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As somebody who worked on the Gecko side on this, there absolutely was a need for a rewrite.
by dblohm7 3y ago
As somebody who worked on the Gecko side on this, there absolutely was a need for a rewrite.
- OneDonOne 3y agoNot to sound like some sort of Pale Moon absolutist, but, I feel like the frontend changes were too much. And 3 years without Firefox biggest selling point is painful. It hurts. It really hurts. The only reason I haven't sold my soul and dignity to Chromium is that Iceraven lets me use μMatrix.
- dblohm7 3y agoIt had to be rewritten. Essentially there was no formal interface between the frontend and Gecko, and it had turned into a sluggish hairball of a monolith. We redesigned Gecko on Android to be embeddable (GeckoView[1]) and so a new frontend had to be written. That part was absolutely necessary. The rest of the debate is just about the UX, really. [1] https://geckoview.dev https://geckoview.dev