This week is the WebKit Contributor’s meeting — with the browser engineers who contribute to WebKit. Including from Apple, Igalia, Sony, Redhat & more.

Did you know that WebKit is not just the browser engine for Safari — but for many other browsers, apps, and platforms as well? Igalia @igalia maintains two of them: WebKitGTK @WebKitGTK and WPE @WPEWebKit

WebKit is especially great for devices that don’t have a lot of power. It’s used for digital signs, medical devices, game consoles and more!

@jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit I just switched back from Firefox to Safari (after FF leaning into advertising and AI), and the battery life of my M1 is easily 2x or more of what it was with FF, even with an extension that snoozed inactive tabs. Crazy. Thanks for your work on power efficiency, keep it up!!! 🙏
@jni @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit I would probably switch from FF to Safari too, if more than like 10% of my extensions worked on Safari 🫠
@avakining yeah the extension issue is a bummer, but I guess I am a simple man with simple needs. 😜 (refined-github is available and that plus an ad-blocker were basically enough 😂). What’s your MVP extension that you would miss?

@jni Just the ones I use every single day:

- uBlock Origin
- XKit Rewritten
- Indie Wiki Buddy
- Shinigami Eyes
- PronounDB

And that’s not even mentioning the ones I only use a few times per week :/