Modern Web Browsers

Links & Sources

• Wikipedia
  • History of the Web Browser
  • List of Web Browsers

Related Notes

• Browsers with Vim Motions

Browser Engines

Wikipedia - Browser Engines

...a core software component of every major web browser. The primary job of a browser engine is to transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interactive visual representation on a User's device.

Most to least prevalent Browser Engines

1. Blink → Chromium
   • downstream engines
     • qt webengine
   • Chrome
   • Edge
   • Brave
   • Lesser-known
     • Qutebrowser
2. Webkit → Safari
   • downstream engines
     • qt webkit
3. Gecko → Firefox
   • LibreWolf
   • Waterfox (wikipedia)
   • GNU icecat (wikipedia)
   • Mullvad browser
   • tor browser

Honorable Mentions

• Goanna (wikipedia)
  • Pale Moon Browser
  • Basilisk Browser

Firefox Privacy Policy Changes

Questions

• Why are people mad about the changes?
• To what degree are these changes genuinely necessary?
• How does the (open source) browser development process complicate things? If at all?

Privacy Policy Sources

• From Mozilla
  • https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/firefox-terms-of-use/
  • The Mozilla Manifesto Addendum
  • Firefox terms of use → https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/
  • Firefox privacy notice → https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice