Portable Freeware Submission • Re: Basilisk web browser

Basilisk is no longer developed by the Pale Moon team. It is now developed by a team of developers independent from the Pale Moon project. [...] Basilisk is intended to be a potential replacement for pre-Servo versions of Firefox. It can also be considered a reference implementation for building a browser on top of the UXP platform. Basilisk is considered to be a stable piece of software at this time. This means that it does not change for the sake of change. We only make changes if we actually feel they are beneficial for users, unlike Mozilla who treats Firefox's interface as if it is a fashion show with new designs every week.

[Basilisk] 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.

IMPORTANT! The vendor name for Basilisk has changed. If you recently updated you may notice that none of your bookmarks or extensions transferred. See the instructions below.

On Windows: Copy '%appdata%\Moonchild Productions\Basilisk' to '%appdata%\Basilisk-Dev\Basilisk'

Statistics: Posted by Midas — Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:15 am