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Chromium/WebKit is available as a library in various ways; Gecko isn't really.

I had hoped for Servo to fill that gap at some point, but so far that hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579

Another possibility is for Geckoview to be ported to Desktop platforms some day: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - something the people behind Tridactyl would like to happen: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64

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Mozilla is actively hostile to anything that smells like "libfirefox". This is a big part of why they killed xulrunner.

This is really sad. IMHO their adoption numbers would not still be plunging if people had a way to insulate themselves from the large, random, and often undesired changes in the UI that are forced upon users with each Firefox security update.

I'd pay for a book that sheds light on the questionable decisions Mozilla has made throughout the years and the rationale behind them.

From where I'm standing, they seem to consistently make the poorest decisions.

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