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by m4rtink 2235 days ago
Yeah, the Sailfish OS project, which is an operating system for mobile devices. They use Gecko as engine for their default web browser, but are always lagging with engine updates as every time they have to painstakingly rebase all of their embedding patches on top of the new Gecko codebase.
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slezyr 2235 days ago
Same thing happens with CEF, QtWebKit (sometimes they just drop some features to update to a new version)
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smnthermes 2235 days ago
Why do they not use the ESR version?
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m4rtink 2234 days ago
I think they do, just an old one as ESR AFAIK does not guarantee you stability of the internal APIS needed for embedding between ESR versions.

I think it's at least 45 ESR, as mentioned in release notes ~year ago: https://blog.jolla.com/hossa/

There is an issue tracking the Gecko update on the community discussion/bug reporting tool used for Sailfish OS: https://together.jolla.com/question/133621/update-gecko-in-t...

The source of the Sailfish OS browser lives here: https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser

(Even though Sailfish OS is sadly not fully open source, the browser is as are other core applications and frameworks.)

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