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Why does nobody partner with Mozilla or simply use the Firefox's web engine?
by galbar 5y ago
Why does nobody partner with Mozilla or simply use the Firefox's web engine?
- MarcellusDrum 5y agoNot an expert in the field, but the consensus I keep seeing is that: 1) Gecko is harder to embed and fork. Google built chrome to be "embeddable" from the start, while Mozilla slowly made it lower priority, possibly due to the lower budget. 2) Gecko is licensed under MPL, while Chromium-Blink is available in BSD. Even if companies are going to release the source code, its easier not to be under obligation to do it properly in a timely manner. 3) A lot of websites only support Chromium-based browsers, or are at least only tested on them. While we all like an underdog success story, it makes more sense to use the better supported option. Someone more experienced can provide better insight though.