"WebKit's core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish." According to the Webkit blog, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit's previous interpreter. This detailed blog entry explains exactly why the new engine is so much faster and the Webkit team's plans for continued improvement in rendering speeds. 
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It is switching to Webkit by default for 2.23. Not that I can actually find any updated code for this since 2.22, it must be hiding somewhere private...2.22's Webkit backend basically works but leaves a lot to be desired (no extensions work with it, for instance, so no AdBlock).
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there is a google SoC application for a webkit kpart that you can use in konqueror http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/webkitkde/
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Another WebKit/Cocoa browser: Shiira
http://shiira.jp/en.php
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Add Arora to Webkit.
http://code.google.com/p/arora/
There's also Swift, but it's not quite as far along as Arora.
http://try.swift.ws/
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How "major" do these have to be in order to be counted?
There's gtkhtml - does dillo use this, or another?
chimera2 has its own pretty bad enjine, but I admit it's ancient
HotJava has its own engine
Hv3 uses Tkhtml3
Do we count JS engines seperately? As we have seen, the JS engine just changed for webkit and may change for Gecko.
Do we count text mode browsers like links, lynx, w3m, etc?
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2005-11-07
WebKit - Safari, OmniWeb, Epiphany, Konquerer
Gecko - Mozilla, Firefox, Camino
Trident - Internet Explorer
Have I missed any that are relevant today? I believe Netscape had a different one, but Gecko replaced it.