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Author:  forquare1 [ Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Mozilla drops Gecko embedding
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Camino—the Gecko-based browser with a native Cocoa user interface—is considering switching its underlying rendering engine to WebKit. Developer Stuart Morgan announced the proposed change this week after Mozilla effectively put an end to the project that supported embedding Gecko into other software. While the team is still putting the finishing touches on a long overdue 2.1 update, which would finally bring rendering parity with Firefox 3.6, the small group is looking to recruit help to make the transition happen.


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This seems to have hit the Camino community rather hard...Personally, I think that the change will be for the better, though it'll be a lot of hard work to change the core like this.
Author:  steve74 [ Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla drops Gecko embedding
Bugger, Camino's my main browser at work at home - it's fast, light and speedy on my modest PowerPC Macs. Whilst it has lagged behind Firefox for features and Gecko security releases, it's still my preferred browser as it feels more like a Mac app to me - more so than Firefox and Safari. It would be a shame if it disappeared or got all bloated and slow (which I find Safari 5 is on PowerPC Macs), but hopefully it's not the WebKit part of the browser that slows it down - just the implementation of it or the feature-bloat in the browser itself. Camino doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Firefox and other browsers, but in many ways that's its best "feature" - and why it feels so snappy and responsive. I just hope that philosophy continues.
Author:  rustybucket [ Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Mozilla drops Gecko embedding
Hmmm.... bit of a dumb move on Mozilla's part.

The champion trophy of open-source effectively kills off an ally by being less accessible than WebKit.
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