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I hate chromium (fanaticus.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Actually, the top one is the logo of the chromium browser engine, but the bottom one is not the logo of the Gecko browser engine. That's the logo of SpiderMonkey, Firefox's Javascript engine (Chromium uses V8).

This is the logo for Gecko:

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Firefox doesn't even use Gecko anymore, it uses Quantum. I think it still uses spidermonkey though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is not correct.

Firefox still uses Gecko for its HTML engine. Quantum was a project to incorporate some learnings from Servo, and other larger performance projects, into Firefox components, including Gecko.

Just an aside, but Servo was never intended to replace Gecko, and was only intended to be a R&D project for improving some Firefox components. This was due to the long-tail of web compatibility that would be required to make Servo a suitable replacement for Gecko.