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I wonder how difficult would be an open source community project whose explicit aim would be to take the Firefox code base and make it more modular and embeddab
by Santosh83 5y ago
I wonder how difficult would be an open source community project whose explicit aim would be to take the Firefox code base and make it more modular and embeddable, like Chromium? Would it be too much work for a community effort?
- rocqua 5y agoElectron, but based on Firefox instead of chrome. Not the most appealing idea, but an interesting one. Might help move more people to essentially using Firefox.
- rd07 5y agoMozilla has been trying to build an Electron alternative based on Gecko, but it has been discontinued https://github.com/mozilla/positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron
- mook 5y agoThey also had XULRunner… I was even lucky enough to have been using it in a professional context. Unfortunately it wasn't well supported; trying to submit patches was always painful, and framing issues as a Firefox bug was slightly more likely to get things merged. I imagine it's easier than landing changes in Chromium (because Electron is a completely separate project), at least.
- occamrazor 5y agoEven if possible, such an initiative could only be successful if Mozilla supports it otherwise the “new” code will quickly go out of sync with the Firefox codebase.