You are right. I guess I was interested in web engines with as much or close to as much functionality as web kit or gecko but maybe some that might be lighter on resource usage as i’m using it.

I heard of one browser engine made in a colab with Samsung and Mozilla called Servo made with rust and that it was meant to be lower resourced then todays browsers engines.

I just installed Epiphany browser earlier today running off of Webkit, it doesn’t have as many built in features as Falcon but for Fediverse sites it works with little issue. But sites with more adverts and javascipt things very well might slow to a crawl quickly on that.

I had acknowledged that it was based on Chromium, do you know of any notable alternatives?

Lately I been using qtwebengine on Falkon browser, but with it being a chromium based engine, was hoping for alternatives, like webkit and others.

Any browsers that currently use them and what are these engines like?

If it keeps out the ai features in the latest updates and the ad networks, then that fork and some of the other Firefox forks might be a good option.

I get it but, if it’s maintained by a different party then Google, even then there’s going to be some conflict of interest compared to Google’s Chrome and Brave’s Chrome for instance.

But if you would rather use the ai features in Firefox, then have at it. Falkon doesn’t have any mention of ai in it’s settings or features. Nor does it have an ad network. Sometimes you got to look at more then just “it’s based on Cromium.”

When I first started using it it was using a different engine. If it’s using Chromium and it scares some of you, then don’t use it. But with Mozilla doing that they are doing now days with ai and ad networks, does it even make a difference now, between using Firefox and Chrome?

It goes without saying, but I’ll say it.

Don’t use a digital id, nor a digital social security number or anything like it because a cop may run into something incriminating against your on your phone, something as simple as a notification could be enough.

If you just use a physical card/I’d they can only get that specific information and nothing more without looking to look at other sources.

I will say tho, having a digital id as backup might come in handy if you don’t have the physical cards on you, but be responsible about what notifications and images and other data you have accessible on your phone to them.

It uses qtwebengine, but it does have it’s own ui (making it less like Chrome) and some of its ownfeatures.

But which would you rather have an ai littered browser by default (Firefox), or use Blink.

Considering it’s just a rendering engine, and that the browser has adblocking built in,doesn’t automatically scream to me privacy invading. Unlike in Google Chrome you can even auto clear your browser history on close. The browser itself isn’t based on Chromium, when it first launched it had a different rendering engine.

This sounds like a good concept.

Falkon browser isn’t a bad choice, there is no ad tracking, There’s block auto playing video function built in. All around a solid privacy respecting browser, compared to Firefox and Chrome.

I abandoned Firefox for Falkon for the last 2 years and hadn’t regretted it.

I thought they were already doing this last year.

Simple. They won’t have to spend as much money. Of course them saving money won’t translate to lower Nintendo Switch prices, because they’l actually be making more money by keeping prices the same.

and as long that mainstream consumers aren’t boycotting Nintendo on record profits from these changes related to ai, then Nintendo and other companies will keep the prices the same, aside from raising them in the future.