I'm not sure how they are dealing with documentation. Someone posted this link on Reddit's r/palemoon less than a year ago: https://udn.realityripple.com/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Overlay_E...
I felt the same, and I may have done more than simply dismiss Brave if that were the case. Although I do understand that Gecko isn't exactly simple or easy for a third party to build off of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeon
> 2002-11-01 6:48 AM
> Mozilla is nice, but Galeon…WOW, best browser i’ve ever used, and it beats mozilla hands down for speed (on my system atleast).
There was already a browser called Epiphany and Galeon was changed to mirror the features in Epiphany even if that meant there were less features than in Galeon 1.2.x and removal of features was unpopular with the users.
https://noone.org/blog/English/Computer/Web/Browsers/Galeon%...
EDIT: I also forgot to mention that Phoenix, later renamed Firefox, was developed for Windows first. Linux development was considered an afterthought. It was recommended to use Mozilla or Seamonkey.
"[Galeon fork] Epiphany's main goal is to be integrated with the gnome desktop. We don't aim to make epiphany usable outside Gnome. If someone will like to use it anyway, it's just a plus. Ex: Making people happy that don't have control center installed is not a good reason to have mime configuration in epiphany itself."
https://web.archive.org/web/20051028022736/http://gnomedeskt...
"As such, we've reached the conclusion that we have to change our approach if we're going to avoid Galeon getting stale or bit-rotting"
"Epiphany has a bunch of active maintainers who are handling the things that we struggle to do for Galeon. But you say: Epiphany doesn't fit my needs or I'd be using it already! True, so our proposal is to bring Galeon to Epiphany."
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
Don't forget XAML.
I too was excited for these two things as well ~20 years ago.
As leader of a supposedly community driven project and corp one would hope he'd reconsider the rights of marginalized groups.
They even brought up XUL which I was extremely excited about at the time.
On a side note, as a dedicated Firefox user it was very disheartening to hear that as one of the crucial people involved in Mozilla over the years he decided against using a Firefox derivative for his new browser, instead choosing a chromium-based one instead.
https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/the-browser-with-brendan-ei...