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I think that we are getting too dependent on this browser/engine (Chrome/Chromium/Electron and the many others derivatives).

This will create serious issues in the future regarding how Google is caring about respecting the market, the standards and their users in general.

Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.



> Hopefully Mozilla has done a quite impressive work on Firefox those past few months and I personally don't see any advantages anymore for Chrome.

I use nightly and it is pretty good. Quite a few things are broken in nightly in Android but I can use nightly as my main browser (besides for hangouts which Google has yet to implement). Edit, we have pocket on Firefox though so https://getpocket.com/blog/


It seems crazy to me how may projects depend on Chromium and V8 directly.

Hopefully with Firefox's new improvements some of this will change.


Aside from community support, what is preventing Firefox's JS engine from being used to power a JS runtime?


Nothing really, and people use it for that. For example, https://github.com/0ad/0ad/tree/master/libraries/source/spid...


More to come with headless Chrome a thing.


Headless Firefox is a thing, too.


FF Quantum is quite nice, highly recommended.




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