Safari's WebKit is also the rendering engine the Chromium's Blink engine was based on. So Firefox Gecko really is the only competition. Kind of like Core/Knots in Bitcoin node implementations.

Ladybird browser is coming

Sticking with FireFox lately. Seems to be working well.

safari is chromium/webkit based.

that was the mistake of all the developers, for not wanting to make their own browser, they believed that Google would be in charge of making a freer browser just so that in the end everyone is subject to what they impose.

Webkit was a fork of khtml, which was the basis of the Linux kde browser konqueror. Firefox evolved from Netscape Navigator, from back in the early days of the internet.