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Developers are free to spend their time on whatever projects they wish, but I suspect that Waterfox users will quickly run into the tradeoffs between customizab
by mmastrac 9y ago
Developers are free to spend their time on whatever projects they wish, but I suspect that Waterfox users will quickly run into the tradeoffs between customizability and performance that the Firefox team made.
It's a noble effort but I suspect there just isn't a big enough community to keep a XUL-based browser (plus the extensions themselves) moving forward while being as secure, web-standard-current and fast as Firefox proper.
- moosingin3space 9y agoI'm not sure that there will be many XUL extensions left maintained after a while -- since no major browser supports them and the fact that WebExtensions is a much easier framework for development. As a result, I don't see much of a future in Firefox pre-Quantum forks.
- bkdbkd 9y agoYes, in time there won't be any XUL extenions. But what do they say we are all supposed do with that tiny nagging:'it worked yesterday, but not today' problem?
- semi-extrinsic 9y agoFirefox's Extended Support Release, which will keep getting updates for almost a year, certainly helps. I've been on ESR because of vimperator/pentadactyl not being portable, plus some other extensions like FoxyProxy, Tree Style Tabs etc. But today I discovered tridactyl works well enough on latest FF to suit my vim-ish needs, while the other two have been fairly completely ported.
- kibwen 9y agoThanks for the tip about tridactyl, I've only seen Saka Key so far in this space.
- michaelmrose 9y agoNeat saka tridactyl and vim vixen several interesting choices
- Elvewyn 9y agoI did not like Saka Key (some weird behavior sometimes), but Vim Vixen comes close to VimFx.
- khedoros1 9y agoPlus, there's already Pale Moon, which shares a lot of the same goals that this one seems to.