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by pkaler 1627 days ago
Chromium embeds the Blink browser engine which is a fork of WebKit which is a fork of KHTML.

You can read Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda to get the backstory on why they chose KHTML over Gecko. You can also Google for podcasts that Don Melton has been on.

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> on why they chose KHTML

For those who don’t know: “they” is Apple here. Apple forked KHTML to create WebKit. Google contributed to WebKit and later forked it into Blink.