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The issue with this is that the more deeply customisable a fork would be the further it would stray from upstream (and by extension the more dev resources it wo
by lucideer 5y ago
The issue with this is that the more deeply customisable a fork would be the further it would stray from upstream (and by extension the more dev resources it would require to maintain).
> I keep hearing the Firefox codebase isn't very modular and makes it hard to pursue such a project, and I don't doubt it. But aren't there enough of "us" out there to make a concerted effort?
There's been plenty of people making such an effort, but yeah it does appear to be "hard". If you're interested in following previous work, some relevant links:
- Overview of Myk Melez's efforts in this space https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/ https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/
- https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ (official but Android-only)
- https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt
It may also be worthwhile reading about CEF which has become something of a defacto standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework