Discussion of third-party/unofficial Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey builds.
Gingerbread Man

Posts: 7743Joined: January 30th, 2007, 10:55 am
Posted November 20th, 2017, 4:04 am
http://www.basilisk-browser.orgMain features:- Full support for JavaScript's ECMAscript 6 standard for modern web browsing.
- Support for all NPAPI plugins (Unity, Silverlight, Flash, Java, authentication plugins, etc.).
- Support for XUL/Overlay Mozilla-style extensions.
- Experimental support for WebExtensions (in gecko-target mode). Please note that some Mozilla-specific WebExtension APIs are not yet available.
- Support for ALSA on Linux.
- Support for WebAssembly (WASM).
- Support for advanced Graphite font shaping features.
- Support for modern web cryptography: up to TLS 1.3, modern ciphers, HSTS, etc.
Important differences with Mozilla Firefox:- Uses Goanna as a layout and rendering engine. Goanna behaves slightly differently than Gecko in certain respects and may result in different display of web pages. e.g.: Goanna renders gradients in a more accurate color space (non-premultiplied).
- Builds on UXP, our XUL platform in development. As such XUL is alive and well in this browser and will not be deprecated.
- Has some long-standing known issues with the Mozilla code-base fixed (e.g. CVE-2009-1232).
- Does not use Rust or the Photon user interface. You can expect a familiar interface as-carried by Firefox between v29 and v56.
- Does not use Electrolysis (e10s, multi-process browsing).
- Does not require walled-garden extension signing.
Reflective

Posts: 2283Joined: February 15th, 2007, 11:13 am
Posted November 20th, 2017, 6:25 am
I installed it this morning and then installed CTR after which I imported a backup of my CTR settings created in FF ESR52.5. The location bar no longer works with CTR installed. No URLs can be loaded and about:config cannot be accessed. I posted the issue on Github afterwards, but nobody has responded so far: https://github.com/MoonchildProductions ... issues/193
Reflective

Posts: 2283Joined: February 15th, 2007, 11:13 am
Posted November 21st, 2017, 12:35 pm
Damn! I just discovered what for me is a big No-No. Basilisk changes the context menu whereby users are forced to use DuckDuckGo to search with: I have a lot of custom search engines I use for translation work and don't need to use a search engine to find them. In the above image I intended to go directly to the Mozilla extensions site to take a look at that particular extension. Pity.Stupid mistake here on my part. I forgot to install an extension called Context Search which provides the ability to search with other engines besides the one set at default.
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isaacschemm
Posts: 268Joined: January 20th, 2015, 12:29 pm
Posted November 21st, 2017, 3:22 pm
Reflective wrote:Damn! I just discovered what for me is a big No-No. Basilisk changes the context menu whereby users are forced to use DuckDuckGo to search with: http://imgbox.com/g7ddCZeFI have a lot of custom search engines I use for translation work and don't need to use a search engine to find them. In the above image I intended to go directly to the Mozilla extensions site to take a look at that particular extension. Pity.
I think that's just because DuckDuckGo is the default search engine. I have it set as default in Firefox 58 and I see the same context menu as you.
Reflective

Posts: 2283Joined: February 15th, 2007, 11:13 am
Posted November 22nd, 2017, 3:24 am
isaacschemm wrote:I think that's just because DuckDuckGo is the default search engine. I have it set as default in Firefox 58 and I see the same context menu as you.
Yes, you're right. I forgot to install an extension called Context Search which allows searching with more than one search engine.
rodndtube
Posts: 6Joined: November 25th, 2009, 6:28 pm
Posted December 3rd, 2017, 7:03 am
There is another work around for adding search engines. Go to the Pale Moon site from Basilisk and select your engine of choice from the long list: https://addons.palemoon.org/search-plugins/
JodyThornton

Posts: 129Joined: August 12th, 2004, 5:59 pmLocation: Richmond Hill, Ontario (Canada)
Posted February 3rd, 2018, 1:34 pm
Seems Basilisk is running into a bit of difficulty. They are going to need to rebase, it appears. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18211If it were my gamble, I'd go with Waterfox. Personally, I like Quantum, so I've made my choice.
Cheers, Jody Thornton (Richmond Hill, Ontario)
Brummelchen
Posts: 3984Joined: March 19th, 2005, 10:51 am
Posted February 4th, 2018, 4:10 am
as expected they ran into trouble.
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