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I am super amazed to see a Gecko based browser. People always told me that Mozilla makes it virtually impossible to use the Gecko engine in other browsers. Doe
by yewenjie 5y ago
I am super amazed to see a Gecko based browser. People always told me that Mozilla makes it virtually impossible to use the Gecko engine in other browsers.
Does it support extensions?
Also, what does this mean?
> Protect your mailbox
> We will offer to mask your email address when you sign up for sites or services.
- schleck8 5y agoMaybe a proxy service a la Firefox Relay
- Santosh83 5y agoAFAIK no one claimed it was "virtually impossible". Just more cumbersome than Chromium since it wasn't designed with embedding in mind from get go.
- LukeShu 5y agoHistorically, it was relatively easy to use Gecko to build other apps including other browsers; what has hard was embedding it inside of something else as just one component among many (i.e. you had to build the whole app using XUL). However, recent-ish (~2015?) changes in Gecko made this harder to do, so many apps that used to do this have switched to the Goanna/UXP fork of Gecko that retains that ease.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoXUL Runner was a relatively easy way to build apps, or at least their UIs, from markup. It's interesting that the approach has lived on, albiet through other implementations like Electron.