Re: [OT] Re: capture with iceweasel/firefox -- nothing works

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@iname.com>]

This is moving OT, but bear with me briefly please if you all would, I
do (kind of) get back to the OP's concerns at the end.

On 4 June 2016 at 21:53, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:
>
> I think it's
> important to note (for anyone thinking of investing time in setting it
> up) that conkeror's future is uncertain given Mozilla's planned
> deprecation of XUL, its abandonment of xulrunner, and its lack of
> official support for using Firefox's browser engine to run third party
> apps.

Sad but true. However, we can at least be sure that nobody can take
away the existing Firefox/Xulrunner code base. That's the glory of
freedom-respecting software. Forking it is easy. Maintaining it and
keeping feature-parity is another matter, of course.

> This is what a Mozilla developer said in response to a broken -app
> flag (which conkeror requires to run) in FF 48 nightly: "This bug isn't
> high on the official Mozilla priority list. We don't use -app or have
> any testing for it, so it's likely to break."[fn:1]

That made my heart stop. Thankfully, it seems they have found the bug,
and more importantly, they seem to have willingly put in the required
effort. Happily, they had the original author of the problematic code
on hand. The (very simple) fix is in review. Apparently the defect was
always there (for at least 5 years), but by luck never bit anyone
before.

> [fn:1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1271574

Could lispkit be the next best thing? This might meet the OP's
no-JavaScript requirement at least -- and even better, it's Lisp too
-- but it's WebKit-based (Safari's innards, rather than Firefox's) and
also keyboard-oriented. The Lisp is Common Lisp, not Emacs Lisp, which
is a Good Thing to my way of thinking but does mean there are a few
gotchas to watch out for coming from an Elisp background.

https://github.com/AeroNotix/lispkit

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