On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Amogh Pradeep <[email protected]>
wrote:
> If we use GeckoView inside of Lightning, we have a much simple
browser, albeit one that still supports tabs, bookmarks, etc.
The only problem is that it'll be too simple a browser. Some of the
minute details that the browser has will be missed out. Also,
GeckoView seems to have a lot less people working on it than the
browser itself. Will tabs be available if we use lightning? Many
people want to see tabs.
Lightning is a very nice browser. It has tabs, bookmarks, and all the
expected browser features. In some ways, the UI is more try to Android,
as well.
I really do like Fennec, but again the more features you have, the more
things you have to worry about securing.
>
> 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.
>
Will continue with the build write-up, hopefully we can get that done
asap and replace orweb at least, because I do think that the fennec
browser is better than orweb, don't know about other people's
opinions!
It depends on what you define as "better". Orweb was designed to be as
simple a browser as possible. It opens web pages, and allows basic
navigation. It wasn't meant to do much more. It was never intended to
compete with Fennec. I am worried that by going the other direction
entirely (huge, full feature browser), we will then start having a ton
of bugs related to other privacy and data leaks.
Regardless, I think you should stay focus on Fennec. The Lightning team
(Anthonycr) is looking into the GeckoView possibility. Perhaps we can
have a bake-off! :)
+n
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