Re:Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
by anonbanker on Sunday August 07, 2016 @04:27AM
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this is very much not true. Phoenix was not intended to extend the featureset.
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Re:Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
by icebraining on Sunday August 07, 2016 @06:31AM
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From the release notes of Phoenix 0.1:
> Not only does Phoenix aim to match the featureset of Mozilla -- subtracting features deemed geeky and better offered as add-ons -- but it extends it. For example, it adds customizable toolbars and quicksearch in bookmarks and history. It will soon offer an add-on manager, a better wallet, and a new downloads sidebar pane.
http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_r...
Re:Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
by anonbanker on Monday August 08, 2016 @12:48AM
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Yeah, it was really nice when it didn't have the add-on manager yet. just a small, XUL-based browser. Made me switch from Galeon.
Still didn't ever complete the suite, though; Thunderbird tackled email, Sunbird handled contacts. Good thing, too; Seamonkey was a pig on my pentium 133 w/32MB RAM. Played quake fine, but just couldn't handle Seamonkey. Phoenix got me extra life out of my ancient hardware.
Re:Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
by groovy2shoes on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:37AM
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These days, Xombrero is getting me the same sort of extra life out of my ancient (or otherwise under-powered, e.g. Raspberry Pi) hardware. It's a very light frontend to GTKWebKit with a glorious vi-like UI.
Now I wonder if it would be worth making something similar in XUL...