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		agi0 on May 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GeckoView for Android > Keep in mind that GeckoView may not be used to build a browser. Rather it's often an engine used to drive an application built with web technologies. So a developers requirements for updates are different than an interactive browser of arbitrary web content. It most certainly can :) the new Firefox for Android uses GeckoView.

poutine on May 8, 2020 [–]

Yep, of course.

To clarify: when I said “may not” I meant in the sense “might not” rather than it isn’t permitted.

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