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Phoenix/Firefox was Mozilla's own lightweight alternative to SeaMonkey. Then Chrome was the lightweight alternative to a memory-hogging Firefox. Now Chrome is s
by cpeterso 11y ago
Phoenix/Firefox was Mozilla's own lightweight alternative to SeaMonkey. Then Chrome was the lightweight alternative to a memory-hogging Firefox. Now Chrome is seen as sluggish and a memory hog. Where do we go next?
- wvenable 11y agoServo, when it's done. And from there, who knows!
- cpeterso 11y agobtw, browser.html is a Servo experiment with "future UI paradigms": https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/ https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/
- Touche 11y agoIt says right on the page that it doesn't use Servo.
- Manishearth 11y agohttps://github.com/glennw/servo-shell https://github.com/glennw/servo-shell does though
- frik 11y agoI would like to switch to servo-shell sooner than later. Though there is no Win32/64 build of Servo. See Servo github issue "Get Servo working on Windows": https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908 https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908
- firasd 11y agoI suppose, as far as the web platform is concerned, we aren't really going to replace HTML/CSS/JS so increasing the speed and memory management of javascript rendering is the clear way forward, e.g. with Servo https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/
- hackmiester 11y ago...back to Seamonkey? :D
- cwyers 11y agoMicrosoft Edge?
- zanny 11y agoThere are a lot of alternative browsers, though almost all of them use Blink.
- ossreality 11y agoChrome isn't sluggish or even that much of a memory hog. People see a large number of processes... and have been using Chrome for years with all of their shitty fucking extensions installed.... and then pretend to be surprised that it's slower.\ For FUCK's sake, it still takes over 7 seconds to cold launch Firefox. That's Atom-editor level shit-ness.