What are the best lightweight open source browser engines? Not specific browsers, but the engines themselves, such as Webkit, blink, Qtwebengine, and others

If some of you can go in deph about:

Memory usage and speed difference between the different browser engines.

  • Chris@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Duktape is used by NetSurf, but the JS implementation (in NetSurf) is incomplete - specifically there’s no dynamic layout engine so a lot of stuff doesn’t work.

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      Partial support is sadly pretty useless at present. Developers target ‘latest’ big engines, so unless you are up to yesterday’s spec, there is a good chance their JavaScript will give you nothing but errors.