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===Context=== | |||
Fennec is a relatively large browser in the South Asian market: | |||
Browser and their sizes on playstore: | |||
# Opera - 20MB (3 MB - Mini) | |||
# UC - 15 MB (0.9 MB - Mini) | |||
# Firefox - 33 MB (biggest) | |||
# Chrome - 30 MB | |||
While others offer data compression through their proxy servers and make their browser more adjusted to data sensitive users, Fennec does not have that option. | |||
The aim of this project is to explore options to prototype a product that is smaller in size and helps data sensitive users manage better their data. | |||
The Fennec team had explored this possibility and they have put together a list of bugs that aim towards this goal: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fatfennec | |||
The idea is not to fork Fennec but to build with the existing modules. | |||
===Ideas=== | |||
These are just raw uncategorized, unexplored and unprioritized ideas for chota fennec: | |||
====Server side compression==== | |||
*Server side compression (maybe the only open source server side comp. project ) | |||
**Need to be taken into consideration: | |||
***The privacy of data is going to matter when we talk about the browser-side-compression | |||
***Browser-side-compression demands high-throughput/efficiency data-center to serve content | |||
***Data retention policy? | |||
***Costs | |||
***legal implications | |||
====Network==== | |||
*Slow network detector | |||
*Some (magical) network optimization | |||
====Display / Rendering==== | |||
*Offer to render page in text only (something like reading mode) | |||
*Strip ads/flash/fonts/any media | |||
**click to play feature? | |||
*Avoid the loading loading | |||
====Downloads==== | |||
*Better download manager | |||
*We Indians "download" a lot of .... media (:P) | |||
*Resumable downloads | |||
====Strip down features, languages==== | |||
*scale down the features with a Mini version | |||
*strip out other languages | |||
**Strip out Non-Indian Locales , But Keep Indian ones. Also strip out locales without Android device font support. | |||
**Make sure , we can provide features such as @font-face support in optional features, with disable by default . Else it may break UI/UX of Indian language websites and it may backfire | |||
come up with a realistic set of functionality to create a really really small .apk size | |||
*There can be a lot of optimizations made, based on the target demographics - as prefs | |||
*It may be helpful to have the pref-bundles (like language packs) to serve certain regions | |||
===Help wanted=== | |||
The chota fennec team started as a team of mainly engineers, but there is need for help in these areas: | |||
*Product management / coordination | |||
*QA | |||
*Release management | |||
*Coding | |||