Re: What is still to hope

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> Trel wrote:
>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>> Marcelo wrote:
>>>> Interviewed by CNN on 31/7/2009 23:10, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
>>>> told the world:
>>>>
>>>>> there's supposed to be an experimental multizilla for SM2 somewhere
>>>>> on their site.  Look for suiterunner. Anyways, its a shame that multi
>>>>> has come to an end. One of the best extensions out there.
>>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure, in another thread Michael V. van Rantwijk implied that
>>>> he's too busy at present but he intends to go back to it eventually.
>>> that was true, but that thread was a long time ago, and nobody has heard
>>> a word from him.
>>>
>>> Another potential Multi dev has decided not to pursue multi as its far
>>> too big and would take up far too much of his time.  Plus he also said
>>> HJ might be coming out with his own browser.
>>>
>>>> But, right now... the Suiterunner build I found at the site refused to
>>>> install in Seamonkey 2.0 beta 1. Too bad, some reviews I saw suggested
>>>> that even unpolished, the beta is already better than 1.1
>>> thats what I heard too.  Can you not bump up the max version?
>>>
>>>> ... but without
>>>> Multizilla, I'm not eager to move.
>>> I'm already thinking that way, too.
>>>
>>>> Marcelo
>>>
>> Well , if no update comes out for Multi when SM 2 is out, what are the
>> chances of someone forking it and continuing it?
>> (Or even suggesting this in say the SM newsgroups?)
> 
> its already been discussed there and in mozillazine, and nobody came
> forward.  There was one, Philip Chee, who was going to check into it,
> but gave up on it.  It was far too big. He said it was almost like
> trying to dig into a new browser.
> 
Damn, I really don't want to see this die :(
It was one of my main reasons for sticking with SeaMonkey