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I think it's too late for Mozilla, since it seems they already squandered most of their good will, userbase and money. At any rate, I think their only good pat
by fijuv 10mo ago
I think it's too late for Mozilla, since it seems they already squandered most of their good will, userbase and money.
At any rate, I think their only good path of to get rid of Gecko.
The best would be to replace it with a finished version of Servo, which would give them a technically superior browser, assuming Google doesn't also drop Blink for Servo. It may be too late for this, but AI agents may perhaps make finishing Servo realistic.
The other path would be to switch to Chromium, which would free all the Gecko developers to work on differentiating a Chromium-based Firefox from Chrome, and guarantee that Firefox is always better than Chrome.
- takluyver 10mo agoI doubt AI agents are going to greatly accelerate the development of something as big and complex as Servo. It seems more realistic that Firefox would be built around either Blink (from Chromium) or Webkit to lean on Google/Apple.
- saubeidl 10mo agoIf they switch to Chromium, they'll just become yet another Chrome rebrand. It'll kill what makes their browser special.
- theandrewbailey 10mo agoThey keep redesigning their UI to be more like Chrome, might as well go deeper.
- vdfs 10mo agoWhat makes their browser special really? Just chasing profits and google handout and not caring about their user base
- 0dayz 10mo ago>The other path would be to switch to Chromium, which would free all the Gecko developers to work on differentiating a Chromium-based Firefox from Chrome, and guarantee that Firefox is always better than Chrome No they would get fired, unless Firefox found a new big project to earn money from, which at the moment is not very likely.
- skrebbel 10mo agoI don't think it's too late at all. I mean, there's recurring outrage whenever Mozilla does something silly again but all through that Firefox is still a fantastic browser. Don't under-value the many quieter parts of Mozilla who just keep kicking ass day in day out.
- mcv 10mo agoWhat's wrong with Gecko?
- takluyver 10mo agoThere's nothing particularly wrong with it, but developing a browser engine and keeping up with new web standards is quite a bit of work. And web developers won't all test on a browser with 2-3% market share, so there's more risk of sites not rendering quite right because the engine is different.