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If Mozilla decides to dump Gecko, then it's time for a hard fork and an abandonment of Mozilla. Maybe it's time now. edit: I mean dumping Gecko for Chromium, n
by godshatter 1y ago
If Mozilla decides to dump Gecko, then it's time for a hard fork and an abandonment of Mozilla. Maybe it's time now.
edit: I mean dumping Gecko for Chromium, not Servo.
- goku12 1y agoHonestly, dumping gecko would be a suicide for Firefox. Much of Firefox's minuscule userbase consists of knowledgeable nerds who are holdouts from the Blink monoculture.
- dralley 1y agoSo start replacing bits of Blink with Rust, instead of bits of Gecko. Maybe their primary addressable market is nerds, but I guarantee more people quit using Firefox because of websites not working correctly or Google's marketing than because of any of the things that HN loves to complain about.
- sbstp 1y agoUsing WebKit (even JavaScriptCore) and working with Apple wouldn't be the worst thing to my eyes as a Firefox/FOSS user. Duopoly isn't great but it's better than a monopoly.
- zavec 1y agoMy main concern is manifest v3, I would be incredibly annoyed if I had to switch to a browser that broke ublock.
- goku12 1y agoI think they're trying to switch to MV3 without removing the features that let uBO and the others work.