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Originally posted by atomsymbolI am not following Servo closely, but its development speed seems relatively slow to me. Has there already been a release of Servo as a proper package in some Linux distribution? I don't have a Servo package in Gentoo Linux, neither it is listed at http://gpo.zugaina.org.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostHow will Browser.html integrate with the system and give a native desktop application experience on GTK and Qt based systems?
Will it blend in and look native or will it look alien?
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
Well, you may read all that on the forums, but that doesn't mean it's not bull. Chrome may be a lot of things, but it's not lightweight. Also, of all the browsers I know, Chrome seems to be the only one without an option to reject 3rd party cookies by default.
I ditched Chromium years ago when they started gettting too tightly integrated with Google Services (and thus trackers and ads). In Panopticlick I could never stop it from coming up unique even with JS disabled, so that was that and out it went. A privacy-respecting browser built on Chromium would require an audit of the code, followed by finding the things that make it so easy to track and fixing them. Firefox too now requires actively disabling cloud services, I so wish something like GNOME Web could use the Firefox extensions.
For me, the ideal browser would be a fork of gnome-web that uses CSD only in GNOME and not when over other DE's, that uses a traditional menubar, and for which NoScript's functionality is added by default, which always returns a random value when asked to send canvas data back to the server,and always uses Disconnect's blocklist like firefox does in a private window in "strict" mode. Alternately the whole Disconnect blocklist could go into /etc/hosts so the browser would not need to deal with it. Lastly it would need to pretend to be Chrome on Windows so far as the useragent is concerned. Good luck tracking it..
Last edited by Luke; 19 April 2016, 03:03 PM.
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Originally posted by zamadatix View Post
Settings -> Site Settings -> Cookies -> Allow third party cookies. Been there since I can remember mobile Chrome. At least look through the menus or do a search before you spout things as fact.
Still, Firefox is good enough for me, I only use Chrome on occasion.
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Originally posted by Michael_S View Post- Other people have repeatedly pointed out that C++11 and C++14 have a lot of the features in Rust, and a disciplined use of those versions of C++ in a new browser layout engine would probably be as good as Servo. I agree, but Rust and Servo were started in 2008. We can argue about the benefits of Rust over C++14 - I maintain there are some because Rust has stronger immutability by default - but it's unquestionable that Rust is a better choice for memory-safe code than C++03.
P.S. will VC++ ever get full C++11/14/17 support?
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Originally posted by ssokolow View Post
More "bye Gecko". Given the amount of branding that's gone into Firefox, they're more likely to wind up with a Servo+WebExtensions-based Firefox than to ditch it altogether.
(Similar to how WebKit was forked from KHTML and now there's a WebKit KPart you can use in Konqueror in place of the KHTML KPart.)
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Originally posted by Luke View PostUnless this new Firefox can fake the results in a canvas tracking (so it can render a canvas image but can't be tracked by it) like Canvasblocker, block javascript on a per-origin site basis like NoScript, and block connections to trackers like Disconnect or supports existing or new extensions for this purpose I will be unable to use it.
They're actually in discussion with people like Giorgio Maone to ensure that their WebExtensions efforts won't shut out or cripple extensions like NoScript.
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