On: I tried Servo

[goku12]

Honestly, dumping gecko would be a suicide for Firefox. Much of Firefox's minuscule userbase consists of knowledgeable nerds who are holdouts from the Blink monoculture.

[sbstp → goku12]

Using WebKit (even JavaScriptCore) and working with Apple wouldn't be the worst thing to my eyes as a Firefox/FOSS user. Duopoly isn't great but it's better than a monopoly.

[zavec → goku12]

My main concern is manifest v3, I would be incredibly annoyed if I had to switch to a browser that broke ublock.

[goku12 → zavec]

I think they're trying to switch to MV3 without removing the features that let uBO and the others work.

[dralley → goku12]

So start replacing bits of Blink with Rust, instead of bits of Gecko.

Maybe their primary addressable market is nerds, but I guarantee more people quit using Firefox because of websites not working correctly or Google's marketing than because of any of the things that HN loves to complain about.