Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cpeterso 4032 days ago
Phoenix/Firefox was Mozilla's own lightweight alternative to SeaMonkey. Then Chrome was the lightweight alternative to a memory-hogging Firefox. Now Chrome is seen as sluggish and a memory hog. Where do we go next?
5 comments

I suppose, as far as the web platform is concerned, we aren't really going to replace HTML/CSS/JS so increasing the speed and memory management of javascript rendering is the clear way forward, e.g. with Servo https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/research/projects/
Servo, when it's done. And from there, who knows!
btw, browser.html is a Servo experiment with "future UI paradigms":

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html/

It says right on the page that it doesn't use Servo.
I would like to switch to servo-shell sooner than later. Though there is no Win32/64 build of Servo.

See Servo github issue "Get Servo working on Windows": https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/1908

Microsoft Edge?
There are a lot of alternative browsers, though almost all of them use Blink.
...back to Seamonkey? :D