Is it an abandonned Project ?

[gomster]

hi - I don't know if I'm the only one wondering what's happening with the new version of Mercury Browser?

I can well understand that this project has been abandoned or that the dev .... has run out of time,

so 👍🏼 is a new version in the way?

thx

[Beats24-7]

Looks like he doesn't have the time to maintain this project anymore, unfortunately. The Mercury browser is outdated now and it's no longer possible to add new add-ons or themes.

[gomster]

> Looks like he doesn't have the time to maintain this project anymore, unfortunately. The Mercury browser is outdated now and it's no longer possible to add new add-ons or themes.

ok no problem, it was to get news! - too bad that browser was really powerful... thx for the reply

[jsvry]

hi - I don't know if I'm the only one wondering what's happening with the new version of Mercury Browser?

I can well understand that this project has been abandoned or that the dev .... has run out of time,

so 👍🏼 is a new version in the way?

thx

the last commit to the repo was ~3 months ago, and @Alex313031 is very much active on GitHub -- what gives you the impression the project has been abandoned? I found it a few weeks ago and have it set up and running without issue.

Looks like he doesn't have the time to maintain this project anymore, unfortunately. The Mercury browser is outdated now and it's no longer possible to add new add-ons or themes.

Can you clarify what you mean? Mercury gave me no issues syncing addons/themes from an existing Firefox install, and adding new extensions from the Mozilla store wasn't an issue either.

[Beats24-7]

Can you clarify what you mean? Mercury gave me no issues syncing addons/themes from an existing Firefox install, and adding new extensions from the Mozilla store wasn't an issue either.

If I open the Firefox add-ons or themes page I see this:

I haven't tested syncing with another Firefox.

Edit: Wait, got it fixed... it's working again :)

[unixtech]

@Alex313031 should clarify the situation.

[mariusz1979-1]

Any news?

[BrokenBrainiac]

I too am hoping for an update. We don't need new builds every month, only when there are significant improvements to the base Firefox, or when updates are needed for plugin support. For instance, H.265 support was added in Firefox ~ version 133 - Tiktok sends you video streams in H.264 in Mercury, but Yt-dlp can fetch H.265 aka HEVC encodes (around 40% smaller and slightly better visual quality).

At this stage I am not sure whether to jump ship to vanilla Firefox, or is there is another improved Firefox variant (in the old days I used Waterfox and Pale Moon, but plugin support was an issue - I wanted support for the older style Firefox plugins + up-to-date support for newer Firefox plugins, but nothing fulfilled those requirements, so I moved on to Mercury).

[ravarage]

I too am hoping for an update. We don't need new builds every month, only when there are significant improvements to the base Firefox, or when updates are needed for plugin support. For instance, H.265 support was added in Firefox ~ version 133 - Tiktok sends you video streams in H.264 in Mercury, but Yt-dlp can fetch H.265 aka HEVC encodes (around 40% smaller and slightly better visual quality).

At this stage I am not sure whether to jump ship to vanilla Firefox, or is there is another improved Firefox variant (in the old days I used Waterfox and Pale Moon, but plugin support was an issue - I wanted support for the older style Firefox plugins + up-to-date support for newer Firefox plugins, but nothing fulfilled those requirements, so I moved on to Mercury).

just my 2 cent when there are cve with 9.8 rating it should get priority update, it being while since they remove mercury from arch repo and replace it with firefox to protect are user from cve

just use floorp with userjs perfomance tweeks

[UaE5LeN23DMjGfr]

He'll figure out soon that only the likes of AVX2 will be worth it.

CVE prioritization for this kind of app is moot

[FooqX]

Try hellfire, it's continuing mercury's legacy pretty much

[terax6669]

HellFire's repo has been only up for a year. IDK if I trust that and migrating between browsers often seems like a pain.
In the meantime I've watched the repo to see if Alex is gonna make a new release.

[totherpage955]

HellFire's repo has been only up for a year. IDK if I trust that and migrating between browsers often seems like a pain. In the meantime I've watched the repo to see if Alex is gonna make a new release.

Alex didn't seem very interested when i talked with him but i hope he updates it. i had issues with the extensions for hellfire so i'm using midori in the interim but i'd still rather use mercury especially with time sensitive stuff because it's the fastest browser i've used. honestly if i knew how i'd work on it myself. the other nice thing is that mercury works even for older operating systems

[ioc2e3]

Try hellfire, it's continuing mercury's legacy pretty much

However , that ...

Here ( https://github.com/CYFARE/HellFire ) ...

There is no longer version for Windows ...

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