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Gecko should be decoupled from Firefox (embeddable)

It should support hardware APIs like Web Serial API (their stance that a browser is not an app platform is ridiculous)

Chromium's huge and underappreciated weakness is that their font rendering on Windows is horrible (at standard 96 DPI anyway), FF could've capitalized on things like that.



After pause, there is still ongoing development on embeddable engine: https://servo.org/




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