From what I understand, Gecko was a terrible engine from the get-go. It is also difficult to work with, and had a lot of idiosyncrasies that made hard to build anything that isn’t just a clone of Firefox. There’s a reason why Apple used KHTML as the basis of Safari and not Gecko. Even Brave is based off of Chromium, and the founder of Brave is one of Mozilla’s founders!
So apparently no, Gecko is not it. We need something closer to a pure browser engine that is open source.
Are we defining software based on being open source or the ethics of Google? I never said they were a good company, but if we are operating on the ability for someone to take the code and make it their own then yes, it’s effectively the “Linux of browsers.”
Isn’t that gecko, Firefox’s engine?
From what I understand, Gecko was a terrible engine from the get-go. It is also difficult to work with, and had a lot of idiosyncrasies that made hard to build anything that isn’t just a clone of Firefox. There’s a reason why Apple used KHTML as the basis of Safari and not Gecko. Even Brave is based off of Chromium, and the founder of Brave is one of Mozilla’s founders!
So apparently no, Gecko is not it. We need something closer to a pure browser engine that is open source.
The current Firefox engine is so much better than before the rewrite. It was literally multiple magnitudes slower than Chrome.
The above commenter is not talking about speed. At least it’s not the main point.
No, chromium is the Linux of browsers.
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Are we defining software based on being open source or the ethics of Google? I never said they were a good company, but if we are operating on the ability for someone to take the code and make it their own then yes, it’s effectively the “Linux of browsers.”
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