Borealis - The Binary Outcast Navigator =============================================================================== Borealis is a web browsing application forked from Mozilla community code that is built using the Unified XUL Platform (UXP). * https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/uxp Its user interface is similar to the SeaMonkey's Navigator/Browser component which was dirived from the Mozilla Application Suite developed largely by Netscape for Netscape Communicator 6/7. This does NOT include the MailNews, Composer, or any other suite bundled components. Goals =============================================================================== * Personal side-project to explore the inner workings of a more classical mozilla-based application. * Provide a very traditional but powerful web browser What features will be included in the Navigator =============================================================================== * The Navigator/Browser including Tabbed Browsing * Comprehensive control of Preferences * Customizable Toolbars * XUL Overlay and Bootstrap (Restartless) Extension Support * Complete Themeing Support * Open Search Engine Providers * Windows and Linux support * TBD What will *NOT* be included in the Navigator =============================================================================== * Digital Rights Management (DRM) such as Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) - Netflix and any other sites that utilize such technology will not function * WebRTC (Web Real Time Communications) - Skype, Discord, Hangouts, and the like will not function properly * WebExtensions aka Google Chrome Content and Service Extensions * Jetpack (Add-ons SDK) Extensions * Web Developer tools beyond an Error Console and perhaps DOM Inspector * Personas/Lightweight Themes/Toolbar Backgrounds * Language Packs * Support for the Macintosh, any flavor of BSD, ReactOS * TBD