Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
by cm3 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @10:36AM
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Have you tried using Vivaldi? It's awfully slow to respond to user interaction because it's all HTML. Say what you want about XUL, but for something aiming to be like HTML it never felt slow. If Vivaldi's non-existing responsiveness is what the new Firefox will be, then they should seriously consider to rewrite the whole thing like a game (in OpenGL/Vulkan) instead. Oh and XUL was optimized for memory efficiency, which will have to be reoptimized for the HTML-only interface, but that can benefit the whole web.
Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
by angry-hacker on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @12:40PM
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Vivaldi is much faster than Firefox on both Linux and Windows, where I'm using it. Of course it's still alpha software, but the UI is blazing fast compared to FF.
Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
by cm3 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @03:29PM
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It's substantially slower than Chromium and Firefox for me on Linux. Both Chromium and Firefox are very fast in comparison on my machines. I'm glad it's faster for you, I really am.
Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
by lsh on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:11AM
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I do believe Otter is doing a better job of restoring Opera's past glory, feature-wise. Vivaldi, even with it's HTML gui feels like another opera/chrome/chromium derivative.
My hope is that Mozilla will take the direction of using Servo to build something Vivaldi-like (instead of everybody running with Webkit/Blink) and start to restore old API:s and frameworks from old XUL-Firefox that all the best old addons relied on (things llike NoScript, Session Manager, Vimperator, uBlock, Tab Mix Plus, etc...) instead of just sticking with a blackbox rendering engine and settling with Chrome addon API parity.