Dactyloidae Browser (Basilisk fork)

[ownedbywuigi]

Small grudges I have had on browsers in Linux that are now fixed in Dactyloidae:

Dactyloidae is now (I think) the ONLY XDG compliant browser! (basically the browser's configuration will be in /home/.config/ instead of it's own folder in /home/)

No, looks like at least Brave puts its config stuff under ~/.config/BraveSoftware/

I normally discredit Brave for being a "Web3/Crypto" browser but this is one of those rare moments where it's better then stock Chromium.

[ownedbywuigi]

current plan for future releases if you were wondering
13.2 fix bugs from 13.1 and 13.0 and bring in new bugfixes and features from Waterfox Classic + Linux ports (maybe Win2K if I get MinGW done on time)
13.3 brings Dactyloidae up to date with UXP finally + BSD ports
13.4 port the final shit from Waterfox Classic (if it is needed)
14.0 NT 4 + SSE1 support + additional WebExtension support

[Moonchild]

Off-topic:

I normally discredit Brave for being a "Web3/Crypto" browser

If you dislike its Web3/service /affiliate pushing, you can now pay $60 for Brave Origin without all of that.

[ownedbywuigi]

Off-topic:

I normally discredit Brave for being a "Web3/Crypto" browser

If you dislike its Web3/service /affiliate pushing, you can now pay $60 for Brave Origin without all of that.

Off-topic:
Paid browser? Have we gone back 20 years in time? That's stupid IMO.

[Basilisk-Dev]

Off-topic:
There are forks of Brave with those features removed.

current plan for future releases if you were wondering
13.4 port the final shit from Waterfox Classic (if it is needed)

What is the final shit that needs to be ported?

[ownedbywuigi]

Off-topic:
There are forks of Brave with those features removed.

current plan for future releases if you were wondering
13.4 port the final shit from Waterfox Classic (if it is needed)

What is the final shit that needs to be ported?

Basically, if I forget to add any patches that wasn't already there, if you know what I mean.

[ownedbywuigi]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention but if you experience any web compatibility issues, please check if it is exclusive to Dactyloidae and not just a general UXP issue.

If it is exclusive to Dactyloidae, please either reply to this thread or private message me the issue, in which I will fix.

In the case of OS compatibility (Windows 2000 and below, OS X 10.6 or below), just private message me it.

[sofrosune]

Small grudges I have had on browsers in Linux that are now fixed in Dactyloidae:

Dactyloidae is now (I think) the ONLY XDG compliant browser! (basically the browser's configuration will be in /home/.config/ instead of it's own folder in /home/)

That's great . Thank you.

[walmar]

ownedbywuigi, thanks for your answers, attentive questions and regular updates. Very interesting.
I can hardly wait to try out the changes.

Unfortunately, I am currently very busy with other tasks. Next week I will try to put in writing my thoughts on the features of FF/WF 56 and WebExtensions that I have grown fond of and would like to continue using, as well as questions I have about the switch.

[ownedbywuigi]

(I think) I located the images-in-viewport recession, my own lazy-loading implemention. It worked when I was testing, so I'm confused as to why it doesn't work now.

Will revert it.

Unfortunately, I am currently very busy with other tasks. Next week I will try to put in writing my thoughts on the features of FF/WF 56 and WebExtensions that I have grown fond of and would like to continue using, as well as questions I have about the switch.

If you can identify specific things from WF56 you want me to backport, I'll work on that.

[ownedbywuigi]

I need some feedback from this prerelease. Please provide any, if you can. (64 bit Windows only)
This prerelease uses zlib-ng and MSVC's stdlib implementation instead of custom stdlib implementations.

https://repo.dactyloidae.xyz/Dactyloida ... 3.2-pre1.1

1. Do you think the speed is better then 13.1?
2. Is there anything you want me to change or add?

[ownedbywuigi]

Updated pre-1.1 with LoongArch support implemented. No idea if it works but I got it compiled.

[andyprough]

I need some feedback from this prerelease. Please provide any, if you can. (64 bit Windows only)
This prerelease uses zlib-ng and MSVC's stdlib implementation instead of custom stdlib implementations.

https://repo.dactyloidae.xyz/Dactyloida ... 3.2-pre1.1

1. Do you think the speed is better then 13.1?
2. Is there anything you want me to change or add?

Yes, the Windows version does seem more snappy. I don't have any benchmarks to share, but definitely feels like it is moving along pretty good in comparison to the last version. I watched a streaming video on rumble, and the browser UI seemed to freeze momentarily after the video was playing for about 15 seconds, but after a pause of about 1-2 seconds then everything continued without further hesitation.

I don't have any hardware to try a Loongarch version, that one may be hard to get tested.

[ownedbywuigi]

Yes, the Windows version does seem more snappy. I don't have any benchmarks to share, but definitely feels like it is moving along pretty good in comparison to the last version. I watched a streaming video on rumble, and the browser UI seemed to freeze momentarily after the video was playing for about 15 seconds, but after a pause of about 1-2 seconds then everything continued without further hesitation.

I don't have any hardware to try a Loongarch version, that one may be hard to get tested.

Got someone to test the LoongArch version, seemed to work fine.

I've got some extra things coming up for prerelease 1.2 or 2, whichever one I feel most comfortable being 'finished'.
Prereleases from now on will be Win64 only, mainly to save me from hours of compile time, etc (unless it's a platform change, in which it'll be Win64 and said platform)

Speaking of such actually, can you provide like a video on what said freezes are on while watching Rumble?

[ownedbywuigi]

I somehow fell asleep during the clobberbuild, but here's v13.2-pre1.2 (LoongArch and WIn64 only)
https://repo.dactyloidae.xyz/Dactyloida ... 3.2-pre1.2

Also:
I'm delaying 13.2 final release to either late June or mid July.
I have got college exams during this time (until end of May/early June), and unfortunately this browser is just a side hobby of mine so I cannot work on it full-time.

[ownedbywuigi]

Dactyloidae version 13.2 prerelease 2 out now!

For older releases (13.2-pre1.2, 13.1, 13.0, 12.1), refer to https://repo.dactyloidae.xyz/Dactyloidae/UXP/releases
For releases before 12.1 (12.0, 11.1, 11.0, old canary builds), refer to https://www.github.com/OwnedByWuigi/UXP/releases

NOTE THAT THE PROFILE FOLDER HAS CHANGED!
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OwnedByWuigi/Dactyloidae

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Eclipse Community/Dactyloidae

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/Da ... /13.2-pre2

[ownedbywuigi]

porting UXP to NetBSD, what happens next is shocking

[Basilisk-Dev]

porting UXP to NetBSD, what happens next is shocking

There are already people using UXP based browsers on NetBSD. Unless something is broken in your fork it should already work.

[ownedbywuigi]

porting UXP to NetBSD, what happens next is shocking

There are already people using UXP based browsers on NetBSD. Unless something is broken in your fork it should already work.

Yet another reason why I shouldn't have forked off roytam1. Cannot get past this, no matter what I do.

[andyprough]

Yet another reason why I shouldn't have forked off roytam1. Cannot get past this, no matter what I do.

I'm assuming that an advantage of forking from that project is that you can support some ancient OS's. But probably the disadvantage is that you won't be able to support some modern OS's. You may have to decide which timeline you want to plant your flag in, and whichever one you choose you could be stuck there for the long run.