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by _bxg1 2350 days ago
I was just thinking, "Why isn't there an Electron for Firefox?"
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kodablah 2350 days ago
They worked on it a bit [0] but it has been abandoned along with all the other embedding efforts over time. As someone who embeds Chromium (via CEF) only because it's easy, I would really appreciate (and have been shouting into the wind about) focus on the embeddability of Gecko.

0 - https://github.com/mozilla/positron

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the8472 2350 days ago
Long before positron (and electron) there was XULrunner.
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giancarlostoro 2350 days ago
I have a feeling this might change once Firefox is either entirely written in Rust, or mostly written in Rust.
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_bxg1 2350 days ago
Why?
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giancarlostoro 2349 days ago
A lot of legacy code is being removed. As this happens the codebase will be reworked with contributors in mind.
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