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Really hoping tauri-cef doesn't have such massive massive downsides, hoping it still can be a shared library & not bundled. https://github.com/tauri-apps/cef-rs

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I agree. The webkitgtk situation is pretty bad. I haven't had the same kind of problems as the author because I haven't used browser features as heavily, but the performance on Linux is really poor right now.

Unfortunately it's the only viable (if only somewhat) non-blink web engine that is designed to be easily embedded in other software.

I don't know why, but architecturally Mozilla has gone down the route of making gecko tied to Firefox, and not easily embeddable.

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