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Mozilla Code Repository Fork Unified XUL Platform

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday June 24 2017, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-fork-it dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

M.C. Straver, the lead developer of the Pale Moon web browser, has created a fork of the Mozilla Code Repository as a starting point for further development.

The developers of Pale Moon, a browser based on Firefox code, had to find a way to deal with the changes that Mozilla planned to make to the core of the Firefox web browser in 2017.

Mozilla plans to cut the classic add-on system from Firefox when Firefox 57 hits for instance, and remove XUL and XPCOM components from the browser in the process.

The team decided that it would continue development of the classic Pale Moon browser; what this means for users is that Pale Moon will continue to work like before, but won't follow Mozilla down the path.

The decision was made to fork Mozilla's code repository, so that it could become a potential base for Pale Moon in the future. It is not a given at this point that Pale Moon will use UXP in the future.

I'm inclined to agree lately, fork a bunch of Mozilla.

Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/21/mozilla-fork-unified-xul-platform/

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @09:44PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @09:44PM (#530700)

    Wow! A small open source project stops being a patch-kit mod of some big project, goes full fork. That's like, newsy. Yawn.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Zyx Abacab on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:17PM (5 children)

    by Zyx Abacab (3701) on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:17PM (#530718)

    The real news here is that Mozilla is doing such a good job of alienating absolutely everyone that even other projects want to have nothing to do with them anymore.

    • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:53AM

      by KGIII (5261) on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:53AM (#530765) Journal

      Once upon a time, I donated money and they put my name in a newspaper ad. That's not that special, as it was full of thousands of other names. (I was near the bottom right, I still have a copy.)

      I don't regret that - but I don't use Firefox. I haven't used them for years. I went back to Opera. It's not entirely like Chrome, actually. I do miss the older Opera but I like the new features and stability. It's not bad.

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      "So long and thanks for all the fish."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @07:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @07:10AM (#530816)

      Mozilla's own staff apparently largely uses chrome too.

    • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:06AM (2 children)

      by TheRaven (270) on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:06AM (#530842) Journal
      So how do you want them to address the security issues? Every web browser other than Firefox uses a multi-process model to sandbox tabs from each other and sandboxes plugins and extensions. Firefox extensions run as libraries loaded into the process and have complete access to all tabs, all browser state, and can share state for multiple tabs in memory with no explicit mediation between them. How would you make this architecture secure, without breaking all existing Firefox extensions?
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      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Wootery on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:52AM (1 child)

        by Wootery (2341) on Sunday June 25 2017, @11:52AM (#530850)

        Not sure if this is what you're alluding to, but Firefox is now multi-process. [mozilla.org]

        • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday June 26 2017, @11:15AM

          by TheRaven (270) on Monday June 26 2017, @11:15AM (#531257) Journal
          No, not really. They've made some starts in that direction, but they're not yet using the multi-process architecture for proper isolation and they can't without breaking extensions. They have plans to do so, but everyone keeps complaining about it.
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