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Hi all,<br>
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First, I was just reading an article on the new multi-process
capabilities of Firefox vis a vis Electrolysis. Can anyone speak to
the relationship of Electrolysis to TB? I'm guessing there is none
(meaning, TB will never benefit from Electrolysis)?<br>
<br>
Then I encountered an article about Firefox's upcoming replacement
for Gecko, named Quantum, that, according to David Bryan, Head of
Platform Engineering at Mozilla, is supposed to "start delivering
major improvements to users by the end of 2017".<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a3b7174b3c12">https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a3b7174b3c12</a><br>
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This was very interesting to me since I've never heard of Quantum. I
had read about what I thought was another new engine being developed
by Mozilla called Servo some time ago, but it had sounded like it
was a long way off, and a little googling reveals that Quantum is
apparently the official name of the new engine which is written (I
think) in Rust, and uses the 'high performance components of Servo',
so I guess 'Servo' is just the 'tech' behind it? Also, the
expectation of Quantum being implemented *this year* is significant
news (to me at least) too.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum</a><br>
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This is a little confusing to me, so if I messed any of that up,
please correct me.<br>
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I don't recall ever hearing mention of Electrolysis in relation to
TB, and the same goes for Servo/Quantum, so - is this 'the problem'?
Gecko is being replaced by Quantum, which apparently has no XUL/XBL
glue? Thus these are two of the new features of Firefox that TB will
never benefit from due to the growing incompatibilities from
XUL/XBL?<br>
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It sounds to me like Quantum, while being implemented incrementally,
is really ultimately deprecating Gecko itself, not just a couple of
components of it (XUL/XBL).<br>
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Thanks<br>
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