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Is anyone interested in building embeddable version of Gecko, like Chromium, so it could be used and reused in other browsers? I remember way back ago there was
by butz 2y ago
Is anyone interested in building embeddable version of Gecko, like Chromium, so it could be used and reused in other browsers? I remember way back ago there was some browser that allowed switching between several versions of browser engines, one of those was Trident (Internet Explorer), as Windows made it embeddable at the time. Having a solid base anyone or any team could build up UI and features to their liking more easily and keep up with security updates too.
- dadoum 2y agoI asked a similar question to the Firefox leadership few months ago. [0] They feel like such effort will be of no use. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_firefox_leadership_team_at_mozilla_ama/l8gpx0z/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_f...
- kodablah 2y agoI have been looking for this for a while. I built a browser with Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) a while back, but Google neutered all users of it by disallowing Google logins from it using opaque heuristics that were hard to work around. I made a POC of using Qt to capture the FF window: https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc. But I fear if a browser engine becomes too easy to embed, large companies like Google will blackball it for fear of automated use, like they've done in the past.