Last news about Mozilla plans lead us to think about future of K-Meleon again.
What do you think?
How would all these changes impact KM?
1) Electrolysis (multiprocess mode);
2) Refusal from XUL and XPCOM in favor of WebExtensions;
3) Possible migration from Gecko to Servo.
As for me, it seems to be a bifurcation point of opportunities: on one hand it could kill KM in perspective - on another hand it could give it new development impulse, making some devs and power users migrate from future 'chromed Firefox' to the old good classics, provided by K-Meleon.
The addons only have a couple of years and then they won't work anymore.
The extensions for FF will have to be digitally signed. Would our extensions need to be signed? How does one sign something? Where would we learn about the new API's?
Thanks for the info about servo. Is it expected to run on Windows?
Quote github
Servo is a prototype web browser engine written in the Rust language. It is currently developed on 64bit OS X, 64bit Linux, Android, and Gonk (Firefox OS).
1) Break kmeleon here and there. Annoying.
2) Webextensions, should have be done already, kmeleon could support them
XUL is a different thing and obsolete since years.
3) Nice project, with an html interface it would be easily configurable.
Too bad they still doesn't have a working prototype.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/26/2015 07:23PM by Dorian.