Servo VS uBlock-for-firefox-legacy

I pulled last changes to see the new tabs and surprised by RTL support because few weeks ago not supported

I see there PR merged: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/33148

Don’t think this really fits in with HN guidelines.

Seriously, check out https://servo.org , they post monthly updates and the progress seems great. And their repo, too - too bad GitHub can’t display code frequency because there’s too many commits in the project.

Here's the (relatively small) commit: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/32477/commits/d9b842ff6e...

It's using the par_iter() method from Rayon, a Rust data-parallelism library: https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/iter/index.html

Rust is definitely used in Firefox, but Servo[0], which was going to be the replacement browser engine (or at least the testbed for that), was abandoned by Mozilla, in a limbo for some time and now under new stewardship.

On a meta-level, I think the story that people like to tell is that Mozilla chose increasing executive compensation rather than using the same money to keep the Servo (and people working on Rust itself) employed.

[0]: https://servo.org

The following Mastodon toot is about https://servo.org that could become another alternative. Quote :

"Servo is faaaar from ready for general use yet, but it's picking up development speed. Definitely an option to keep an eye on for the future. "

Why is Ladybird getting so much attention. Has anyone herd of servo? They're trying to offload css rendering to the gpu. That could be a big deal in the long run.

https://servo.org/

Does anyone know, how it compares to Servo?

https://servo.org/

Check what is happening in Servo (https://servo.org). Some active members also want something very modular, and this is helped by work being actively done to use the engine in various contexts.

I use memory saver on Chrome and it helps substantially but Chrome just doesn't feel right. It might be the most secure browser out there but performance is lacking. Modern software should be more efficient than this. There is open-source Rust browser engine in the making called Servo (https://servo.org/), I hope they eventually come up with more efficient browser.

Extensions explicitly designed for the old extension system still work.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy

Also works with Pale Moon. There are even special builds of Pale Moon that will run on Windows XP.

Mozilla SeaMonkey still has the HTML editor (and has been updated within a year!)

If you want to test it out, make sure you install https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/release... from there, because it won't show up in the extensions search.

Of course you can: XPI file

I recommend Pale Moon http://www.palemoon.org/ (definitely doesn't steal your data, or tracks you at all. It also doesn't do bloat or junk. In fact it even uses less resources than chromium or firefox) with adblocker (advanced) https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/ and/or (average) https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases

Firefox 59 & Mypal 29 work with Ublock Origin Legacy <-use this link if GitHub's broken

Mypal 29: click this link: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases/download/firefox-legacy-1.16.4.30/uBlock0_1.16.4.30.firefox-legacy.xpi & follow the prompts.

i'm using pale moon and this legacy fork of ublock origin, which quite possibly is the issue.

for adblocker there is https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases , for windows xp x64 there is https://archive.org/details/WindowsXP_Professional_x64_SP2

Pale Moon supports XUL add-ons, but there is uBlock Origin among others. Which are you lacking?