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0 pointsshmerl8y ago0 comments

Fennec used to work without GTK? And Firefox on Android does, but there it's probably using another toolkit. It causes this exact problem - porting Firefox to a new system is impossible without rewriting all that.

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Sylos8y ago

Yeah, Android Firefox uses the native Android UI toolkit. A long time ago, they had it in XUL, which allowed for some really nice customization and just in general a more conform behaviour with the desktop browser, but performance back then was really just terrible, so that's why they changed it to the native Android UI toolkit.

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