Reasons to fork Firefox 55 as Basilisk's codebase?

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Reasons to fork Firefox 55 as Basilisk's codebase?

Unread post by Latitude » 2017-12-27, 16:42

Why not using Firefox 56 or Firefox 52 ESR's codebase?
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Re: Reasons to fork Firefox 55 as Basilisk's codebase?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2017-12-27, 17:35

Because neither of those options were good to build a platform off of.
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Re: Reasons to fork Firefox 55 as Basilisk's codebase?

Unread post by roytam1 » 2017-12-28, 06:51

Latitude wrote:Why not using Firefox 56 or Firefox 52 ESR's codebase?
56 has rust language locked-in, which is not good for (cross-platform) portability.
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