No, Chrome is based on Safari.
Apple took khtml, which was developed by the KDE project, and created Webkit. Google then forked Webkit and created Chrome with it.
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bamboo@lemm.ee 11 months agoSafari is the browser with the second highest usage share and is not in any way based on chrome. It’s limited to Apple platforms though, so other users can’t switch without buying new devices.
MostlyHarmless@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
bamboo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
WebKit and Blink are extremely far diverged at this point, even though Blink was originally a fork of WebKit. Features like sandboxing and process isolation vary significantly on the backend, and feature support for web pages varies greatly. Ask any web developer if they can rely on new web features in chrome also being present in safari, they can’t.
bamboo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
WebKit and Blink are extremely far diverged at this point, even though Blink was originally a fork of WebKit. Features like sandboxing and process isolation vary significantly on the backend, and feature support for web pages varies greatly. Ask any web developer if they can rely on new web features in chrome also being present in safari, they can’t.
raptir@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Yeah, telling me I can switch from Linux to MacOS is not exactly a solution.
That said, Apple took money from Google to make Google the default on Safari. While I don’t think Apple will crumble without Google’s money, $18 billion certainly more than funds the development of Safari.