On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 4:57:56 PM UTC-5, Brendan Eich wrote:
> I'm doing a startup and find myself in a (so far not consequential) 
> conflict of interest between Mozilla and Brave work. I'm also very short 
> on time. My roles have become vestigial-to-non-existent over time, so I 
> think this change won't affect Mozilla-the-project much. I would 
> appreciate it if someone would make the appropriate excisions to the 
> module wiki and bugzilla permissions. (I'll keep my bugzilla.m.o login 
> for now, but I shouldn't have s-s access.)
> 
> As I noted in the Brave FAQ (https://brave.com/FAQ.html),
> 
> 
>         5. Why aren't you using Mozilla's Gecko engine on laptops?
>         <https://brave.com/FAQ.html#collapseFive>
> 
> We were, under a partially sandboxed, multi-process architecture called 
> Graphene. But we did a careful head-to-head comparison and by every 
> measure, Electron/chromium won. We wish Mozilla well, but as a startup, 
> we must use all sound leverage available to us. For web compatibility 
> and in particular Chrome compatibility, this means chromium.
> 
> I wrote this myself and mean every word. Best,
> 
> /be

Is there any publicly available information on the measurements that you 
concluded Electron/chromium was superior? tx.
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