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		colejohnson66 on Aug 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store Is there any reason Electron couldn’t switch to, say, Firefox?

sebmellen on Aug 14, 2020 [–]

Electron is really 100% Chromium. I can't see them switching from it (though it would be nice to have a Firefox-base version).

jw14 on Aug 14, 2020 | [–]

A Firefox based Electron was tried: Positron. It was scrapped for some reason or other (lack of traction?): https://github.com/mozilla/positron

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