Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H)

[Development] Posted Mar 31, 2011 21:09 UTC (Thu) by jake

The H describes Mozilla's plans to remove the ability to embed the Gecko layout engine into other programs. This will affect projects like the Galeon browser and other programs that currently embed Gecko. "In a posting to mozilla.dev.embedding, Embedding Module owner Benjamin Smedberg said that Mozilla had been considering the future for embedding Gecko in other applications. He cites the difficulty involved to date, the expected complexity of moving to a multiple process model and the desire to "strongly prioritize" Firefox as the key product of Mozilla. There is a possibility that embedding support could return in the future after Mozilla has moved Firefox to a multi-process model, but the developers are not going to [prioritize] that as a goal in their design work."

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