7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gecko first-hand: 1 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We switched for hard-nosed wins of Chromium... out of the box vs. Gecko, most rows in the spreadsheet favored Chromium decisively.”
regret · production · BrendanEich · 2025-03-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started with Gecko in 2015, but it lost on many dimensions in a head to head comparison enumerating gaps vs. Chrome.”
regret · production · BrendanEich · 2020-01-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Chromium within the first few months for various reasons including performance”
regret · production · bbondy · 2017-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“grepping around in gecko is much harder than servo”
regret · production · bjwbell · 2015-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I know where everything is and I'm comfortable with how Gecko renders things.”
endorse · personal · 6 yr · thristian · 2010-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We started Brave in 2015 based on Gecko, using the Graphene multiprocess/sandboxing code from that era's FirefoxOS.”
neutral · production · BrendanEich · 2021-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“currently browser.html runs on top of a gecko runtime (called graphene) which is based on the one we use for FirefoxOS.”
neutral · production · fabrice_d · 2015-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?