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So they should have financed two independent browser engines as an already thin team, when not even Microsoft could manage a single engine? I am honestly baffl

• silisili 4y ago
  When you make all of your money from a browser, yes, you should focus all of your money there. Whether or not to finance two engines is up to the org, who have a proven track record of doing the worst possible thing, so why not.
• realusername 4y ago
  Edge's engine was okay at the end, they just decided that strategically it wasn't worth it.
• stuaxo 4y ago
  As components of servo became ready they were brought into Firefox, so this was the Firefox slowly getting rewritten with rust, a better multi threading and memory safety story.
• lenkite 4y ago
  Edge was amazing - its epub reader was super-fantabulous to the extent that it became my regular ebook reader. But Microsoft's boring CEO decided it was not a strategic use of developer effort and killed it. Edge should have been a cross platform browser from the start and it would have been a serious competitor to Chrome.