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Roll Your Own Browser

Posted by timothy on from the picture-your-own-throbber dept.

davidwboswell writes "Oreillynet is running an article about how to create your own browser with Mozilla. This is a follow-up to a previous article that surveyed many of the alternate Mozilla browsers currently available including Chimera, Galeon, Phoenix and Aphrodite."

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  1. Security by JohnHegarty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's there alot of security issues with that. I wouldn't use a browser from some guy called 'bob' that i never heard of, becuase he could be sending all my credit card details back to his server.

    This is going to help the likes of the people who added all those "extras" to kazza.

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    1. Re:Security by mnordstr · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Mozilla is not a web application. Slashdot is a web application...

  2. Come back again...for a better Round by buswolley · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This article seems to be one that can't be truly discussed until people mess around with the information the article gives.

    Maybe in a few weeks /. should come back to this and then ask what people think.

    or am I totally off-base?

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  3. Is excessive plurality really useful? by hobbs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it really useful to encourage more people to create more "forks" based on the gecko engine? I'm not against people playing around or doing whatever they want, but shouldn't we encourage people to consider working together more on some of these alternatives?

    It's a thin line to avoid the balloon and bloat of Mozilla while providing functionality that many desire. Many projects are doing this, but each needs more developers to seal the leaks and fix the cracks.

  4. galeon != xul by distributed.karma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Go check the Galeon manifesto. It does not use XUL. In fact one of the reasons Galeon was started is because they don't like the bloat of XUL.

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  5. Re:How is this different from IE? by kalidasa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All you gotta do is drop the COM object into a VB project. You can literally have your "own" browser in about 30 seconds. How's this any different?

    Try doing that in any non-Microsoft operating system. THAT'S what's different. You can get Gecko for nearly anything.

  6. Re:my 0.2� by be-fan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cross-platform similarity is only useful for a very limited range of applications. For the most part, its just annoying to users who want all their apps to look the same.

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  7. Re:my 0.2� by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yeah, great for develoopers, a total nightmare for GUI designers, users, and usability experts.

    *sigh* when will programers ever learn...

  8. Re:my 0.2� by SoupIsGoodFood_42 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Because consistancy is important in asthetics. I'd really hate to see what you're house looks like...

    Not just that, but consistantly is very important in design and usability.

    When grandma just gets the hang of all the widgets on OS-Whatever, then fires up Mozilla, only to be greated by a set of widgets she has never seen before, how do you think she's going to react? She probably won't understand it, and close it.

  9. Re:my 0.2� by jez_f · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this were true then why does M$ insist on messing about with the UI every time there is an OS upgrade. Win 3.1 was consistant (though V different from Win 3) 9x/NT were consistant but different, so we had to get used to a new UI and then XP is all different again. To my knowlege /bin is still in the same place it allways has been. If you wrote a XUL app it would be the same accross all platforms so people will not get confused when you upgrade or change the backend. Anyway if you really want I am sure there is a mozilla skin that makes it look like IE. Personaly I think XUL has a lot of potential. I have only looked into it, but it is next on my list of skills to learn.