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Which efforts would that be?

Pretty much every other browser is based on Chromium. Some very niche ones on webkit.

I don't think that Otter Browser is based on Chromium.

Otter Browser looks like it uses QtWebKit. So not chromium, but still the same KHTML/WebKit/Blink family.

just great. we really need a new alternative because I don't like where Firefox is heading and I have been using it since the beginning.

Orion Browser is proudly based on WebKit.