Geckoview Alternatives

geckoview reviews and mentions

• Mozilla needs to provide an alternative to Electron
  2 projects | /r/firefox | 10 Nov 2022

  Warning, I don't really know what I am talking about on this subject. But that said! I believe the replacement is GeckoView

• Why Firefox Is Seeing a Continuous Decline for Last 12 Years
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2021

  I stand by what I said - their code is a convulated mess by design. It's 25 years and they still haven't modularised their code that anyone can use the Gecko engine on the desktop and creating competing browsers. All anyone can do is create a clone of Firefox, which ofcourse, cannot really compete with Firefox or other desktop browser as it will still have all the flaws of Firefox. And this is what Mozilla wants.

  They may have started with altruistic reasons, but after tasting Google's money, their greed corrupted them.

  Mobile is a good example. Mozilla realised it was in a precarious position on the mobile platform, which is dominated by Chrome, Opera and Safari. And so they have now been forced to release the Gecko rendering engine for mobile ( https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview ) and are encouraging others to create mobile browsers, in the hopes that this may provide a fillip to Mobile Firefox. Desperation drove them to this move as the money is now in mobile platform (Google paying 15 billion dollars to Apple / Safari highlights this).

  If they can do this for the mobile platform, why can't they do it for the Desktop platform too?

  This kind of deliberate convulated code mess is like a "dark pattern" where in you know the developer isn't really interested in supporting the open source movement. Yes, there are many other open source projects that have poor code or lack documentation, but unlike the Firefox project, none of them has 100's of millions of dollars at their disposal - it's a travesty how they have wasted all that money!