Comment by godshatter
6 days 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.
6 days 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.
Honestly, 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.
Using 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.
My main concern is manifest v3, I would be incredibly annoyed if I had to switch to a browser that broke ublock.
So 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.