I think this is a great idea. The browser is turning more and more into
a OS, including webrtc, wifi routing and whatnot. There is a set of
users who don't want all that and simply just want a browser to read
their news website, nothing more. What browsers did in year 2000.
It would be great to another another browser that has a different
feature tradeoff / cutoff point.
Ben
Rabimba Karanjai wrote on 24.06.2015 22:03:
Hi All,
This is an introductory mail to announce our (nascent) initiative
towards a new project to make a slimmed down leaner and faster Firefox
for Android targeted towards bandwidth conscious markets. Initially
conceptualized in Mozilla Taskforce MeetUp India, the idea was to make
a feature streamlined version of Firefox for Android which is not only
slimmer in download size, but also considerably lighter on the device,
then it got extended with participation from Mozilla Bangladesh
Community too! The name is yet on the wind so call it Fennec Mini /
Firefox Mini / Chota Firefox whatever you want.
After a few initial meeting quickly a lot of ideas and features (or
the ones we want to strip and improve!) started piling up. And now we
think we can take it further and wanted to share this with the all of
us in the community for feedback and participation!
Most of the discussions till date can be found out here :
https://participation.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-mini?
As well as the videos of the 2nd and 3rd hangout :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0egUUvg7qA and
https://youtu.be/qlJ6jBLwehg
In short with very precise task points what we right now plan to do is
* Make/tweak the build system to automatically strip down features
we want to be removed from the build
* To do that we need
o A list of the features we have identified /reduces the /apt
size for the browser. Not just any feature, but only those
which significantly does this
o A way to extend granular support in the build system so that
we can implement a way so that we can flag a feature to be
removed (without breaking the build). In short a lot of
struggle with grade too.
o Extend the test suites to cover our scenarios
o Handle all the regression woes that will come with that (and
all the accompanying necessary evils…)
* Work with specific locale builds (so excluding not-needed language
packs) and also take inspiration from this kind of bug
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063868> (in short
try to see what happened here and make that happen for other
resources)
And a lot of other things which we should discuss a lot more into
future hangouts!
We would love to hear your ideas about this and to see you take part
in this!
Regards,
Rabimba Karanjai
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