irenaeous's Journal: Why Mozilla is commited to Gecko as Webkit popularity grows

ars technica has published this article, about Mozilla's continue use of the Gecko rendering engine instead of using Webkit" which was adopted by Apple and Google for use in the Safari and Chrome browsers.

I have been using Chrome on my work PC and find many of its features compelling, and wonder how soon we will see its best innovations in Firefox. Why is Gecko worth keeping if it is outdated and bloated?