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## Standalone route
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Some small browsers exist that use webkit/webengine for the heavy lifting. Two notable examples even have vim-like interfaces: qutebrowser and jumanji.
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Extending them *might* be easy, depending on the quality of the existing code base. We also need to evaluate these projects for maintainability: they're obviously going to have much less development power.
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If it's comparable to this project done in webextensions, then we might want to just build our own/fork/contribute.
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But what do we lose? What do the non-gecko bits of firefox do? What's left in the chrome repo if you remove webengine? I don't really know.
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* Kerning/font presentation code? (text in qutebrowser looks bad on Windows, don't know why)
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* Cross-platform OS shit
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* Firefox sync is neat and would be missed.
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* safebrowsing?
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* how much security stuff in engine/vs browser?
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* webm, webgl and similar? Presumably handled either by the engine or externally, but maybe picking and maintaining link to external thing is expensive.
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* flash handling?
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* What UI stuff are we not replacing?
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* developer tools (neat, but no reason for us to re-implement).
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We also lose access to the existing addon/extension repos. Maybe if we implemented webextension support in our own browser we'd get them back? Don't know how difficult that is.
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### A life without the addon store:
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What addons do I use and would I miss them?
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Should be part of the browser anyway:
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* stylish --> :style, or maybe .vimperator/styles/ (with magic comments?)
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* greasemonkey --> builtin/extensions/autocmds
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* site blocker --> /etc/hosts
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Maybe not:
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* element hiding rules (ublock) not supported
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* tree tabs --> better :buffer?
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* lazarus form recovery is brilliant...
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* noscript is shit anyway
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* hide fedora is neat, but maybe just an element hiding list? Maybe it does have to parse differently.
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* example of neat addon that a smaller browser wouldn't have available, anyway.
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* ref control is neat, but the UI is pants. Would be easy to build an ex-mode interface.
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* pwgen is trivial
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* https everywhere --> builtin?
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