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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Gecko comes up
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:11 Brendan Eich We use the Electron framework when we switched from a private version based on Mozilla's Gecko engine to Chromium Blink, and using Electron was a mistake.
- ▶ 1:03:21 Brendan Eich And we did start with, with Mozilla Gecko in a multiprocess sandboxed, uh, framework called Graphene that was part of Firefox OS, which I'd worked on, but it just lost on this big spreadsheet we did where we just scored it against Chromium…
- ▶ 1:03:42 Brendan Eich Even if we use the Gecko source, you know, we have to go get Google Widevine, which Google made free as in beer.
- ▶ 1:04:07 Brendan Eich Gecko was never big on mobile because Mozilla was never big on mobile.