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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Firefox gets tons of funding from Google, and their code is quite frankly humongous. From what I understand, it's extremely hard to get the gecko web view engine to work. In another browser, unless it's a fork of Firefox, unlike Chromium where you can just redesign an entire browser around it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Neither Chromium nor Gecko have a stable public API. Companies are just willing to spend money rebasing every Chromium update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It doesn't help that there's basically no documentation for how to use the Gecko engine either.