I mean, I like Firefox, but I’d love to see Vivaldi based on Firefox/Gecko. There’s Floorp, which is similar in some ways but it’s more like an Edge built on Firefox than Vivaldi.

Edit: Thank y’all for your answers. :D

I want to link !@[email protected] 's post because it is a similar quesion. https://thelemmy.club/post/718914

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    Apple didn’t “decide it’s better to use webkit”, they MADE WebKit (from forking KDE). Back when they started WebKit Gecko was only out for a year and heavily associated with Netscape, while KDE’s was already mature

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      Thanks for the correction. This doesn’t disregard my argument. Netscape codebase was bloated and underperformant. It was a bad choice for a basis for a new browser.