Personal experience: Battery drain was always my problem with Firefox on MacOs. Why when using Safari it is nice and full day surfing w/o recharge; but doing the same with Firefox would discharge laptops battery much faster.

Battery life seems like an afterthought for anything other than Safari (and back when it was Trident-based, MS Edge on Windows), which is kinda weird when one considers how laptops have come to dominate computing.

plonk

Was Edge based on Trident? I thought they re-wrote an engine from scratch.

cobalt

old edge was trident (which came from IE) new edge is based on chromium

jaxrtech

From my understanding, Chromium/WebKit/V8 and Firefox/Gecko/Spidermonkey are the last (major) contenders in the browser engine space. After Opera switched to WebKit in 2013. And Edge in 2020. I'm sure there are numerous lesser known ones...

ho_schi

    * Blink (Google)
    * WebKit2 (Apple and some folks, mainly WebKit2Gtk)
    * Gecko (Mozilla)

    Microsofts Trident is dead, they now use Blink.  
    Operas Presto is dead, they now use Blink.
    KDEs KHTML (the predecessor of WebKit1) is dead.

Google is dominating, pushing through Android, all Googles-Services and Microsoft Edge. A reason to worry because Google controls the Web and the Engine. Furthermore implementing an entire new engine seems an enormous effort. For instance Microsoft only allows usage of Microsoft Teams Web with a webbrowser based upon Blink. So were back in 2002?

WebKit features also WebKit2Gtk (Epiphany) and Qt5-webkit (Otter) with native integration. Both use the native toolkits, which is an advantage! Interaction with the open-source community around WebKit seems rather good and the engine is integrated by others. Gecko seems not to be integrated by others but by forks only? You remember when Chrome was considered slick and fast? Originally Chrome used the native toolkit on every platform. Now Chrome ships an own toolkit, similar to Firefox.

And? Maybe there is a new engine on the block:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird

PS: I think the Epiphany guys doing a nice job but need more developers. The upcoming release will support Web-Extensions.