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I mean, why not use Geckoview? Mozilla is doing something really nice and has the only full fledged browser with actual Addon support. Meanwhile GNOME and KDE have half-baked projects that use engines only really maintained by Google and Apple.
Yeah, I don't understand that either. It can be used for something like Electron to run web-like programs but no one does that too.
Well, Thunderbird does that. Thats it. Seamonkey and how they were all called were before my time.