[slightwinder]

> I've always wondered why Mozilla doesn't make it easier to embed Gecko everywhere it possibly can. If Electron was built with Gecko, it would go a huge way towards preventing Chrome from becoming the de-facto way of accessing the Web.

On desktop Mozilla did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner

It was quite successful und I never understodd what happend for them to abonded it and let mozilla run down so deep into s* as it is now.

[duskwuff]

"Quite successful" is perhaps an exaggeration. Most of the projects using XULRunner were directly related to the Mozilla project (forks of Mozilla Navigator and Composer, Thunderbird, Chatzilla, etc). There are very few projects which independently chose to use XULRunner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_that_uses_XU...