[Dev] Forward: Re: [RFC] Deprecate Parabola Iceweasel in favor of Triquel Abrowser

Andreas Grapentin andreas at grapentin.org
Tue Apr 25 17:11:00 GMT 2017


I started working about that - I'm not a fan of just copying the
pkgbuild, but it looks (almost) straightforwand to integrate the changes
to the new version.

I'll try and get an updated pkgbuild ready today.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:04:47AM -0300, Megver83 wrote:
> I can confirm this, at least point nº1, as emulatorman still keeps it
> in AUR, we just have to move it to abslibre.git and compile.
> 
> El 24/04/17 a las 23:12, eliotime3000 escribió:
> > OK. I'm using ABrowser on Trisquel, and let me tell you some stuff 
> > related to this Firefox fork:
> > 
> > 1.- Abrowser does have a broken system with Firefox Sync service.
> > For those that want to migrate from Firefox to Iceweasel, this
> > issue is annoying.
> > 
> > 2.- Abrowser is having some performance issues in the multiprocess 
> > (a.k.a. "Electrolysis"). By the way, the most logical way to use
> > an alternative to Firefox is still fork the Debian edition of
> > Firefox into Iceweasel, due to  the Debian edition of Firefox
> > optimizes many of the source code for porting into plattaforms that
> > are not exclusively x86 (i686 and x86_64).
> > 
> > 3.- Abrowser actually is updated into the 52.0.2 version. However,
> > the Parabola version of Iceweasel is based on the Debian version of
> > Firefox release, which is in the unstable branch of Debian that
> > keeps up-to-date the Firefox version.
> 
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