There are other alternative browsers that most readers will know of, like Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera. The figure below shows a timeline of the currently-available engines. You also have Mozilla Firefox’s Gecko, developed by a company that is deeply dependent upon Google’s money to survive, and Apple’s WebKit, another Big Tech browser engine. This means that Microsoft’s browser is an outpost for the Chrome project (through its reliance on an open source project known as Chromium. In 2019 Microsoft’s browser, Edge, moved from its own rendering engine, called EdgeHTML, to Google’s Blink. Transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interactive visual representation on a user's device. Browser engines are a core part of what makes a browser able to render the code of the web into an easily human-readable format as the linked page states they: These few browsers have consolidated around even fewer browser engines. When it comes to the browser options that you have on a desktop or laptop, your mainstream user may think the only real choice is between products from Big Tech. With the recent addition of Mojeek as a search engine option in Pale Moon, we wanted to take a deeper dive into this longstanding independent open source browser.

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