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Positron - Firefox version of Electron. "Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko" https://github.com/mozilla/positron This would have changed so much. Desktop apps powered by the engine of Firefox not Chrome. Why? Not enough company…

comment by thinkingemote · 2025-10-12 · in Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

I would like to see them re develop positron (firefox + electron) https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by thinkingemote · 2025-03-26 · in Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

You mean positron? https://github.com/mozilla/positron They did try to build that, and gave up.

comment by Moomoomoo309 · 2024-07-08 · in I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

Mozilla used to work on it: https://github.com/mozilla/positron Currently I'm guessing https://tauri.app/ would be the easiest way to get away from electron.

comment by SahAssar · 2023-09-06 · in Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

…[2] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-embed-gecko-... [3] https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by heavyset_go · 2022-03-26 · in Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?

Mozilla has been trying to build an Electron alternative based on Gecko, but it has been discontinued https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by rd07 · 2021-11-29 · in Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

…gecko. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner [1]: https://github.com/mozilla/chromeless [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/positron [3]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210227132731/https://mykzilla.o... [4]:…

comment by jd3 · 2021-08-30 · in Building a Desktop Application for Datasette

…discontinued in 2017 [1]. AFAIK the only thing around nowadays is GeckoView [2] for Android. [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/positron [1]: https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/ [2]: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/

comment by avery42 · 2021-05-20 · in Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0

…[0]: https://preactjs.com/ [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/positron [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt

comment by jd3 · 2021-05-12 · in Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

…based Electron was tried: Positron. It was scrapped for some reason or other (lack of traction?): https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by jw14 · 2020-08-14 · in Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

…appreciate (and have been shouting into the wind about) focus on the embeddability of Gecko. 0 - https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by kodablah · 2020-01-15 · in The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview

XULRunner was killed off for webapps, which was killed off for https://github.com/mozilla/positron , which was killed off for nothing. On the bright side, Servo is designed for embedding, although it's a lot more work than something like…

comment by fzzzy · 2019-08-29 · in Thank you, Chris

…app shell that used Gecko instead of Chromium/Node.js/V8. Positron has also been discontinued. https://github.com/mozilla/positron The developer who was working on Positron went on to develop qbrt, which is a CLI interface to a Gecko app…

comment by commoner · 2019-02-05 · in A web browser reference implementation using Mozilla Android Components

There was one started called Positron, but it was discontinued in early 2017. https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by neonhomer · 2018-12-21 · in Electron 4.0.0

https://github.com/mozilla/qbrt is a continuation from https://github.com/mozilla/positron - last commit 6mo ago though. Probably what is needed is a killer app - VS Code, Slack, Spotify...

comment by crc32 · 2018-12-21 · in Electron 4.0.0

…affect adoption that much to be worth the effort. 0 - https://github.com/mozilla/spidernode 1 - https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by kodablah · 2018-12-04 · in Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

Latest commit on Mar 8, 2017 https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by cpeterso · 2018-06-21 · in Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

…Electron developed over Firefox internals. Tried, but abandoned presumably based on prioritization: https://github.com/mozilla/positron . I was hoping Servo would help here, but from the outside looking in, the pieces are being moved into…

comment by kodablah · 2018-04-05 · in Making a Statically-Linked, Single-File Web App with React and Rust

…app shell for creating desktop apps based on Gecko, the rendering engine used in Firefox." https://github.com/mozilla/positron but they failed: "As noted in the blog post Positron Discontinued [1], this project has been discontinued. The…

comment by AlbertoGP · 2018-01-27 · in Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

…the new engine), using less memory etc. Looks like positron used to do this but is now dead :( https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by hayd · 2017-11-14 · in Firefox 57.0 Released

I believe you're looking for Positron: https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by ZenoArrow · 2017-07-25 · in Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust

It already exists: https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by owaislone · 2017-06-22 · in Firefox 56 supports headless mode on Windows

https://github.com/mozilla/positron is a thing, though not under active development right now.

comment by bzbarsky · 2017-04-21 · in Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies

…Another lightweight alternatives to Electron are: Mozilla Positron ( https://github.com/mozilla/positron ), Webkit for Android/Windows ( https://github.com/daewoong-jang/webkit-android ) and Qt Quick ( https://www.qt.io/qt-quic

comment by niutech · 2017-04-16 · in Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

…for them to use Electron than to contend with Gecko's ossified embedding APIs. Hopefully positron ( https://github.com/mozilla/positron ) will allow us to use Gecko in the future. 2) Firefox iOS uses WebView not by choice, but because of…

comment by dblohm7 · 2016-09-27 · in Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

…as long as core Firefox kept working. Even when it did work, working with XPCOM sucked. Positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron is the new XULRunner. WIP, doesn't actually work yet. :-(

comment by dfabulich · 2016-07-07 · in Make the Web Work for Everyone

They are actually already doing this[1]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by Etzos · 2016-07-06 · in Make the Web Work for Everyone

…experiments like the Positron project, which is making Gecko able to host Electron applications: https://github.com/mozilla/positron

comment by rhelmer · 2016-05-11 · in Firefox Test Pilot

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Mozilla's experimental Gecko+Electron framework

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