276
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zyratoxx@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I mean, I like Firefox, but I'd love to see Vivaldi based on Firefox/Gecko. There's Floorp, which is similar in some ways but it's more like an Edge built on Firefox than Vivaldi.

Edit: Thank y'all for your answers. :D

I want to link !@bdonvr@thelemmy.club 's post because it is a similar quesion. https://thelemmy.club/post/718914

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Gecko was probably based on early 90s code but it wasn’t out until 2000. It’s still older than almost everything else though.

[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Actually ff is the old Netscape navigator which was popular in the early to mid 90’s. When Netscape didn’t take off like they hoped it was retooled a little bit and turned into ff

[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 7 points 1 year ago

When Netscape didn’t take off like they hoped it was retooled a little bit and turned into ff

Don't you mean "when Microsoft abused their monopoly to crush the competition it was open sourced"?

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. That still doesn’t change how Gecko (which is basically a rewrite of the old Netscape engine) was not released until 2000.

this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
276 points (98.9% liked)

Asklemmy

43027 readers
1670 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS