minus-squarekrdo@lmmy.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do most browser companies opt for a Chromium/Blink base instead of a Firefox/Gecko one?linkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThe main reason I’ve heard is that chromium is far easier to embed than Gecko. Gecko isn’t something you embed like a library. It’s something you build upon. Detaching Gecko from Firefox UI (or Thunderbird for that matter) is supposedly really hard. linkfedilink
The main reason I’ve heard is that chromium is far easier to embed than Gecko. Gecko isn’t something you embed like a library. It’s something you build upon. Detaching Gecko from Firefox UI (or Thunderbird for that matter) is supposedly really hard.