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Is it still different from "Firefox Nightly" (previously named "Firefox Preview")? This Firefox Nightly one uses the Gecko rendering engine, while the standard
by qwertox 6y ago
Is it still different from "Firefox Nightly" (previously named "Firefox Preview")?
This Firefox Nightly one uses the Gecko rendering engine, while the standard one uses Android's (or Google's?) Chrome Webview. Has this changed?
- jorams 6y agoNeither version of Firefox for Android uses a Chrome webview. The old one is built on Gecko directly, while the new one uses GeckoView.
- sciurus 6y agoThis is not correct. Both the old Firefox for Android(codename Fennec) and the new one(codename Fenix) use Gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine. What has changed is that Fenix uses Gecko via https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/
- qwertox 6y agoThank you so much for that link. I think I got mislead by heise.de into thinking that this issue with Chrome WebView existed. Since I have had issues in my app with Chrome/Android WebView, I will start experimenting with GeckoView. I didn't know it existed as a component. Thank you so very much!
- aidenn0 6y agoYou're thinking of either Firefox focus on Android or Firefox on iOS, both of which use the OS native renderer.