On 3/19/19 4:28 PM, Ant wrote:
On 3/19/2019 12:41 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
> No problems. I know the pain. It will take a while (years?) to get
SeaMonkey
> onto the newer Gecko engines like Quantum to fix these issues. :(
There is no new Gecko engine. 56 is pretty close to 57 and not that
much different from 60. Quantum is more of a marketing gag.
Oh. I thought that was the new Gecko engine, but v52 to v56 is a big
change. SM needs that badly. :(
There are always some optimizations being made which reduce memory
usuage. Much was because of ripped out functionality.
The biggest changes between 56 and 60 are the new style system named
stylo. Only big component used and written in rust (which I don't care
for because seems to be just another overhyped programming language).
Also e10s is always on in Fx thanks to no more classic extensions so
you will see a more responsive browser with s*cky websites like
facebook. Memory comsumption here is up because of multiple processes.
webrender might become a thing in 68 but with so many half baked >
graphics drivers around we will see how it works on older PCs.
That could be a problem for me since others and I use our decade old
computers (Windows 7, Mac OS X, and Debian oldstable/Jessie v8)! :(
In reality the browsing component of 2.57 already on the "new" shiny
quantum does not feel much different form the patched up unofficial
2.53. The only big difference here is missing e10s and this does not
do anything to reduce menory.
Dang it. :(
Running 60 at work now and then and I still prefer SeaMonkey even with
its limitations :)
Ditto. I always loved the suite products, since Netscape days, even
though people think I am crazy!
There are a lot of good people still working on Gecko and doing good
things but Fx will never again be my browser of choice. Porting
SeaMonkey to the latest source would mean ripping out more things like
themes and bookmark enhancements and and. The resulting product would
probably be nothing I care about so I am just looking forward to get
2.57 done and see what happens then.
Same here even though I do have and use it just in case since MS and
many web sites don't support its IE11. I hate Google Chrome! :(
Interested in the new Firefox rendering engine?
<https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/webrender-newsletter-42/>
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