positron
a experimental, Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko (by mozilla)
gecko-dev
Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html (by mozilla)
| positron | gecko-dev | |
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| 17 | 78 | |
| 529 | 3,122 | |
| - | 1.0% | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| almost 6 years ago | 7 days ago | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of positron.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-06.
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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
Mozilla used to work on it: https://github.com/mozilla/positron
Currently I'm guessing https://tauri.app/ would be the easiest way to get away from electron.
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One meme from my collection
They made an Electron-compatible replacement, Positron, discontinued.
- Firefox should have a webview
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What if Discord changed their Desktop app to use Firefox browsing engine instead of chromium?
Replacing Electron and rebuilding Discord from the ground-up would be quite the undertaking. What framework would you use? Firefox has tried to make an Electron-like framework in the past with Positron, but it has since been discontinued.
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Is there a way to build desktop apps using Firefox engine?
Mozilla Positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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How do you think Mozilla can better optimize Firefox (and Gecko)?
That way: * other browsers can base their engine on Firefox's * it's possible to make nodejs applications based on Gecko rather than Blink (i think it was called Positron) * other company can join and help them having an engine that is truely free and open source, where everybody can contribute and assure that the web standard is respected
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Chad Spotify
Yeah, totally. Mozilla started something that would do just that, but it looks like it's been abandoned for a while. https://github.com/mozilla/positron Not sure if anyone's made a fork that's being maintained.
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day 1 : so far so good
It’s been discontinued github/mozilla/positron
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Created a comparison table (Firefox vs. the big three): feedback?
Firefox has project seperated from it's browser, just the problem is it never took off and only stay as... a relic of the past https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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Chrome says nom-nom
They did, twice. But they both were really unused.
gecko-dev
Posts with mentions or reviews of gecko-dev.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
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Making Web Component properties behave closer to the platform
You can see how Mozilla tests the compliance of their built-in elements in the Gecko repository (the ok and is assertions are defined in their SimpleTest testing framework). And here's the Web Platform Tests' reflection harness, with data for each built-in element in sibling files, that almost every browser pass.
- Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc -- Never installs on any fresh Linux distro (see comments)
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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
The source is mirrored on GitHub here: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
Code search is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/
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Firefox 113.0, New Features, Updates and Fixes
Yes. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/32c74afbb24dce4b5d...
- -moz-box and -moz-inline-box removed at v113
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Pinch Zoom with Mouse Wheel is too Slow = How to Adjust Zoom Increments?
aWheelInput.mDeltaY looks like the increment setting used for this https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/9033e3e1200acfd4b8f8ae024c215b99d12b97bdTried "mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y" and "mousewheel.with_control.delta_multiplier_y" without much luck.It may have something to do with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138704 although this case is about pinch zoom emulation.
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Why does firefox (at least waterfox) not support H.265?
You could add the feature by writing code to support is - https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html
- A Quarter Century of Mozilla
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
I checked Firefox monorepo, it has over 4x more C++ than Rust.
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Fetched and build the code of the "release" but it's produced Nightly version
Are you leaving steps out or is your OP exhaustive? If you just straight up cloned release and that's it, start all over and follow https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html for your OS
What are some alternatives?
When comparing positron and gecko-dev you can also consider the following projects:
firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
qbrt - CLI to a Gecko desktop app runtime
WebKit - Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
FirefoxPWA - A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox]
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
youtube-music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
policy-templates - Policy Templates for Firefox
datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.