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This is slightly unrelated but just curious about this: is there any documentations regarding why Brave is built using Chromium as the core browser engine? Since Brendan Eich founded Brave, it should be quite natural to base Brave on top of Gecko or maybe even Servo.

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I'm a co-founder on Brave. Brave was actually built on Graphene, which is Gecko at the start, similar to Mozilla's browser.html project which was created by paulrouget, Gozala, and gordonbrander.

We switched to Chromium within the first few months for various reasons including performance and HTML JS based APIs being ready across platforms.

We do want to move to Servo once it's in a more complete state, it just has a lot of years until it is ready.

That makes total sense, thanks a lot!

Servo is out of the question because it's still very much a tech preview and a lot of sites are broken in it.

I don't have any insights re: Gecko vs Blink.

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