Dactyloidae/README.md
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Dactyloidae web browser

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Dactyloidae is a fork of Eclipse Hydra (fork of Basilisk made for Windows XP).

Some advantages over upstream, roytam1's Serpent and Hydra are:

  • More optimizations
  • Better interoperability with upstream. (using SQL storage instead of DBM)
  • More modern theme
  • Better e10s support
  • WebExtensions support comparable to Firefox ESR 78
  • Literally being the fastest XUL browser (33.7 in Speedometer 2.1 compared to 22.4 in Pale Moon 34.1 AVX2)

We reccomend using Palefill to potentially fix any browser issues: Download it here

Credits

If I've forgotten to put your name here, please let me know and I'll add it.

  • Feodor2 - Portable mode, theme fixes, and more from Mypal and Mypal68.
  • Librewolf Developers - Privacy tweaks from Librewolf. (Has not been implemented yet)
  • BlueySoft (goober) - Branding visuals, icons and fancy text.
  • White Star - Helping with porting platform to Darwin PowerPC.

Major core browser engine contributions:

  • Stossy11 - Helping to develop and fix the macOS build.
  • Eclipse Community - For creating Hydra and Lun3r, the bases of this fork.
  • Basilisk-Dev - For supporting and maintaining Basilisk, aswell as general advice for developing this browser.
  • roytam1 - Windows XP support code, e10s, WebExtensions, and more for UXP.
  • Moonchild Productions - For creating the Unified XUL Platform and Basilisk, the core of this project.
  • Mozilla Developers - Firefox ESR 52 browser base.