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Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The developers of the Palo Moon browser are thinking of scratching their current codebase due to the fact that it doesn't support many of today's current Web standards, and because future Firefox plans will introduce incompatibilities within its codebase. The team plans to build a new browser from scratch, which they'll use to replace Pale Moon when it reaches a stable version. As with the old Pale Moon, the browser will keep Firefox's pre-Australis interface and still support many features removed in Firefox, like Tab Groups and full themes.

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  1. Microsoft should open source Edge. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hope that Microsoft open sources Edge, and ports it to Linux and OS X. Although I don't use Windows, I do realize that Edge is a fine browser that's getting better and better. The only thing holding it back is that it only runs on Windows.

    If it ran on the other major platform (OS X) and on minor platforms like Linux and FreeBSD, I could see it being the final nail in Firefox's coffin. In my opinion, Mozilla has repeatedly shown the user community that Mozilla doesn't give a damn about its users' wishes. That's why we've seen Firefox trashed, with one unwanted change after another, release after release, even after the community has begged Mozilla not to make these unwanted changes.

    Users are fleeing Firefox like there's no tomorrow. The stats show that Firefox is likely around 7% of the browser market on all of the platforms it supports. The stats clearly show that Firefox's users are going to Chrome and Edge.

    Open sourcing and porting Edge wouldn't be without precedent. Microsoft is open sourcing much of .NET, and porting it to other platforms. It's porting SQL Server to Linux. IE itself used to run on non-Windows OSes.

    Now is the time to Microsoft to truly free Edge. Doing so would push it as the main competitor to Chrome on all of the major platforms, finally burying the rotting corpse of Firefox and finally giving some real options to web users.