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Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today embraced Google's Chromium open source project for Edge development on the desktop. The company also announced Edge is coming to all supported versions of Windows and to macOS. Microsoft wants to make some big changes, which it says will happen "over the next year or so." The first preview builds of the Chromium-powered Edge will arrive in early 2019, according to Microsoft.
And yes, this means Chrome extension support.
And yes, this means Chrome extension support.
KDE Konqueror.
KHTML (Konqueror) was first. Apple forked that to make Webkit. Google initially used Webkit and then forked Webkit to make Blink.
Blink powers Chrome/Chromium, Opera, and the future versions of Edge. It's based upon Webkit.
Webkit powers Safari. It's based on KHTML.
KHTML powers Konqueror. It's something the KDE team hacked together from chewing gum, old razor blades, and discarded coffee grinds.
Discarded coffee grinds powers Mr Coffee. They're based on coffee beans.
You see where this is going.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
You are an idiot. Install ublock origin on chrome, open devtools (network tab), load some page and see how many network requests do not get executed (they fail immediately with net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT error).