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		cout on Jan 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qutebrowser 2.0 My question still stands. If webkit is a bird and gecko is a reptile, then why are there (relatively) so few reptile browsers? Is it easier to embed engines from the webkit family, or are they popular because chrome and safari are popular?

toyg on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

Largely the former. The efforts to make Gecko easily embeddable, started some 15 years ago, have long floundered.

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