Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y...
by zsims on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:48PM
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Some of the reasons for why it's not used as a base were discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29900496
I don’t know if Firefox is currently harder to integrate than Chromium, or if they would just need to gain some sort of edge (no pun intended). But they could for example:
- Provide first-class documentation for integrating
- Provide some kind of stripped-down version that’s optimized for Electron-type scenarios; perhaps they could make it more resource-light for this usecase than Chromium is
Gaining marketshare this way could garner better support from websites and/or libraries, and might also prompt corporate support from invested companies