Hi, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:27:00PM -0800, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > > Hi, I'm a very happy user of Conkeror for some 6 months or so, having got > > fed up of reverting from w3m to Firefox for sites that use Javascript. I > > hope no one takes it the wrong way if I ask what the feelings are on this > > list about its future? How many developers are there and how quickly are > > new features added? What is the best guess for how many users there > > are?
There are statistics for at least the Debian package of conkeror and the numbers are rising there in the average: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=conkeror > I can provide some assurance that Conkeror isn't going to stagnate > completely anytime soon, Ohloh sees the development quite positive: * Increasing year-over-year development activity * Large, active development team * Established codebase (From https://www.ohloh.net/p/5294) > as I (and I believe the other developers as well) depend on it for > our web browsing needs and don't see there being any comparable > alternative browser coming out. There is the vimperator plugin for FF which is comparable with the old conkeror while it was just a FF plugin. It's though of course using vi keybindings instead of emacs keybindings and therefore the keybindings are not "comparable". ;-) > (If Google Chromium is finally released for Linux and proves to be > amenable for implementing a Conkeror-like browser on top of it, then > I (and perhaps some other developers) might indeed be tempted to try > to rewrite Conkeror for it, I would be really happy if this _won't_ happen. I don't want to put any effort in a browser which invades privacy so much. > Development of Conkeror is somewhat slower now than it has been at > various points in the past, though there are a good number of > reasonably active developers (about 4-5), and the slowdown is in, > part, I think, because many important features have already been > implemented. IMHO it's stable and usable, but the lack of some not so important but though everywhere else available features like e.g. a bookmark and cookies manager surely hinders its spreading. > It is hard to estimate the number of users, since we only really know > about those that speak up on the mailing list or on the IRC channel. See above for the Debian popularity contest stats. BTW, I think it would be helpful to send a user agent string which includes the name "Conkeror" somewhere instead of only "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122010" so that Conkeror gets noticed in site access statistics. Looked into the code, but not sure where to do this. Probably in modules/utils.js around line 580. zzo38 suggested on IRC something like session_pref("general.useragent.extra.conkeror", "Conkeror/"+conkeror_version); Regards, Axel -- Axel Beckert - [email protected], [email protected] - http://noone.org/abe/ _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
