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by pvg
1627 days ago
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real killer and root cause is that Chromium is well suited to being embedded, and Gecko is not. I don't think that's really the key problem since you don't have to build a new browser out of FF by embedding Gecko. FF itself is a browser that was made out of another browser, much of the old core Mozilla technology is basically a cross-platform app-building framework with one of the 'apps' being a browser. Somewhat unobviously, this turned out not to be a great way to build a browser in the long run. |
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It's actually great in the amount of flexibility and access it gives to 3rd-party developers to customize the browser itself. Unfortunately, the price seems to be complexity and rigidity in some critical areas (performance, embeddability).