Re:Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting...
by coffeeling on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:02AM
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Brave was originally based on a Gecko-based Electron-alike. I think it was called Muon?
Re:Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting...
by niutech on Friday February 16, 2024 @04:15AM
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No, it was based on Blink: https://github.com/brave/muon
Re:Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting...
by BrendanEich on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:34AM
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Muon was our Electron fork (μ− is heavy e-), but Brave started on Gecko:
Is Goanna on part with web standards? Maintaining what seems basically a folk of an old Gecko must be hard.
It also kinda validates my point: using Gecko elsewhere is a PITA. You have to work hard to make it embeddable.
To answer your question, Gnome Web / Epiphany was once based to Gecko. It switched to WebKit because using Gecko was harder and harder. Konqueror optionally allowed you to use Gecko, but that stopped being possible a long time ago for the same reason. Galeon and Camino both died a long time ago.
Brave, Vivaldi & Co picked Chromium instead of Gecko. With Eich coming from Mozilla, I think Brave considered Gecko but that was deemed too hard.