General Discussion • Re: Nordstjernen web browser

Good luck with your project. I'm sure some people in our community will be happy to occasionally look at it, but without any sort of JIT compiler, your efforts will likely be wasted because heavy JavaScript use is simply a fact we all have to live with for at least some time to come. Without a just-in-time compiler for JS, I don't think this application has reasonable chances of being accepted as a usable alternative. But, you're free to try and make it more usable regardless. It's an interesting experiment if nothing else!

Also, I did notice multiple tabs are an option, despite you advertising it being single-document-per-window. Change of heart there?

By the way, if you're that worried about compiled scripting inside a browser, you can enjoy the same "hardened security" in Pale Moon by setting the following preferences:

1. Set javascript.options.ion to false
2. Set javascript.options.baselinejit to false
3. Set javascript.options.wasm to false
4. Set javascript.options.asmjs to false

Then restart the browser and enjoy a completely JIT-less JS engine. No Nordstjernen/Nordstrand/Nordstjerna needed. You can do that entirely on UXP, without looking for a new "raison d'être" (that means "reason for existing" for those not fluent enough in French).

Other than that, I side with Athenian in terms of how this discussion has quickly derailed (and you're just repeating the same now...). I welcome alternative browsers but be realistic about what you're doing and who you're talking to, please.