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WebKit: Active Apple: GNU LGPL, BSD-style: Safari browser, plus all browsers for iOS; [3] GNOME Web, Konqueror, Orion: Blink: Active Google: GNU LGPL, BSD-style: Google Chrome and all other Chromium-based browsers including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Huawei Browser, Samsung Browser, and Opera [4] Gecko: Active Mozilla: Mozilla Public
Blink is by far the most-used browser engine, due to the market share dominance of Google Chrome and the fact that many other browsers are based on the Chromium code. To create Chrome, Google chose to use Apple's WebKit engine. [2] However, Google needed to make substantial changes to the WebKit code to support its novel multi-process browser ...
A lightweight web browser is a web browser that sacrifices some of the features of a mainstream web browser in order to reduce the consumption of system resources, and especially to minimize the memory footprint.
Update: The Next Web has confirmed that Opera, which recently ditched its Presto engine for Webkit, will indeed be using Blink as it's already hitching its proverbial wagon to Chromium.
Apple created the WebKit engine for its Safari browser by forking the KHTML engine of the KDE project. [8] Outside of the European Union, [9] Apple mandates all browsers on iOS to use WebKit as their engine. [10] Google originally used WebKit for its Chrome browser but eventually forked it to create the Blink engine. [11]
WebKit is used as the rendering engine within Safari and was used by Google's Chrome web browser on Windows, macOS, and Android (before version 4.4 KitKat). Chrome used only WebCore, and included its own JavaScript engine named V8 and a multiprocess system. [ 48 ]
Google created V8 for its Chrome browser, and both were first released in 2008. [4] The lead developer of V8 was Lars Bak, and it was named after the powerful car engine. [5] For several years, Chrome was faster than other browsers at executing JavaScript. [6] [7] [8] The V8 assembler is based on the Strongtalk assembler. [9]
A distinctive feature of the engine is that it JIT compiles scripts on a separate CPU core, parallel to the web browser. [1] [2] Though Microsoft has in the past pointed out that other elements, such as rendering and marshalling, are just as important for a browser's overall performance, [3] their improvements to the engine were in response to evolving competing browsers, compared to which IE8 ...