Future of split-browser (in general and in Chrome-based browsers)

  1. I’d dare to say that Brave browser established itself in Qubes community for as many as obvious reasons

https://forum.qubes-os.org/search?q=brave%20browser

  1. @rustybird had split-browser for Chrome-based browser on his to-do list
  1. But, as he said here

"WebExtension APIs didn't seem to support Punycode"

  1. But, it looks like punycode is deprecated since v7.0.0, and "Users currently depending on the punycode module should switch to using the userland-provided Punycode.js"

https://nodejs.org/api/punycode.html

How does this affect split-browser in general and are we going to see a version for Chrome-based browsers anytime, since the community that uses it heavily grows and this directly affects its privacy and anonymity, at least? I guess, there are people that use Brave and would give up their privacy/anonymity over convenience of storing bookmarks in the browser itself, rather then copy/paste it from some offline local source.

The developer responded here, but that’s all I’ve seen since.

Build for f40 failed most probably for the reasons I stated above?

If so, the subject of the topic is still valid.

No, that’s not specific to Split Browser. The whole fc40 contrib repo still appears to be broken. Maybe it will be fixed for fc41.

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