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Chrome was not always based on chromeium. Chrome was based on Apple WebKit until 2013 when they forked WebKit and made the Blink engine.
Chromium was still the base before the WebKit/Blink fork. Chrome and Chromium were released simultaneously in 2008.
Chromium has always existed. Originally it was wrapping web kit and later they forked web kit into blink and diverged from Web kit. Chromium is a level above the engine.
Wha- hold up... I'm not sure I understand...
Chrome was based on WebKit?
I'm not aware about the old stuff as much so if someone could fill me in...
WebKit is a rendering engine which is one of the major components of a web browser. Chrome/Chromium was released in 2008 using a modified version of WebKit as its rendering engine. Eventually in 2013 they created a fork of WebKit called Blink, which is the current rendering engine for Chrome/Chromium.
In more history, WebKit is a fork of KHTML. That's the reason why WebKit itself is open source.
Apparently there hasn't been active maintenance since 2016 though and it's officially dead since this year. RIP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
Remember Konqueror? That's KDE's web browser, which still uses KHTML. I should try it out again and see how it's held up.
I'm not sure, but didn't Konqueror switch to qtwebkit at some point? Or was that a different qt-based browser?
I think thats falkon