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I'm waiting for someone to fork Firefox and strip out anything not totally necessary to strictly browse 99% of the web, to make it light, fast, simple and memor

I'm waiting for someone to fork Firefox and strip out anything not totally necessary to strictly browse 99% of the web, to make it light, fast, simple and memory-efficient. They could even rename it something familiar... something that envisions lightness and speed... like "Fire Bird".... Or better yet, "Phoenix"!

anthk 10y ago
That's SeaMonkey, and paradoxically, it's the old full Mozilla suite pre Phoenix but with current features, and is much faster than Firefox.
- yoasif_ 10y ago
  I love Seamonkey (I have to reinstall it on this machine as I haven't used it in a while), but it's also behind the Firefox dev cycle and doesn't offer the same level of extension coverage that Firefox does. It'd certainly be very interesting if the could maintain the latest browser fixes (even with less extension compatibility), but I doubt the team has the bandwidth to keep that up. Just installed it. It doesn't support High DPI displays on Mac OS X. Unfortunately, that's a bit of a blocker for modern Mac laptops (everything looks fuzzy).
  - anthk 10y ago
    Report a bug, or look at about:config settings. https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-get-firefox-looking-right-on-a-high-dpi-display-and-fedora/ https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-get-firefox-looking-right-... apply those to seamonkey.
MichaelGG 10y ago
What stuff can they remove to make Twitter.com fast and light? I'm guessing a lot of code is there to mitigate the insane shit modern "web developers" come up with.
pcwalton 10y ago
> I'm waiting for someone to fork Firefox and strip out anything not totally necessary to strictly browse 99% of the web, to make it light, fast, simple and memory-efficient. A version of Gecko that contains only the things necessary to browse 99% of the Web exists. It's called Gecko. Sites use the Web features.
peterwwillis 10y ago
Nobody got the joke. :/

anthk 10y ago

That's SeaMonkey, and paradoxically, it's the old full Mozilla suite pre Phoenix but with current features, and is much faster than Firefox.

yoasif_ 10y ago
I love Seamonkey (I have to reinstall it on this machine as I haven't used it in a while), but it's also behind the Firefox dev cycle and doesn't offer the same level of extension coverage that Firefox does. It'd certainly be very interesting if the could maintain the latest browser fixes (even with less extension compatibility), but I doubt the team has the bandwidth to keep that up. Just installed it. It doesn't support High DPI displays on Mac OS X. Unfortunately, that's a bit of a blocker for modern Mac laptops (everything looks fuzzy).
- anthk 10y ago
  Report a bug, or look at about:config settings. https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-get-firefox-looking-right-on-a-high-dpi-display-and-fedora/ https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-get-firefox-looking-right-... apply those to seamonkey.

MichaelGG 10y ago

What stuff can they remove to make Twitter.com fast and light? I'm guessing a lot of code is there to mitigate the insane shit modern "web developers" come up with.

pcwalton 10y ago

> I'm waiting for someone to fork Firefox and strip out anything not totally necessary to strictly browse 99% of the web, to make it light, fast, simple and memory-efficient. A version of Gecko that contains only the things necessary to browse 99% of the Web exists. It's called Gecko. Sites use the Web features.

peterwwillis 10y ago

Nobody got the joke. :/