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These are browser engines, or at least software for rendering HTML but not necessarily the actual browser. I donβt know them all, but top left, Gecko, is the engine for Mozilla, center is Web Kit for Safari, bottom center is Chromium for Chrome, Brave, Edge, etc., and bottom right is Trident, the old engine for Microsoft Internet Explorer.
what's the difference between the engine and the browser itself? is it similar to the Linux kernel vs the Debian user space?
The engine makes it so HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. are downloaded and turned into pixels you can look at. The browser embeds an engine for that purpose, but then also has a URL bar, tabs, bookmarks, a history feature and so on.
Pretty much.
links2 is middle right: it turns a terminal into a web browser
That's why this post makes no sense. There's no "evil" rendering engine. They should be judged by technical parameters.