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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by _bxg1 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:13PM (#22057406)
I was just thinking, "Why isn't there an Electron for Firefox?"
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by kodablah on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:16PM (#22057449)
They worked on it a bit [0] but it has been abandoned along with all the other embedding efforts over time. As someone who embeds Chromium (via CEF) only because it's easy, I would really appreciate (and have been shouting into the wind about) focus on the embeddability of Gecko.

0 - https://github.com/mozilla/positron

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by the8472 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:16PM (#22059376)
Long before positron (and electron) there was XULrunner.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:33PM (#22057610)
I have a feeling this might change once Firefox is either entirely written in Rust, or mostly written in Rust.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by _bxg1 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:01PM (#22057869)
Why?
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:26PM (#22059983)
A lot of legacy code is being removed. As this happens the codebase will be reworked with contributors in mind.
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