Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-10-04 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Hi all, On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:56 PM James Willcox wrote: > Folks, > > As you may be aware, Fennec has been frozen on 68 ESR with the expectation > that Fenix will become the new Firefox for Android in 2020. For reasons of > hygiene and simplification, I propose that we begin removing Fennec

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread mark . erikson
Haha :) I both appreciate the "request to get involved" aspect, as well as the subtle "STOP WHINING AND CONTRIBUTE SOMETHING USEFUL!" aspect... I've repeated that phrase more times than I can count myself :) I actually am a maintainer of the Redux JS state management lib, so A) that already su

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread Jared Hirsch
Hey Mark, Since you've traveled this far down the rabbit hole already, seems like I should just _casually mention_ that contributions are welcome ^_^ You can learn about Mozilla's next-gen Android browsers and browser components here, if you're interested: https://mozac.org/contributing/ https:/

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread mark . erikson
Yeah, this kind of detail was really missing from the public statements :) I don't expect consumer-facing PR posts to go into nitty-gritty technical details, but it wasn't apparent that there was really anything more going on besides "nope, we're just going to rewrite it and move all the UI aro

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread Botond Ballo
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 1:10 PM wrote: > - I have a _bunch_ of addons installed in Fennec. uBlock Origin is by far > the most critical, but I have a number of other quality-of-life addons as > well. Based on the articles I've seen, Fenix does not yet have any extension > support, so I can't e

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread Kris Maglione
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:07:28AM -0700, mark.erik...@gmail.com wrote: - I am very happy with the current Fennec app and its UI, and don't understand why Mozilla feels a need to drop that product and create a new one from scratch. We're not creating a new one from scratch. Many of the compone

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread mark . erikson
Heh. No, I haven't tried Fenix, which I realize also makes it a bit harder to take my complaints seriously :) Having said that: - I am very happy with the current Fennec app and its UI, and don't understand why Mozilla feels a need to drop that product and create a new one from scratch. I kn

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread Bobby Holley
+1. This is a big milestone, and reflects countless hours of hard work building our next-generation mobile stack. Congrats to everyone involved! On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:59 PM Kris Maglione wrote: > > This sounds like a stellar plan. > > -Kris > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 02:55:56PM -0500, James

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-24 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:51 PM wrote: > As a happy Fennec end user with no direct involvement with Mozilla, I'm > decidedly unhappy about the direction Mozilla seems to be going here. I > don't expect this complaint to have any effect on plans, but FYI. > Have you actually tried Fenix (Firefo

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-23 Thread mark . erikson
As a happy Fennec end user with no direct involvement with Mozilla, I'm decidedly unhappy about the direction Mozilla seems to be going here. I don't expect this complaint to have any effect on plans, but FYI. On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3:59:09 PM UTC-4, Kris Maglione wrote: > This soun

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-19 Thread Kris Maglione
This sounds like a stellar plan. -Kris On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 02:55:56PM -0500, James Willcox wrote: Folks, As you may be aware, Fennec has been frozen on 68 ESR with the expectation that Fenix will become the new Firefox for Android in 2020. For reasons of hygiene and simplification, I propo

Intent to remove: Fennec

2019-09-19 Thread James Willcox
Folks, As you may be aware, Fennec has been frozen on 68 ESR with the expectation that Fenix will become the new Firefox for Android in 2020. For reasons of hygiene and simplification, I propose that we begin removing Fennec from mozilla-central as soon as feasible. There are a few known blockers