(let's keep this discussion open on guardian-dev list)
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Amogh Pradeep <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey n8fr8, so what's it going to be? Do we use fennec or just gecko view? In my opinion, I think it's better to use fennec, although it's not going to be an easy task to move the torbrowser patches to it just yet!
My greatest concern is that Fennec seems to have a huge amount of features (web apps, marketplace, offline reading, mozilla sync, etc), many of which are unique to Android. We need to make sure all of that code is secured, properly proxied, doesn't leak DNS, etc. If we use GeckoView inside of Lightning, we have a much simple browser, albeit one that still supports tabs, bookmarks, etc.
I spoke to Georg Koppen and he said that the next update to the browser bundle will come out later this year when firefox 31 ESR is released, he said that this release will need the plugins to be modified to suit the new structure of the browser which is going to be similar to the mobile browser. So the best thing to do right now, I think, is to continue hacking on Fennec and making it as secure as possible while we wait for 31 to release, once that releases, we can finish the browser and make it complete like the desktop browser.
Okay, so good to know that the desktop and mobile browser roadmaps will be converging. Hopefully, then the Tor Browser patches will grow to cover all the features I listed above.
Also, I've pulled the git repo and built it, it's very simple and can easily be automated, I still haven't figured out the part on how to make it create an apk from cli , will figure this out and we'll be able to put this up in the coming week hopefully!
Well, at some points its either an ant or maven command in the right directly!
Please continue to work on your BUILD write-up, and setting up a new git repo with the mozilla one as an external git submodule.
+n
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