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by sph 199 days ago

New browser starter pack:

* Fancy logo

* Blink engine so it's basically Chrome like every other alternative browser

* Mention of AI somewhere on the website

* Minimal UI clearly inspired by Safari

* Heartfelt promises of speed and privacy

* macOS only

3 comments

frizlab 199 days ago

The engine of this browser is Webkit.

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integricho 199 days ago

Anyone can slap a fancy UI on an existing engine and claim they made a browser. So many of them exist now, they don't matter anymore at all. This one will die in the crowd like every other wannabe browser. Build your own goddamn engine and then claim you made a browser, at least the Servo and Ladybird devs are doing some concrete work, not just pointless marketing and empty claims.

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eviks 197 days ago

> Anyone can slap a fancy UI

It's the opposite, anyone can slap an existing good engine to a bad UI that works well on many sites because it already works for some major browser. Almost no one can slap a fancy UI, and none of these newly sprangeld browsers offer any, they are way closer to the basic fails for Chrome/Firefox where even changing the default keybinds in an exercise in futility, and all the other stuff is similarly bad - for example, in this browser while the have vertical tabs, the 9to5mac example website doesn't fit the tab name and has the … symbol, which is not fancy at all on its own (fancy UI would be something like non-space-wasting fade out instead of text replacement), but also is part of the same low-density-whitespace-wasteful UI nonsense you see everwhere else - while there is enough whitespace in the tabbbar to fit whole ~two next words "...Mac Rumours breaki"

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Suppafly 198 days ago

>The engine of this browser is Webkit.

Thank you, I looked all over their site trying to figure out which engine they were using.

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frizlab 198 days ago

My pleasure!

It’s hidden in the first answer in the FAQ at the bottom.

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eviks 197 days ago

It's "hidden"in the very first feature point

> Fast by design … powered by WebKit.