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[–] Hypx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There really needs to be a "Linux" of browser engines.

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that gecko, Firefox's engine?

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, Gecko was a terrible engine from the get-go. It is also difficult to work with, and had a lot of idiosyncrasies that made hard to build anything that isn't just a clone of Firefox. There's a reason why Apple used KHTML as the basis of Safari and not Gecko. Even Brave is based off of Chromium, and the founder of Brave is one of Mozilla's founders!

So apparently no, Gecko is not it. We need something closer to a pure browser engine that is open source.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, chromium is the Linux of browsers.

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Manifest v3 and the weird personality-based advertisment-helping cookie alternative are stuff that Linux would never implement. Google uses it to push their agenda to make more money. That's not what Linux is doing.

I'd argue that's what Gecko is tbh

[–] Liontigerwings@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that not what Chromium is? An open source browser that anyone can adapt to suit their needs.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

People are worried that Google controls the project. Anyone using Chromium is basically making their own version of Chrome but with extra features.