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Google strips 8.8 million lines of code from Blink engine

Google strips 8.8 million lines of code from Blink engine
  • Posted May 17, 2013, 5:45 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in Industry News
  • Google recently announced that it was forking WebKit to create the Blink rendering browser engine in an effort to pare down the WebKit engine to the essentials for Chrome. Since WebKit is used on over seven different platforms, it had…

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with Samsung on Servo

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with Samsung on Servo
  • Posted April 4, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web Breaking News
  • It’s been roughly two months since Opera announced it was dropping its own Presto web rendering engine in favor of Webkit, the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. The move was seen as an attempt to remain relevant in…

Opera releases first beta of new WebKit-powered Android browser

Opera releases first beta of new WebKit-powered Android browser
  • Posted March 6, 2013, 8:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Mobile Computing With Video
  • Moving ahead with its plan to drop its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit -- the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome -- Opera Software has released the first public version of its revamped mobile browser…

Opera switching to Webkit engine in 2013, browser will be based on Chromium

Opera switching to Webkit engine in 2013, browser will be based on Chromium
  • Posted February 13, 2013, 11:19 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
  • After years struggling to capture a bigger share of the browser market Opera has announced it is dropping its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit -- the same engine used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. The move…

Chrome hacked at Pwnium, "Pinkie Pie" does it again

Chrome hacked at Pwnium, "Pinkie Pie" does it again
  • Posted October 11, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Software
  • For the second time this year, hacker "Pinkie Pie" gave Google a run for its money -- and won. The clever hacker exploited yet another vulnerability in Chrome during the second Pwnium conference this year, netting himself (or perhaps herself)…

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