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Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser (ghacks.net)
In a forum entitled "Cyberfox and its future direction," the lead developer of Cyberfox proclaimed the death of their web browser. The lead developer, Toady, writes: "Over the years the Cyberfox project has grown immensely and its thanks to all the amazing support of our users and has been an amazing couple of years this however has demanded far more of my time causing me to drop allot of projects and passions id like to pursue, the time factor this project has demanded has also take a toll lifestyle wise as have the changes made by Mozilla requiring more and more time to maintain so its come to a point where i recently had to assess the direction of this project and the direction i wish to head for the future. This has being no easy choice and the last few months allot of thinking about the direction of this project has taken place." He continues, "This project has been amazing no one could ask for a better project or community sadly as much as i love this project my heart is no longer fully in it, dreams of pursuing game development were pushed aside and lifestyle steadily declined ultimately slowly coming to this point where changes and choices have to be made ones that will affect this project and the future of what i have spent all these years building." Ghacks Technology News reports: The death of Cyberfox, or more precisely, the announcement of end of life for the web browser may come as a shock to users who run it. It should not be too much of a surprise though for users who keep an eye on the browser world and especially Mozilla and Firefox. Mozilla announced major changes to Firefox, some of which landed already, some are in process, and others are announced for 2017. [Some of the critical changes:] Multi-process Firefox is almost done, plugins are out except for Flash and Firefox ESR, Windows XP and Vista users are switched to Firefox ESR so that the operating systems are supported for eight additional releases, and WebExtensions will replace all other add-on systems of the browser. That's a lot of change, especially for projects that are maintained by a small but dedicated group of developers such as Cyberfox. The author of Cyberfox made the decision to switch the browser's release channel to Firefox 52.0 ESR. This means that Cyberfox will be supported with security updates for the next eight release cycles, but new features that Mozilla introduces in Firefox Stable won't find their way into the browser anymore. UPDATE 3/07/17: We have updated the headline to clarify that Cyberfox, specifically, is the browser that will be coming to an end. We have also added an excerpt from the developer's post. Toady clarified at the end of his post: "The largest factor was lifestyle a nicer way of saying health issues without making it to personalized."
They're half-right, anyway - Cyberfox IS based on a dead web browser. /ducks
#DeleteChrome
Now You: What's your take on the death of Cyberfox?
Who cares? I have used Firefox a very long time (Netscape Gold anyone?) and never heard of this.
Firefox has the plug-ins and configuration options I want (like turning off the malware that is Web RTC and bullshit like pocket).
I'm not going anywhere and (even IT) people are consistently amazed when I show them a website they're used to being spammed mercilessly on without the ads.
Hardly "death of *the* web browser", just "end of a particular Firefox fork that only about three people ever cared about anyway".
The title would have been corrected if BeauHD wasn't so busy trying to download as much transsexual porn as he could before the death of the web browser.
Cyberfox is a Firefox-based browser
Stopped reading.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
I've been impressed with the pioneering work done by Cyberfox and Pale Moon in terms of helping to get Firefox (and probably other browsers) moving forwards by showing that what people are asking for are valuable for the user community at large.
I'm sure the workload for supporting a modern browser (even if it based on a code base like WebKit and/or Firefox) must be incredible and thanx must go out to Toady and the team.
Hopefully additional non-corporate browsers will continue to proliferate to help show the big guys where things should be going.
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I used Cyberfox for years. The second that Mozilla started there own native 64-bit I saw little point.
Maybe they meant, "Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Their Web Browser"? Still... it's a bit melodramatic, don't you think?
When he was 22 the future looked bright
But he's nearly 30 now and he's coding every night
I see that look in his face he's got that look in his eye
He's thinking how did I get here and wondering why
It's sad but it's true tech society says
His life is already over
There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say
Til the company of his dreams comes along picks him up and pays him a salary
It seems so unlikely in this day and age
He's got an alright job but it's not a career
Whenever he thinks about it, it brings him to tears
Cause all he wants is a stable income
He gets one-night gigs
He's thinking how did I get here
I'm doing all that I can
The browser will only run in the cloud but you will need Internet Explorer installed to access it.
. /. piling on th eissue of the closing of the Internet.
This concept has been noted and written about for a few years that I know about. It is good to see a more mainstream site like
"Cyberfox is a Firefox-based browser..."
Guy who builds browsers says "browsers are dead!"
Okaaaaaaaaaay.....
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Original:
"Cyberfox Developer Proclaims Death of Web Browser "
After editing:
"Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser "
Change the position of one word to achieve truthiness.
FF has been sucking more and more so I switched to CF. Its sad to see it go. Looks like its palemoon or waterfox if you don't want a chrome based browser. Cyberfox was the closest you could get to regular firefox without the extra baggage.
What is Cyberfox? How is it different than Firefox? The summary mentions Mozilla, and I know that Mozilla makes Firefox, but I have used Mozilla products for about 15 years, and I have never even heard of Cyberfox. Did someone just have a stroke and replace all occurrences of "fire" with "cyber"?
Your submission should answer more questions than it raises!
I realize this is pedantic, but how can the lead developer not know the difference between "a lot" and "allot". I don't see him divvying up the software to give chunks out, I see him disbanding the project..
/end_pendantic
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I'm still using Cyberdog...
How is this news? It's very clear from that data what's going on. And it's just one Google search away from your finger tips. Game over, thanks for playing. Chrome FTW.
We'll make great pets
allot?
Once that idiot is done with his browser, he can tackle the English language.
Cyberfox usage has now doubled from 6 users to 12. Plans for more releases in the works!
It started back in Team Fortress Classic
Where we come to read about newly dead products that we never knew existed in the first place.
What was this "Radio Shack" thing, anyway?
Also... "allot".
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
Now he'll have time to take some English classes. Yikes.
To the old forks home?
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