From 7c18d857f0e52c33a3869ebc59411d59eb5c3715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ireydiak <verdierr@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:03:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] chore: removed gitsubmodules from README and Makefile

---
 Makefile  |  7 +------
 README.md | 12 ------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 72dbcb7d..a85d4e69 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -102,13 +102,8 @@ end2end:
 # ------------
 .PHONY: install
 
-## Install and build dependencies for release
-install: install-submodule
+install: build
 
 data:
 	cd src/data && go run public_suffix_list_gen.go > public_suffix_list.zig
 
-## Init and update git submodule
-install-submodule:
-	@git submodule init && \
-	git submodule update
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92e36cad..1a860fc7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -220,18 +220,6 @@ For **MacOS**, you need cmake and [Rust](https://rust-lang.org/tools/install/).
 brew install cmake
 ```
 
-### Install Git submodules
-
-The project uses git submodules for dependencies.
-
-To init or update the submodules in the `vendor/` directory:
-
-```
-make install-submodule
-```
-
-This is an alias for `git submodule init && git submodule update`.
-
 ### Build and run
 
 You an build the entire browser with `make build` or `make build-dev` for debug