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		irrational on Sept 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes Is Gecko open-source? If not, I hope they do open-source it before ditching it.

varbhat on Sept 17, 2020 [–]

Ofcourse, Gecko is Open Source. There are many forks of Gecko and Firefox too.

Browsers would be forked then. But,maintainance and adding features require lot of effort which is almost impractical by single dev/group without much funding in the world of ever changing large web.

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