Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why native Canonical browser and firefox?

2016-04-24 Thread Alan Bell
Well there were two available starting point, Firefox or Chromium. They picked Chromium. I am not sure how easy that decision was, but it doesn't strike me that Firefox/gecko would have been faster to wrap in a QML UI than Chromium/webkit On Sunday, April 24, 2016, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why native Canonical browser and firefox?

2016-04-24 Thread Filip Dorosz
Bear in mind that Firefox for Android is... already ported for Android. Native Firefox for Linux would require more power so doing own browser on chromium was more suitable. (I believe its some kind of based on Chromium) Z poważaniem, Filip Dorosz W dniu 24.04.2016 o 14:14, Chris Croome pisze

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why native Canonical browser and firefox?

2016-04-24 Thread Chris Croome
Hi On Sun 24-Apr-2016 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Filip Dorosz wrote: > > Firefox is quite good example, it is heavy and while > porting it would be possible I believe it would not > suite small screen, would drain battery quickly etc. I have two Nexus 4's, one running Cyanogenmod and one running Ubunt

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Why native Canonical browser and firefox?

2016-04-24 Thread Filip Dorosz
Hi. I believe some apps would be to resource hungry for limited abilities of mobile world. Firefox is quite good example, it is heavy and while porting it would be possible I believe it would not suite small screen, would drain battery quickly etc. Regards, Filip Dorosz. W dniu 24.04.2016 o

[Ubuntu-phone] Why native Canonical browser and firefox?

2016-04-24 Thread Krzysztof Tataradziński
Hello, For some time bothers me one topic. I'm not a programmer, so maybe answer to my question is obvious. In UT we have browser app created by Canonical team, yes? It's done almost from scratch and providing basic features. When UT was starting, why programmers team doesn't decide to, instead of