Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Waterfox Browser

waterfox.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 111 posts

Re: Waterfox Browser

#11

Post by simula67 »

ravenstine wrote: post #7
gruez wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK the main selling point is xul (legacy) extension support.

I guess if someone really needs to use a legacy extension, it's a good thing that it's around, but I'm personally glad that XUL is dead both from a developer standpoint and as a user.

Not me. I lost DownThemAll[1] and TabWheelScroll after the extension overhaul

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DownThemAll!

Re: Waterfox Browser

#12

Post by Causality1 »

ravenstine wrote: post #7
gruez wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AFAIK the main selling point is xul (legacy) extension support.

I guess if someone really needs to use a legacy extension, it's a good thing that it's around, but I'm personally glad that XUL is dead both from a developer standpoint and as a user.

I don't care about the technical details as a user as long as I can get the functionality I want. I want to be able to move UI elements around like menu bars, tabs, bookmarks bar, address bar. I need DownThemAll or something equal to it to work because I use it a dozen times a day.

Re: Waterfox Browser

#15

Post by ab8 »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #3

I don’t get it, the concern is that Firefox sends telemetry to Mozilla? Can’t you turn that off?

I suppose the difference is that in Firefox you have to opt out of it, and in Waterfox you opt in (?). The default makes a difference, since most users don't know about it.

Re: Waterfox Browser

#19

Post by kevin_thibedeau »

smacktoward wrote: post #9
ravenstine wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess if someone really needs to use a legacy extension, it's a good thing that it's around, but I'm personally glad that XUL is dead both from a developer standpoint and as a user.

Yeah, projects like this give me the heebie-jeebies, to be honest. NPAPI and XUL were discontinued for really good reasons. Some users say they still want them, but that's because (1) people hate change, even when it's good for them and (2) they don't really appreciate all the security baggage those old APIs were lugging around with them. Projects that assure those users that they can keep on trucking with their old…

The problem is that the replacement is crippled and Google is clearly more interested in stripping features from the extension API. I'm still waiting for a way to hide the tab bar which is a privileged UI feature now.
Post reply on HN