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In one of the recent threads about Microsoft switching their Edge browser to be based on Chromium, I thought I read that one of the arguments against Firefox wa
by AaronFriel 8y ago
In one of the recent threads about Microsoft switching their Edge browser to be based on Chromium, I thought I read that one of the arguments against Firefox was the lack of ARM support.
I will continue to hold that the Edge team/leadership at MSFT made a wrong choice betting on a web monoculture here, and I hope Firefox remains popular as an alternative.
- basilgohar 8y agoIt would have been jaw-droppingly shocking if Microsoft ever chose Firefox or a similar "free as in freedom" project as the basis of their own products because they are not goal-aligned. Whereas Webkit-based (which did fork from KHTML...remember Konquerer?) browsers have long since been serving as the platform for big-software webtech, Firefox and Mozilla largely remain oriented towards the interests of users. This means decisions that could help commercial entities take a far second to the needs of direct users with few exceptions (I'm looking at you EME and DRM).
- mintplant 8y agoFirefox has had ARM support for a long time. Heck, there's even MIPS support in the tree, though I don't know whether anyone's exercised that code recently.
- AaronFriel 8y agoShould I have said Windows ARM64 support? :)
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 8y agoIt didn't have ARM64 JIT support until very recently.
- mintplant 8y agoI wrote patches to the existing ARM64 code generator three years ago...