358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.324s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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thinkingemote ◴[12 Oct 25 08:12 UTC] No.45556330[source]▶

Positron - Firefox version of Electron. "Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko" https://github.com/mozilla/positron

This would have changed so much. Desktop apps powered by the engine of Firefox not Chrome.

Why? Not enough company buy in, not enough devs worked on it. Maybe developed before a major Firefox re-write?

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1. pzmarzly ◴[12 Oct 25 13:07 UTC] No.45557987[source]▶

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You may be happy to hear that the new Fedora installer is using Firefox under the hood. Ephemeral profile dir on startup, plus custom userChrome.css to hide most of Firefox UI, and I couldn't tell a difference between it and Electron.

https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda-webui

I wish RedHat made an easy-to-use framework out of it.

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