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Also Gecko's development is led by people thinking that it being usable outside of Firefox\Thunderbird is a bad thing. There was a time when Gnome's browser was based on Gecko, not WebKit. And in general it's influenced by bad practices.
SerenityOS is an amazing project, of course. To do so much work for something completely disconnected from the wider FOSS ecosystem, and with such results.
So it's cool that they've decided to split off the browser as its own project.
That's always struck me as odd, but I'm also very much an outsider looking in. A "gecko electron" does sound intriguing though.
Servo is going to fill that void
Never heard of it, I'll check it out
I meant alternative browsers, like vimb or surf, but on Gecko and not WebKit.
Sorry, should've explained I was just responding to the first sentence in particular.
I wonder why Microsoft decided to switch from their own engine to Blink, they could've switched to Gecko and keep the web a little bit more free
Why would Microsoft care?
Because of the momentum behind Blink/Chromium.