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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by brundolf on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:12PM (#30337606)
Another interesting idea: what if they courted alternate browser projects and/or environments like electron to use the Firefox engine the way those currently tend to use Chromium?

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

Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by zsims on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:48PM (#30338086)
Some of the reasons for why it's not used as a base were discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29900496
Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by brundolf on Monday February 14, 2022 @05:10PM (#30339085)
Welp, there you go