On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Mark Wallace wrote:
> Although Safari is Unix based, it is proprietary software and they
> might have had to buy a license to touch it.

I believe WebKit is *also* open source.... http://webkit.org/

>  By comparison, they could
> download all the source code that they wanted for Firefox for free.

(a) webkit is open source
(b) firefox code is a heinous bloated mess, by all accounts

> In early editions of chrome that I tried, it behaved suspiciously like
> Firefox and one plug in or something that I downloaded for Firefox
> worked in Chrome.

That's... weird, and I have no idea how it would work, because under the hood 
they're really completely different beasts. What plugin was it?


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