I mean, I like Firefox, but I’d love to see Vivaldi based on Firefox/Gecko. There’s Floorp, which is similar in some ways but it’s more like an Edge built on Firefox than Vivaldi.

Edit: Thank y’all for your answers. :D

I want to link !@[email protected] 's post because it is a similar quesion. https://thelemmy.club/post/718914

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    Gecko was probably based on early 90s code but it wasn’t out until 2000. It’s still older than almost everything else though.

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      Actually ff is the old Netscape navigator which was popular in the early to mid 90’s. When Netscape didn’t take off like they hoped it was retooled a little bit and turned into ff

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        When Netscape didn’t take off like they hoped it was retooled a little bit and turned into ff

        Don’t you mean “when Microsoft abused their monopoly to crush the competition it was open sourced”?

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          Netscape navigator was designed to work with the Netscape online system when the internet was still young. Netscape system was in competition with AOL not Micro$oft. The Netscape system was an internet access protocol, like AOL, that ran on Windows. There was no competition between the two.

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        Yes. That still doesn’t change how Gecko (which is basically a rewrite of the old Netscape engine) was not released until 2000.

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          Fair enough, I stand corrected