Other Webbrowser Engines?

[whm1974]

Every time I read Tech news about a brand new Webbrowser, it always uses either Chrome or Firefox Browser Engines.... Even Microsoft Edge is Still Another Copy Of The Same Engine... Or if you will, SACOTE.

 

I am outright Surprised that Microsoft has done this with Edge considering that the Company does have more then enough resources to developed and maintain an entirely new Webbrowser of it's very own...

 

Is there Anyone who has come up with their own unique design?

 

 

[Alexeygridnev1993]

Opera used to have their own engine. But now they also gave up and use Chrome engine. And, of course  Safari is still using Webkit (which qas also used by Chrome previously, but then Google forked it). 

And the reason is: why reinvent a wheel? All browsers have to open the same websites, and very preferably in the same way, and the simplest way to achieve it is to use the same engine

[Alexeygridnev1993]

While Microsoft could have continued pouring money into the old Edge  that would've only prolonged its suffering. Everyone used Edge just to download Chrome/Firefox anyway. And now, they don't waste precious developers' time on something that so few people care about, they just take the Google's engine for free and put a skin on it (and, in the meantime, make Edge actually usable).

[whm1974]

The best designs don't always Win. "Good Enough almost completely beats Better". This explains why Microsoft ended up dominating the Market at first with MS-BASIC, then MS-DOS/Windows, and Office Suites.

 

Microsoft was the first ones with a High Level Programing Language by adapting Dartmouth BASIC to the Altair 8800 Microcomputer.

[Alexeygridnev1993]

6 hours ago, whm1974 said:

The best designs don't always Win. "Good Enough almost completely beats Better". This explains why Microsoft ended up dominating the Market at first with MS-BASIC, then MS-DOS/Windows, and Office Suites.

 

Microsoft was the first ones with a High Level Programing Language by adapting Dartmouth BASIC to the Altair 8800 Microcomputer.

Well, that's not the case with browsers. Google Chrome is actually good. Microsoft dominated the browser market in late 1990s - early 2000s, but IE ended up being so bad that no one wanted it even as a pre-installed option, so, first Firefox and then Chrome overtook it.

[whm1974]

1 minute ago, Alexeygridnev1993 said:

Well, that's not the case with browsers. Google Chrome is actually good. Microsoft dominated the browser market in late 1990s - early 2000s, but IE ended up being so bad that no one wanted it even as a pre-installed option, so, first Firefox and then Chrome overtook it.

IE was OK at first but I later switched to Opera and paid for it since it was so much better and faster at search the Web and loading pages than IE and Netscape was. Also used that on BeOS as well.