agi0

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   by agi0 6y ago

   I haven't looked at what Google does recently but you're likely getting most of Chrome in a separate package (e.g. the system WebView). Chrome and Firefox are of compareble size IIRC (56MB vs 65MB)
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   by agi0 6y ago

   I have personally been working on Extension support for Fenix/GeckoView since October 2018 :) It's just a massive project with a lot of moving parts.
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   by agi0 6y ago

   What extension do you use for that?
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   by agi0 6y ago

   We're working really hard to make extensions a first class product on Firefox Preview. The team rewrote the Android side of things from scratch so there's a lot to rebuild but we're getting close. Stay tuned!
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   by agi0 6y ago

   The plan for Servo is to integrate it in Gecko piece by piece. In this sense GeckoView (which uses Gecko) will use Servo eventually. It already has WebRender and Stylo from Servo (like the rest of Gecko-powered products).
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   by agi0 6y ago

   > Keep in mind that GeckoView may not be used to build a browser. Rather it's often an engine used to drive an application built with web technologies. So a developers requirements for updates are different than an interactive brows