Welcome to syntax. Today, we're going to be talking about surfing the web with browsers.

That's right. We're going to be talking all about the web browser landscape in 2025, where things are at, what rendering engines exists, and who's using what, and even just a little bit of fun conversation around some niche browsers and stuff like that.

My name is Scott Tolensky.

I'm a developer from Denver.

With me as always is Westboss.

What's up, my man?

Hey, to talk about this, it feels like the browser landscape is kind of shifting right now,

not towards like lower level engines, although there are some new players in that space.

We'll talk about that, but more towards like the actual using of it.

I think all this like AI tooling and whatnot has made a lot of people reconsider it.

And then they're also all of this AI tooling is also making a lot of people reconsider leaving it as well when they try to stuff it down your throat in every single possible

way. Yeah. Yeah, totally. I mean, it is, it's interesting. And I think there's a lot here. And you know

what? Before we get off the jump, people got a lot of strong opinions on browsers. Just know that your,

your favorite browser might not just be the best browser in the entire world, no questions asked.

Because there's always give and takes with any of this stuff. I always feel like anytime we talk

about browsers or anybody does in the comments, it's crazy just how overwhelmingly skewed the comments are like,

Firefox is the only browser.

And then you look at the usage statistics and it's like 10 people using it.

So we'll get into it a little bit first.

But let's start with some of the rendering engine based talk.

We can start with the most used, most popular rendering

engine out there, which is blink. These are the chromium-based browsers, typically. And there's

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