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by LockAndLol 2239 days ago
Preach. Not only is Gecko a nightmare to embed, Firefox is terrible for headless. It's why something like phantomjs even had to exist.

An embeddable Gecko would've created a wonderful ecosystem around it, produced headless browsers, a much wider range of browser alternatives, and had much more leverage when it comes to standard. They had... 8 years? 5 years? on Chomium and now have one hell of a task to correct that error.

Looking at the code of their new layout engine written in Rust, making it embeddable wasn't even remotely on their minds either. A real pity.