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0 pointssyshum7y ago0 comments

At the time they made those choices there were 3 main reasons to choose chromium over FF as a base

1. Smaller Size, chromium was just a smaller foot print with less legacy code

2. Better Performance. There was no doubt the before firefox quantum Chromium was the performance leader, Bink and V8 where superior then, today not soo much

3. Better rendering support. Like IE6 in the 90's today there are many many sites that ONLY work correctly on chrome, so if you use chrome's render you have less work to do, and will have less complaints by users blaming your browser for some websites poor code

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glandium7y ago· 1 in thread

More relevant: better embedding story. Gecko is not exactly great to embed.

vthriller7y ago

No idea why you're downvoted: things like [0] are marked as obsolete, GtkMozEmbed et al. are basically dead, and there's no viable alternatives except when you use Android [1]. The only option is to dive deep into Thunderbird's mess of a source code and learn things the hard way, hoping Mozilla will not change things a lot in a road to post-Quantum future.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko/Embed... [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/GeckoView

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