To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I’ve heard good things about internet explorer.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    5 months ago

    There are only two browsers now, chrome(ium) and firefox. Everything else is one of those with some changes.

    Firefox based is usually the way to go if you want to avoid anything Google related.

    Otherwise, they’re on par with each other, imo.

    • Drusenija@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Isn’t Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can’t exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).

      • Bipta@kbin.social
        41·
        5 months ago

        Safari is different from Chromium and Firefox but not widely available and pretty similar to Chromium in being webkit-based.

        • palordrolap@kbin.social
          1·
          5 months ago

          Some Linux packages have WebKit as a dependency and that often has something called MiniBrowser installed as, well, precisely what it says it is. Not sure if it’s available on Windows, but it’s OK in a pinch.

          There are a few other lesser known browsers, not in the main families, that are currently in development too.

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Originally there was KHTML, developed by KDE for the konquerer browser. This was then forked by Apple to WebKit which is used by safari and gnome web. Google then forked WebKit to blink, the browser engine chromium uses.