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I was just thinking, "Why isn't there an Electron for Firefox?"

• kodablah 7y ago
  They worked on it a bit [0] but it has been abandoned along with all the other embedding efforts over time. As someone who embeds Chromium (via CEF) only because it's easy, I would really appreciate (and have been shouting into the wind about) focus on the embeddability of Gecko. 0 - https://github.com/mozilla/positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron
  • the8472 7y ago
    Long before positron (and electron) there was XULrunner.
• giancarlostoro 7y ago
  I have a feeling this might change once Firefox is either entirely written in Rust, or mostly written in Rust.
  • _bxg1 7y ago
    Why?
    • giancarlostoro 7y ago
      A lot of legacy code is being removed. As this happens the codebase will be reworked with contributors in mind.