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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.
I read about that here: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/mozilla-sets-plan-to-dump-firefox-add-ons-move-to-chrome-like-extensions/
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?
What is servo?
Servo is brand new browser engine, developed by Mozilla together with Samsung.
It is supposed to replace Gecko in some future...
Thanks for the info about servo. Is it expected to run on Windows?
It should. But we are too distant now from something finished so it hard to say firmly.
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.
FF's market share on desktop below 12 %:
https://netmarketshare.com
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2015 06:31PM by panzer.
This is not the first recent article that I have seen on this subject.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2977506/web-browsers/mozilla-mobile-misstep-puts-web-at-risk.html
All which isn't K-Meleon related.
Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
rodocop
Date: August 24, 2015 09:03AM
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.
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
JamesD
Date: August 24, 2015 11:02AM
I read about that here: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/mozilla-sets-plan-to-dump-firefox-add-ons-move-to-chrome-like-extensions/
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?
What is servo?
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
rodocop
Date: August 24, 2015 06:13PM
Servo is brand new browser engine, developed by Mozilla together with Samsung.
It is supposed to replace Gecko in some future...
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
JamesD
Date: August 24, 2015 11:42PM
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).
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
rodocop
Date: August 25, 2015 03:16PM
It should. But we are too distant now from something finished so it hard to say firmly.
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
Dorian
Date: August 26, 2015 07:23PM
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.
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
panzer
Date: September 01, 2015 06:30PM
FF's market share on desktop below 12 %:
https://netmarketshare.com
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2015 06:31PM by panzer.
Re: Mozilla going away from XUL and XPCOM
Posted by:
JamesD
Date: September 02, 2015 12:54PM
This is not the first recent article that I have seen on this subject.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2977506/web-browsers/mozilla-mobile-misstep-puts-web-at-risk.html
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