New Browser Engine

[KdogDevs]

Since Mozilla has changed its privacy policy, I was wondering if it would be possible to shift Zen from using Firefox to using an open-source browser engine like Ladybird? I think this could give Zen "more control" and influence over the final product and what things the browser can and can't support. What do y'all think?

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

[JSGRD22]

1. No, ladybird is still very early in development and unsuitable for use
2. Mozilla has not changed its privacy policy

[Lu9-ST]

^ Yep, even if Mozilla did, that wouldn't impact the browser engine itself or its open source status in any meaningful way. Mozilla only keeps Firefox/Gecko, much like Google only keeps Chromium/Blink. Other browsers wouldn't even be using Chromium if Google's entire business model, practices and policies also had to apply to their browser engine (in a way it kinda did with the whole Manifest V2 and V3 fiasco, but even with that some forks are mitigating the issue as much as possible)

In short, It won't happen. Especially at this point in development, changing the entire browser engine would be a tedious and unnecessary that would yield insatisfactory results