farzul

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   by farzul 15y ago

   That's why I said "stalled" and not "halted" or "stopped". I'm surprised the discussion is around the wording of the title, half of which is your choice of wording, rather than the content. It's an interesting thing that a major open source
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   by farzul 15y ago

   So what you're saying is that Gecko (libxul) has gotten too big, and that development of libxul stuff (Gecko) has stalled until it has fixed. How is my title sensationalist? For those wondering, the bug where this is discussed is: https://
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   by farzul 15y ago

   I agree. A non-XUL version of Firefox would be excellent. The mobile work in this area shows great promise. Unfortunately support for embedding Gecko has been woeful, making experiments in this area difficult. The lack of an embedding story
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   by farzul 15y ago

   I disagree that there is no evidence in the thread that Gecko is too big. The "Gecko is too big" in the title is directly from the thread, started by a Mozilla developer. The evidence that development has stalled is the fact that the tree f
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   Gecko is too big - Firefox development stalls over code linking issue(groups.google.com)

   15 points by farzul 15y ago|19 comments