Well there were two available starting point, Firefox or Chromium. They picked Chromium. I am not sure how easy that decision was, but it doesn't strike me that Firefox/gecko would have been faster to wrap in a QML UI than Chromium/webkit
On Sunday, April 24, 2016, Krzysztof Tataradziński <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > For some time bothers me one topic. I'm not a programmer, so maybe answer to my question is obvious. In UT we have browser app created by Canonical team, yes? It's done almost from scratch and providing basic features. When UT was starting, why programmers team doesn't decide to, instead of creating new one, simply port ie. Firefox to fit UT? > Does porting Firefox would consume less resources that creating new browser? > It's general question for me - why there are many apps created again, istead of making some ports of existing apps? > Best regards, > Krzysztof Tataradziński > http://launchpad.net/~ktatar156 >
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