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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by johnny22 on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:57AM (#37737017)
it's hard to call servo a fork. its more like a ground up rewrite of a browser
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by kiliancs on Monday October 02, 2023 @09:20AM (#37737703)
It's just incorrect to call it a fork. That Mozilla started it doesn't make it a fork of Firefox.
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by webmobdev on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:42PM (#37741733)
You are right. Perhaps the right word is port - a rewrite of Gecko with Rust, instead of C++?
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by Narishma on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:45PM (#37759904)
I don't think it's a port either. It's a new engine. I don't think it uses anything from Gecko.
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