Fenix
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Fenix | Servo | |
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750 | 132 | |
6,681 | 25,759 | |
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7.7 | 9.9 | |
about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
Kotlin | Rust | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Fenix
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Website Search Hurts My Feelings
It's been that way for years: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20351
I lost hope it and other issues would be fixed and moved to Chromium on Android.
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Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile
Since Fenix's first release they've been saying that the absurd limitations on add-ons support were only temporary, and they would have quickly increased the number of supported ones.
And instead absolutely nothing changed for three years.
Furthermore the insane bugs from which Fenix suffers from its release (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731) (making it unbearable) have been left hanging, focusing the few resources on dumb ui experiments.
So everything suggested that Mozilla did not care of its Android browser, or actually that they were deliberately sabotaging it.
This news instead represents a huge improvement, hence my bewilderment.
I don't know what people who downvoted my message thought I meant.
- Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
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Firefox Address Bar Tips
This was sadly deprecated on Android: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12099
It was such a huge loss for me that for at least a year I used the outdated pre-Fenix. Now they still work on Desktop but they just stopped working on Android (althouth the bookmarks itself are synced-up)
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scroll position problem on iPadOS?
Bug is still persistent, however I have found a case of this bug happening before; https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7382
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Firefox Android VR only plays audio, not video
Another user who reported a similar issue was told to watch this bug report: Using an HTML video element as a texture source with WebGL no longer works. It's set to highest priority level, but unfortunately hasn't received any attention lately.
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What CHROMIUM-BASED browser are you using right now?
If you are curious, I'm an Android tablet user and this is the reason why I don't use Mull or Fennec. Apparently is a problem common to all Fenix browsers.
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What does Clinical SAS code base look like?
Code Base is large with 10's and 100's of files. And there is dependency and Execution in between all of them. Example: Firefox App , NextCloud App
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Why do people hate Firefox Android?
Because they removed support for bookmark keywords, which I use quite regularly. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12099
Servo
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CSS for Printing to Paper
> Is there any easy to use/hack HTML layouting engine where I could experiment with custom CSS attributes and bridge that gap? Would anything from Servo be suitable?
Servo could be used for this. You'd want to add support for parsing the CSS properties themselves to the style crate in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo. You do effectively get a whole browser though.
I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable layout engine based on a combination of https://github.com/servo/stylo (for css parsing and selector resolution), https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (for box-level layout) and https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (for flow/inline layout). I expect to have something decent in around 6 months
Neither of these setups currently have any support for pagination though.
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The Ladybird Browser Project
Great to see some competition still alive in browser engine development. See also Servo (previously part of Mozilla) https://servo.org/ - that and Ladybird are still very underdeveloped compared to every day browsers.
It's a huge shame that there are no nightly builds of ladybird to try out but I assume that's because they just don't want the bug reports (if everything doesn't work it's pointless getting random bugs filed).
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Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' Project Is Getting a Well-Deserved Reboot
I haven't messed with it yet but from looking into it, this should absolutely work.
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-on-ARM-desktop-...
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An open-source browser engine written in Rust
don't know, there was a downtime in 2021 and 22 but since 2023, contributions look back to where it was before .. https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors
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Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
The world has moved on though to opinionated tools, and Rust isn't even the furthest in that direction (That would be Go). The equivalent of those two lines in Cargo.toml would be this example of a basic configuration from the jacoco-maven-plugin: https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/examples/build/pom.x... - That's 40 lines in the section to do the "defaults".
Yes, you could add a load of config for files to include/exclude from coverage and so on, but the idea that that's a norm is way more common in Java projects than other languages. Like here's some example Cargo.toml files from complicated Rust projects:
Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/Cargo.toml
rust-gdext: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext/blob/master/godot-core/C...
ripgrep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/Cargo.toml
socketio: https://github.com/1c3t3a/rust-socketio/blob/main/socketio/C...
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Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
1. Servo
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Populating the page: how browsers work
To pain broad strokes, the layout phase (~= take the HTML, take the CSS, determine the position and size of boxes) is largely sequential in production browser engine today. Selector matching (~= what CSS applies to what element) is parallel in Firefox today, via the Stylo Rust crate originally developed in the research browser engine Servo. Servo can do parallel layout in some capacity (but doesn't implement everything), https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep... is an interesting and recent document on the matter.
Parallel layout is generally considered to be a complex engineering problem by domain experts.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en... is a really cool article that is related, that is a few years old but what it says is largely correct today.
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Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more
[Article author/submitter here]
I can only tell you that it is not what this is about, inasmuch as I was at the talk and there was not a single mention of Firefox Reality or Wolvic in the talk.
Wolvic might use Servo – but I think if it did they would mention it, right?
The talk didn't and the word "Wolvic" does not occur anywhere on https://servo.org
So I am guessing not, no.
Igalia has -- or rather is because it's a co-op -- about 100 developers. They are not all working on the same thing.
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
If Rust is a must, surely contributing to Servo[1] and learning by sending small PRs to start with would be more beneficial.
However, I do understand as I've done this kind of "from scratch" project before just because I thought I could do it better or because I couldn't get into reading the existing codebase easily. To each their own...
What are some alternatives?
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
qtwebengine - Qt WebEngine
xi-editor - A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
xsv - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
darkreader - Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension
multi-account-containers - Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.
Fractalide - Reusable Reproducible Composable Software
Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.