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by troupo 312 days ago
Mozilla already has an engine with a lot of engineering hours invested in it and that fulfills their need.

How does helping Google maintain their dominance help Mozilla?
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charcircuit 312 days ago
Gecko doesn't support ios, so it wouldn't fulfill their needs here. Since Blink is known for being easier to embed then Gecko I think it would be easier for Firefox to move from Webkit to Blink than to Gecko.

Google's dominance is due to Chrome's market share. Using their browser engine doesn't affect their dominance.

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troupo 312 days ago
> Gecko doesn't support ios, so it wouldn't fulfill their needs here.

Chrome doesn't support iOS either

> Google's dominance is due to Chrome's market share. Using their browser engine doesn't affect their dominance.

"Using a competitor's browser engine and thereby further cementing that browser's dominance doesn't affect dominance"

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