Roll Your Own Browser

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 25, 2002 @05:37AM 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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Security by JohnHegarty · 2002-09-25 05:39 · 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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dreaming of centralized cookies and bookmarks by Dr.+Awktagon · 2002-09-25 05:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

On OS X and Linux (and occasionaly FreeBSD) I've used: Mac Explorer, Chimera, OmniWeb, Mozilla, Konquerer, Lynx, and now playing with Phoenix..

If only they could share bookmarks, cookie preferences, and site passwords. Across machines! Securely! Is anybody working on this? Is LDAP the answer?
1. Re:dreaming of centralized cookies and bookmarks by digidave · 2002-09-25 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yeah, all we need is some kind of centralized login system to do this. It could hold all of our browser data, credit card number, etc to make browsing the web easier.
  
  Now all we need to find is a company that wants to write software to control all online transactions, profide centralized login and store our private information.
  
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Is excessive plurality really useful? by hobbs · 2002-09-25 05:54 · 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.
why is that... by g0st · 2002-09-25 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

why is it that all alternative browers sound like topless dancer names? opereta, phoenix, aphrodite..
Free online book by slothdog · 2002-09-25 06:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Also related is that O'Reilly has released "Creating Applications With Mozilla" under the OPL, and can be found in its entirety here: http://books.mozdev.org/

(Apologies if this has been mentioned before; I did a quick search and didn't see it.)
Re:my 0.2� by Golias · 2002-09-25 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Tonight on DIY: How to make your own browser, using only Mozila!
Tomorrow on DIY: How to make a working automobile, starting with nothing but a brand new Nissan Maxima.
Friday on DIY: How to make a Pizza with nothing but a phone and $15.

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Re:How is this different from IE? by slug359 · 2002-09-25 06:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually exactly the same is true for the Gecko engine, there is a COM object for it, you drop it into your VB/Delphi project and use it in 30 seconds.
It also uses _exactly_ the same properties, methods and events, so you just change the name of the gecko control to the name of your IE control, and it works, I've done it.