Well, iirc touching gtkmozembed would require such an enormous amount of work that me & Android_808 decided to leave it.

There was an idea to base on the Sailfish Browser code and simply redo the UI. We do need Qt5 for it. But we need Qt5 for anyhow decent webkit too.

We might too reuse some of the code from here https://github.com/marmistrz/microbe and qmlmozbrowser.

Another (non-exclusive) idea was to use the Qt Quick Controls. But due to the lack of working Qt Quick Controls examples no one took this idea. Or maybe simply no one had the time then.

As for Gtk3, you don't want to do it unless you update the system core. It's a real dependency hell.
<OT> What's the current state of the Jessie + Hildon on N900</OT>

There's a lot of information in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...39#post1434839
Including information about webkit not being further developed (thus formerly banned from Jolla Harbor)

My two cents: I'd go for reusing the Jolla Browser code, as we might not have 'nuff manpower to build the browser from scratch. Go for embedlite, as it seems to be quite actively developed (even if for jolla phone). And go for Qt5, to be compatible with what is done for Jolla. And use Qt Quick Controls if they give the native look and feel (but we need examples for it to check the performance)