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The writing is on the wall. Firefox will ditch it's engine and just become a skin over Chrome, just like Edge did.
by dist-epoch 4y ago
The writing is on the wall. Firefox will ditch it's engine and just become a skin over Chrome, just like Edge did.
- pjmlp 4y agoAt least Edge does offer additional browser features for OS integration and extended developer tools.
- EntrePrescott 4y agoWhile I strongly doubt that, I'll still add the end of the joke: … and Mitchell Baker will fire all of Mozilla's engine developers and use the money saved by that to give herself another multi-million dollar salary raise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary-achievements_correlation_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...
- kvark 4y agoGecko engine looks pretty healthy to me overall. And WebGPU in particular is the least of a concern, given that Firefox's implementation is based on wgpu [1], which has great community and a lot of users within and outside of Rust ecosystem. I'm confident Firefox can ship it soon (tm). [1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu