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Spartan-S63 on July 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Perplexity Comet

I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!

xnx on July 9, 2025 | [–]

I thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413

sea-gold on July 9, 2025 | | [–]

Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/

samrus on July 9, 2025 | [–]

anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space

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