Electron, WebKit, nope.
Kudos for experimenting with minimalism!
But this is not the alternative to Firefox I've been looking for.
> Electron, WebKit, nope.
Electron uses Chromium. Which uses Blink, not WebKit.
Well the worst part of Firefox is arguably Gecko.
If one could make a browser with Firefox's backend and instead render with Blink that would be pretty dope.
> a browser with Firefox's backend and instead render with Blink
Gecko is Firefox's "backend" ...
Isn't it just the rendering engine? There's more to a browser than just laying out html.
If you'd like to learn more about how a web browser project would organize its internal architecture, but are discouraged by the complexity of Chromium, Firefox, etc. I'd recommend source diving Ladybird (https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird), NetSurf (https://www.netsurf-browser.org/), or Dillo (https://www.dillo.org/).