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> If Mozilla really wants diversity, why haven't they made an effort to make Gecko attractive for embedding, thus providing an alternative to WebKit? I think M
by fpgeek 14y ago
> If Mozilla really wants diversity, why haven't they made an effort to make Gecko attractive for embedding, thus providing an alternative to WebKit?
I think Mozilla's announcement makes their reasoning fairly clear:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.embedding/c_NMcO-N8wo/discussion https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.embeddin...
My summary is:
- The old embedding infrastructure was difficult to use and expensive to maintain
- It was also a technical dead end
- Better embedding infrastructure depended on complex architectural changes to Firefox
- Firefox is Mozilla's bread-and-butter, in terms of visibility, influence and revenue
- Mozilla has ambitious goals and does not have infinite resources
Forget for a moment that we're talking about Mozilla, Firefox and Gecko embedding. In a different context, what would you do?
- batgaijin 14y agoYeah I think it's worth it once we have the rust-based one. I mean come on, Firefox isn't even distributed in 64-bit as an official option. It's really on it's last legs waiting for the next gust to carry it.
- pcwalton 14y agoThere are 64 bit versions of Firefox available for Mac and Linux.
- zobzu 14y agoChrome is 32 bits on Windows, by the way. Suppose it's on it's last legs too, uh! Oh and that http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-21.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
- arkem 14y ago64 bit Chrome on Windows is a possibility, Justin Schuh is working on it https://plus.google.com/u/0/116560594978217291380/posts/d93Xj6biuxi https://plus.google.com/u/0/116560594978217291380/posts/d93X...
- Tloewald 14y agoThe ambitious goals shouldn't be making a new OS then.
- fpgeek 14y agoGiven the spread of the device APIs that Mozilla was forced to develop for Firefox OS, I think it is clear that Firefox OS has already done more for Mozilla's mission than maintaining the previous embeddings ever could.
- Tloewald 14y ago"Our mission is to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web." It's not clear to me that FireFox OS has done anything for Mozilla's mission. Indeed, the Firefox OS home page seems to indicate Firefox's goal is to provide carriers and OEMs with an alternative to Android, and help them maintain customer relationships. WTF? Open source vendor lockin?