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Re:Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand by mncolinlee on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:18PM (#20159630)
A total rewrite of Firefox for Android with the new GeckoView engine is going live soon. We have close to 1,000 engineers doing impactful work on things like engine development, Rust, WebAssembly, AV1, etc. Our designers are busy because design really matters to getting product into hands!
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Re:Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand by nercht12 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:43AM (#20162307)
Except creating a fast browser that obeys web standards. I switched to an old fork of Firefox that's fast and now in maintenance mode. Works fantastic.
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Re:Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand by mncolinlee on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:30PM (#20177883)
GeckoView is substantially faster than the old Gecko mobile engine, just like Quantum/Servo did for desktop. I don't know what web standards you think are missing.
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Re:Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand by nercht12 on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:19PM (#20209000)
I'm talking about desktop version, which is still slow. I don't care about mobile, but that's where everyone else is at I guess. sigh

I don't recall what web standards I had in mind at the time I wrote my comment, sorry.

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