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Runtime based on Firefox' engine #9

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almarklein opened this issue Nov 2, 2018 · 0 comments
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Runtime based on Firefox' engine #9

almarklein opened this issue Nov 2, 2018 · 0 comments
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almarklein commented Nov 2, 2018 •
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Electron is nice, but it's heavy use of memory and multiple processes makes it less practical for small applications. Firefox is known to be much lighter in that respect.

Some background: Firefox' main engine is called Gecko, Servo is a more experimental version based on Rust, many features developed here have been backported to Gecko and also to Quantum, the successor of Gecko.

  • There was Positron but is discontinued.
  • Qbrt is a "CLI to a Gecko desktop app runtime".
  • Servoshell is something similar based on Servo.
  • Maybe we create an actual XUL app?
@almarklein almarklein changed the title Runtime based on Firefox' Runtime based on Firefox' engine Nov 2, 2018
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