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by mncolinlee 2570 days ago
A total rewrite of Firefox for Android with the new GeckoView engine is going live soon. We have close to 1,000 engineers doing impactful work on things like engine development, Rust, WebAssembly, AV1, etc. Our designers are busy because design really matters to getting product into hands!
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nercht12 2570 days ago
Except creating a fast browser that obeys web standards. I switched to an old fork of Firefox that's fast and now in maintenance mode. Works fantastic.
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mncolinlee 2568 days ago
GeckoView is substantially faster than the old Gecko mobile engine, just like Quantum/Servo did for desktop. I don't know what web standards you think are missing.
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nercht12 2564 days ago
I'm talking about desktop version, which is still slow. I don't care about mobile, but that's where everyone else is at I guess. sigh

I don't recall what web standards I had in mind at the time I wrote my comment, sorry.

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