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by abrowne 2421 days ago
GNOME Web (aka Epiphany)¹ does use WebKitGTK², but Falkon³ uses QtWebEngine⁴, which is based on Chromium. Qt integrates "the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick" and does "not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:

- Binary files are stripped out

- Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out

- The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like OpenSSL"

So Falkon is not like Opera and this new Edge which use almost everything from Chromium, including the app shell, but it's web engine is Chromium.

1: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/

2: https://webkitgtk.org/

3: https://www.falkon.org/

4: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine