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Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H)Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H)Posted Mar 31, 2011 23:04 UTC (Thu) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111)Parent article: Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H)
Galeon has been dead upstream, and on life support in distros for a very long time. I don't think there are any real users of gtkmozembed anymore.
The javascript engine (mozjs) is still being used in a few places (most notably in GNOME Shell via gjs). But if they continue being apathetic, I guess we'll have to move to WebKit/seed.
I do wonder what effect this will have on xulrunner-dependant projects such as Songbird will they permanently fork off xulrunner?
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Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H) Posted Mar 31, 2011 23:09 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Songbird has been dead on Linux for a long time.
Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H) Posted Apr 1, 2011 8:35 UTC (Fri) by nirbheek (subscriber, #54111) [Link]
However, embedding occurs outside of Linux too :)
Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H) Posted Apr 1, 2011 9:11 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
That would be more like bundling and forking.
Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine (The H) Posted Apr 1, 2011 1:53 UTC (Fri) by roc (subscriber, #30627) [Link]
This announcement was about Gecko only. Embedding of the Javascript engine (Spidermonkey) will still be supported.
Using xulrunner to run applications like Thunderbird and Songbird will still be supported too.
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