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donatj on Feb 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: I have no capslock and I must scream

Chrome was based on WebKit, Safaris codebase. They’re still very close cousins despite Chrome hard forking to Blink about 8 years ago. WebKit it’s was a fork of KHTML

chrisseaton on Feb 22, 2022 [–]

The common part is WebKit - you can say they're both WebKit, but not that they're both Chrome.

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