Most users never think twice about the browser they open each morning. Chrome feels fast. Safari blends into the iPhone. Edge tags along with Windows. Yet beneath the surface lies a quieter consolidation of power. Three browser engines now shape nearly every online experience. Two of them answer to Google and Apple. Blink powers Chrome and the vast Chromium family. WebKit runs Safari and every browser Apple permits on iOS. Gecko, built by Mozilla, stands as the stubborn holdout. A fourth project called Ladybird aims to break in from outside the club. This concentration matters far more than the choice of logos or color schemes. It decides which web features arrive first, which privacy tools survive, and whose priorities write the rules the internet follows. MakeUseOf laid out the problem clearly last week. Switching browsers often changes little under the hood. “Chrome left the building, but Blink didn’t,” the article noted. On iPhones the restriction bites harder. Apple requires every browser to use WebKit.…