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They are all kind of pre-multiprocess/Rust Firefox forks. It seems Pale Moon has forked Gecko into Goanna and made it embeddable (which is neat!) and that's wha
by jraph 3y ago
They are all kind of pre-multiprocess/Rust Firefox forks. It seems Pale Moon has forked Gecko into Goanna and made it embeddable (which is neat!) and that's what K-Meleon uses too. Which I didn't know.
Is Goanna on part with web standards? Maintaining what seems basically a folk of an old Gecko must be hard.
It also kinda validates my point: using Gecko elsewhere is a PITA. You have to work hard to make it embeddable.
To answer your question, Gnome Web / Epiphany was once based to Gecko. It switched to WebKit because using Gecko was harder and harder. Konqueror optionally allowed you to use Gecko, but that stopped being possible a long time ago for the same reason. Galeon and Camino both died a long time ago.
Brave, Vivaldi & Co picked Chromium instead of Gecko. With Eich coming from Mozilla, I think Brave considered Gecko but that was deemed too hard.
- coffeeling 3y agoBrave was originally based on a Gecko-based Electron-alike. I think it was called Muon?
- niutech 3y agoNo, it was based on Blink: https://github.com/brave/muon https://github.com/brave/muon
- BrendanEich 3y agoMuon was our Electron fork (μ− is heavy e-), but Brave started on Gecko: https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10