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.
Honestly, “browser engine” and “lightweight” currently don’t belong in the same sentence. Unless you’re going for something with very little functionality compared to Webkit or Gecko or whatever. We can hope that changes with time, but I don’t think there are a lot of prospects.
As far as “little functionality” options, there’s the Dillo browser. I’m not sure its engine is really easily “seperable”, so to do so might be some work. It’s surprisingly maintained. Its latest release is from 3 months ago. It’s definitely extremely lightweight. (Unless you’re comparing it against, say, elinks or something.)
As for somewhat promising projects that are not yet anywhere near ready for prime time, there’s the Ladybird browser. Again, I don’t know how seperable the engine is. And I don’t know how lightweight this one is either.
You are right. I guess I was interested in web engines with as much or close to as much functionality as web kit or gecko but maybe some that might be lighter on resource usage as i’m using it.
I heard of one browser engine made in a colab with Samsung and Mozilla called Servo made with rust and that it was meant to be lower resourced then todays browsers engines.
I just installed Epiphany browser earlier today running off of Webkit, it doesn’t have as many built in features as Falcon but for Fediverse sites it works with little issue. But sites with more adverts and javascipt things very well might slow to a crawl quickly on that.