WHEN IT COMES to browsing the web, more than six in ten of us use Google’s Chrome browser. Its dominance has slipped slightly in recent years, but that only tells part of the story. Beneath Chrome’s hood is Google’s open-source Chromium browser and Blink web engine, which renders web pages and performs other core tasks, including navigation, running scripts, and security. Virtually all other web browsers—including Microsoft Edge—now use Blink rather than develop their own proprietary engines.
While Apple continues to plow its own furrow with WebKit, the only other standout is Mozilla’s Gecko engine, used to power its Firefox browser. Unlike virtually any other browser comparison, then, we’re not
