At the beginning of the pandemic, this little guy was hiding in my home, between the rolls of paper towels. He was a welcome guest, seeing as how we were all locked down and isolated. I'd still appreciate the occasional lizard guest
#SailfishOS#Gecko dev diary Day 17. In which we're tackling things head on. Burnout, the removal of VarCache (for preferences) and the dawning realisation that GLScreenBuffer has been completely removed!
Every time I reinstall #Firefox I'm reminded that #Mozilla deliberately fails to sync my default search engine from my other browsers. I will probably continue to use Firefox until Mozilla dies, but honestly their death can't come soon enough.
The fundamental problem with any #Gecko based browser that's not #Firefox or any #Chromium based browser that's not #Chrome (or Chromium itself) is that they're always chasing a moving target. Neither has a stable API, because neither has embedding as a primary use case; their respective browsers are their primary use case. For a security update to reach a fork, it first has to hit the open source repo, then it has to get merged into the fork, and then the fork has to be released. This means there will always be some additional delay.
This might be fine if you have other concerns besides timeliness of fixes that the fork address. But unlike many on here I don't have privacy concerns about #Mozilla. By far my biggest concern about them is their dependence on funding from #Google. My second biggest concern is that their attempts to gain independence from that funding lead to things like #Pocket and ads in the browser. Which is why I say "die" rather than "gain independence from Google". I don't like what their vision of independence looks like. It's like they learned nothing from #Netscape.
#SailfishOS#Gecko dev diary Day 10. In which we go on a long train journey; get advice from mal on fixing hash tables; get help from @fabrice on fixing string literals; and have a bit of time left over to fix font initialisation.
For years I've returned to #Firefox as my web browser; I generally dig #Mozilla and think it's important to support #Gecko. Recently, I must admit I fell in love with many features of #Vivaldi from their nifty little worker-run company, such as workspaces, but it still lacked Firefox's containers and other features. Now I've discovered #Floorp and I'm absolutely loving it: based on Firefox, has all the appealing aesthetics of Vivaldi and the workspaces, but also containers! It makes my Gecko-lovin' geek heart happy. #WebBrowser#WebBrowsers#browsers
File this under Only-in-#Hawaii Problems: A baby #gecko has picked my car as his favorite spot to chill. I first noticed him clinging for dear life to the outside of my driver's side window as I was doing about 35 MPH, but that apparently didn't convince him the car isn't a good place to hang out. This pic was taken several hours later.