Ray_Net wrote:
>
>Ray. now that you can get to the required site (skynet!! Are you
>working on Terminator or something?? ;-P ) , can you tell the Site
>Manager, or whomever, to start sniffing for Gecko, rather than for
>Firefox, and direct them to ..
>
>http://geckoisgecko.org/
>
>Hmmm, ten different browsers!!
>
I let you do this action - I was just afraid by the page
http://geckoisgecko.org/ showing exotic browsers - too many, very
strange and not proposing the other showed on this page
http://browsehappy.com/?locale=fr
This one is good stuff, but it's showing its age. Of what's there,
there's a lot of options listed that are EOL and special case -- far
enough out of the mainstream that very few have even heard of them, much
less considered using. Specifically
* Kazehakase: linux-only, emphasis on Japanese content
* Camino: EOL, developers focusing on Firefox
* Galeon: linux-only (GNOME Desktop), mostly EOL
* Mozilla suite: EOL, succeeded by Seamonkey
* Prism: EOL
* Fennec: EOL, developers focusing on Firefox for Android
* Flock: apparently EOL.
Thus, of the 10 listed, only Seamonkey, Firefox and K-Meleon are active
projects, and K-Meleon something of a cult project.
It's also worth noting that there's no mention of the most widely used
Gecko forks, particularly Pale Moon, Waterfox, or that Lunascape
includes Gecko support. Plus forks such as IceWeasel.
For Evangelism purposes, I think the current content of geckoisgecko is
old enough to be counter-productive, in that if a web page maintainer
actually sees this one, it's more likely to communicate that
implementations of Gecko beyond Firefox are irrelevant: either projects
that are now EOL, or where the other options are so obscure that they're
not worth even noting names, much less accounting for.
Thus, naming some or all the browsers that use Gecko detracts from the
core point: any browser that uses Gecko will work fine on a site that
correctly implements Gecko, and it doesn't matter which implementation
of Gecko it is. And the difference between Firefox, Seamonkey, PaleMoon,
or whatever else is essentially irrelevant.
Several years ago, I found that most of the time, I could get around
sites that demand Firefox as the only acceptable implementation of Gecko
by doing browser spoofing, and it being rare that I couldn't get around
problems that way. Since the time that Seamonkey started advertising
Firefox in its ID, I can't remember a time I've seen a site balk at that.
Personally, I've found that I get what I need with PrefsBar, and I've
found it also useful being able to spoof the platform, when I
occasionally need to download Mac software on a Windows machine, and
where a site's browser-sniffing is looking for a platform ID. The only
minor complaint I have about PrefsBar is that the default IDs offered
are now quite old, and that I occasionally have to go in and adjust
settings, so that they match more current versions.
Smith
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