Dactyloidae Browser (Basilisk fork)

[ownedbywuigi]

Nice job, a Linux release before that would be cool tho.

With the recent Python 3 introduction, I should give Linux compilation another shot in 13.2

[Mæstro]

Is this fork experimental, as a vision into a world where Mozilla thought WebExtensions should be yet another extension type beside XUL, NPAPI and Jetpack, or do you actually intend this for users who wish a browser with flat design and WebExtensions, yet favour the Goanna engine? What has been your motivation in this?

[ownedbywuigi]

Is this fork experimental, as a vision into a world where Mozilla thought WebExtensions should be yet another extension type beside XUL, NPAPI and Jetpack, or do you actually intend this for users who wish a browser with flat design and WebExtensions, yet favour the Goanna engine? What has been your motivation in this?

To answer your questions:
1. There isn’t a single vision for my fork, I just fuck around and find out I guess.
2. My motivation mainly is to increase the speed and responsiveness of the Goanna engine, at first it was just an ‘experiment’ fork but since my optimisations have gotten popular, I decided to make speed my main motivator for this fork. The theme was just a nice bonus since I am fond of the early Metro design (probably coming from me growing up with early Windows 10)

[ownedbywuigi]

Can now confirm (?) that Dactyloidae has the same speed as LibreWolf (latest) in real world testing (loading YouTube, and other "real world" sites)

[ownedbywuigi]

Will be taking a short break from development to upstream the notable changes into UXP.

Expect some cool stuff

[walmar]

Hello everybody.

WebExtensions support comparable to Firefox ESR 78

- UXP/README.md in main - UXP - Dactyloidae Repos

Pardon, based on my own observations: The tested Dactyloidae version 13.1 pre-release 2 seems to be missing some basic WebExtensions features.

The Redirector extension is supposed to work with FF 42+, for example.

In my main browser Waterfox/56.6.2022.11 from 2022 it works just fine – this also supports overlay, bootstrapped and add-on SDK extensions.

With Dactyloidae, the buttons in the popup do not work and the console returns, among other things, the following lines.

tabs is undefined popup.js:27
WebRequest is not defined ext-webRequest.js:120

Similar results occur with popups from other extensions such as uBlock Origin, Violentmonkey or Polly/Polly+.
It seems to me that WebExtensions with a user interface do not function as intended without the missing functionality.

As much as I would like a new browser with a similar range of functions to the discontinued FF 56 and its fork, I would like more clarity.

Please reply, ownedbywuigi, whether you are still working on the aforementioned missing functionality or plan to work on it in the near future, or whether the limitation will be accepted for an indefinite period.

Thanks for your efforts.

[ownedbywuigi]

Hello everybody.

WebExtensions support comparable to Firefox ESR 78

- UXP/README.md in main - UXP - Dactyloidae Repos

Pardon, based on my own observations: The tested Dactyloidae version 13.1 pre-release 2 seems to be missing some basic WebExtensions features.

The Redirector extension is supposed to work with FF 42+, for example.

In my main browser Waterfox/56.6.2022.11 from 2022 it works just fine – this also supports overlay, bootstrapped and add-on SDK extensions.

With Dactyloidae, the buttons in the popup do not work and the console returns, among other things, the following lines.

tabs is undefined popup.js:27
WebRequest is not defined ext-webRequest.js:120

Similar results occur with popups from other extensions such as uBlock Origin, Violentmonkey or Polly/Polly+.
It seems to me that WebExtensions with a user interface do not function as intended without the missing functionality.

As much as I would like a new browser with a similar range of functions to the discontinued FF 56 and its fork, I would like more clarity.

Please reply, ownedbywuigi, whether you are still working on the aforementioned missing functionality or plan to work on it in the near future, or whether the limitation will be accepted for an indefinite period.

Thanks for your efforts.

I have not ported EVERYTHING from Waterfox Classic, these aforementioned issues with WebExtensions and other features from Waterfox Classic will be addressed in 13.2.

Again, apologies for the WebExtension issues, I did not know which extensions to test properly during 13.1 development, aside from the ones I use on the daily.

It seems like my porting of WebRequest from MyPal68 didn't work as well as I thought, will also fix in 13.2. Thanks for your feedback.