mima wrote on May 29, 2023 at 1:02 PM (edited on May 29, 2023 at 1:08 PM)

Reply to comment by idkalice in How do we feel about Mozilla? by TwentyFiveCharsOrLess

I use Floorp which is an ESR rebuild for my Firefox/Gecko needs. It admittedly has a lot more "bloat" than LibreWolf, but I can cut them some slack as they closely follow Mozilla's ESR security fixes (within 1 day of Mozilla's release!), make user customization a lot user-friendly (kinda like Vivaldi), and it's developed by a two-man team of Japanese students (which I guess explains the bloat, I think it's a Japanese cultural thing to pack as much things into one as possible).

Unfortunately as I said earlier it is following ESR, which means I will be missing some newer features found in the latest stable rapid release. Might not be a big deal for you, but for me it kinda is because I do want a latest reference Gecko I can compare to at any time without resorting to using Mozilla directly. There's a rebuild called Mercury which does follow Mozilla's rapid release schedule, but it lags very hard behind the latest release, and it currently is at 112 even though 113 has been available for like a week now. It also requires at least a CPU with AVX instructions supported. And the dev (only one-man) has so many active projects (fork of Chromium called Thorium, with many different builds including a Windows 7 compatible one, as well as a fork of ChromiumOS called ThoriumOS) that I seriously doubt they can do real QA and stuff on their browsers. So can't really recommend it. And I don't know of any other good rebuild that is on the rapid release train...

Haven't used Konqueror much so don't have an opinion about it...

idkalice wrote on May 29, 2023 at 1:19 PM

thank you! i don't think esr bothers me personally

sorry for asking another question, what about pale moon? you've said that you're a developer for it

mima wrote on May 29, 2023 at 11:48 PM

Hey, if you want to try Pale Moon, then try it! It's one of the most customizable browsers out there, and is one of the few that is truly developed independently. It's just that I'm not sure whether it would be a good idea to evangelize it as a developer lol (I'd rather let the power users do that), and it has web compat issues which can be a deal breaker (though we've massive improved on that front since the release of 32.1.0 enabling WebComponents support by default, which was a big headache for us at the time, and just recently 32.2.0 this month, adding support for other big headaches like dynamic module import and JavaScript's C++-like class fields)...