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> The current Mozilla Gecko codebase has seen a flow of constant major changes and api removals in the last 2 years and is no longer really usable for our needs
by untog 7y ago
> The current Mozilla Gecko codebase has seen a flow of constant major changes and api removals in the last 2 years and is no longer really usable for our needs. By the end of the year the SeaMonkey project is expected to be completely independent of Mozilla
Wow, that’s... something. Keeping a browser engine of that size maintained independently is going to be quite a task.
- TingPing 7y agoIt's simply not possible without a large well funded team.
- rubidium 7y agoI really don’t understand this. All my current browsers don’t need more features. They didnt 5 years ago either.
- untog 7y agoThere are security updates, for one. Plus there are a bunch of CSS improvements and the like in the last five years. If you don’t keep up with the competition your users are going to see broken sites eventually.