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catlikesshrimp 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google

Neither Safari nor -B- are opensource. Brave is even chromium based.

EDIT: Brave is opensource

dntbrsnbl 3 months ago | [–]

Brave is definitely open source [1] (under the MPL)? The source for Safari is closed, but their rendering engine is completely open source [2].

[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-core

[2]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

e44858 3 months ago | | [–]

Brave appears to be opensource: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

jmb99 3 months ago | [–]

While Safari is not open source, WebKit is[0].

[0] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

culi 3 months ago | [–]

Yup, Bun uses WebKit. And even credited it for why it was able to achieve such better performance than Node

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