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rllola / ZeronetBrowser

An attempt to create a dedicated browser for ZeroNet using PyQt5
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Make extension instead of browser #87

Closed filips123 closed 5 years ago

filips123 commented 5 years ago

What?

I recommend that you make browser (at least for Firefox and Chrome) extension instead of the browser.

Why?

How?

You should make browser extension that would:

Almost all of that things are possible with extension, only the last would be hard (but it is probably not so important).

There is already some project with extension:

filips123 commented 5 years ago

@rllola Why did you close this issue?

rllola commented 5 years ago

Hi @filips123,

Yes, sorry. The purpose of this project is to have a different browser for ZeroNet protocol for users to be more aware of what is being used. It means that what is happening in ZeroNet browser is part of ZeroNet. I agree not everyone might want 2 browsers and I have been looking into the extension. I would be happy to contribute to it.

I also think an application instead of an extension could offer more flexibility and shipping the browser with ZeroNet is the main idea behind this project.

I have close this issue because you are expressing an opinion and therefore it is not a bug/enhancement for this project. Feel free to contact me if you want to talk more about this.

filips123 commented 5 years ago

Ok, I agree with that.

I also have one other suggestion. Because maintaining browser would probably be hard and current browser misses a lot of features, you could maybe make a custom build of some browser (probably Firefox because it is more privacy oriented) and bundle ZeroNet and extension (for managing like in my first post) into it. I don't know how exactly could this be done but you might consider this in the future.

rllola commented 5 years ago

Yeah I have been looking into that too. I wanted to do something like Tor browser did but it was easier for me to start from scratch. It is actually quite easy to do a browser in python using pyqt5 so I went with it. Also everything is in python than in firefox source code it seems to use rust, c++, some python script... I cant figure out what does what. Maybe if I had more experience in browser development but I am a total noob.

Also keep in mind this is a proof of concept and it is a good exercise. People can use it but I encourage people to try and contribute as it is fun but the browser comes with no warranty.

filips123 commented 5 years ago

You could maybe do this in the future.

I also don't know how to integrate other programs into Firefox. But maybe there is some easy way to do this.

filips123 commented 5 years ago

@rllola I created Bugzilla suggestion for support for creating custom Firefox bundles. I hope there will soon be some easy way to do this.