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I wonder, if there was a fork of electron using Firefox instead of chromium, what would the ram usage be like? Mozilla really paved the way for electron with p

I wonder, if there was a fork of electron using Firefox instead of chromium, what would the ram usage be like? Mozilla really paved the way for electron with prism, shame it never really took off

ZenoArrow 9y ago
I believe you're looking for Positron: https://github.com/mozilla/positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron
- roryisok 9y ago
  Very interesting, thanks. Apparently its been discontinued and replaced by qbrt https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/15/introducing-qbrt/ https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/15/introducing-qbrt/
Macha 9y ago
Gecko is apparently pretty painful to embed, with most other Gecko based browsers (that weren't firefox forks a la Pale Moon) having long since stopped development or switched to Webkit/Chromium.
- kuschku 9y ago
  That’ll be fixed once Servo is finished, though, as that has easy APIs for embedding.
  - pspeter3 9y ago
    Yeah, I'm really interested to see that happen. Any idea of when?
vatotemking 9y ago
I think Komodo IDE was built on top of Mozilla codebase. But im not sure if its related to positron