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That's always struck me as odd, but I'm also very much an outsider looking in. A "gecko electron" does sound intriguing though.
Servo is going to fill that void
Never heard of it, I'll check it out
I meant alternative browsers, like vimb or surf, but on Gecko and not WebKit.
Sorry, should've explained I was just responding to the first sentence in particular.
I wonder why Microsoft decided to switch from their own engine to Blink, they could've switched to Gecko and keep the web a little bit more free
Why would Microsoft care?
Because of the momentum behind Blink/Chromium.