we can reach 6969 subscribers too? 👉👈
Thank you for posting boob tracking content!
looks like an unattributed pmjv
It is indeed and is dedicated to the public domain
There is still a distinction between something being public domain so not needing to ask permission and giving attribution which is always a nice thing to do.
What? Did they shut down or something? It’s definitely a real browser, just scummy as fuck.
Probably nonexistent as in
“Wait, it’s all just chromium?”
“Always has been.”
It’s non-exostent as in Unix_surrealism
The being ate Brave.
Unfortunately Brave does exist, but you still shouldn’t use it. They run a crypto thing, they built AI into their browser, and have done shady stuff in the past.
I hear Vivaldi is great, if you want a Chrome-like.
Their CEO has donated to anti-gay bills too
Vivaldi is proprietary.
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It doesn’t. You are hallucinating. Or dreaming. Or both. probably both
All browsers are cowardly
