Notice!

The UXP repo for Dactyloidae is no longer regularly maintained. We will only provide important changes for the forseeable future.

If you want a smooth transition, use Dactyloidae 15.0 and above. You're still getting Windows 2000 support, and all the perks of UXP, just in a newer and faster browser core.

If you want to keep using a UXP browser, use Basilisk.

On XP and want to keep using UXP? Consider roytam1's builds.

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Dactyloidae is a heavily modified fork of Eclipse Hydra (fork of roytam1's Serpent, which is a fork of Basilisk, which is a fork of Firefox).

Some advantages over upstream, roytam1's Serpent, Eclipse Hydra and Firefox are:

• More optimizations (SSE2, with additional boosts for future CPUs coming soon)
• Better interoperability with upstream (using SQL storage instead of DBM)
• More modern theme
• Better e10s support
• Support for extensions in the Chrome and Edge Web Store (soon)
• Support for extensions released for both Pale Moon, Basilisk and Firefox
• WebExtensions support comparable to Firefox ESR 78
• Literally being the fastest XUL browser (53.7 in Speedometer 2.1 compared to 22.4 in Pale Moon 34.2 AVX2)
• Re-add support for iOS, Android, Windows 2000 and later, NetBSD (soon OpenBSD)

Interested in running Dactyloidae in Win9x?

Get DactJump alongside Dactyloidae if you want to use it on 9x.

Get it here.

Credits

If I've forgotten to put your name here, please let me know and I'll add it.

• Feodor2 - Portable mode, theme fixes, and more from Mypal and Mypal68.
• Librewolf Developers - Privacy tweaks from Librewolf. (Has not been implemented yet)
• BlueySoft (goober) - Branding visuals, icons and fancy text.
• White Star - Helping with porting platform to Darwin PowerPC.

Major core browser engine contributions:

• Stossy11 - Helping to develop and fix the macOS build.
• Eclipse Community - For creating Hydra and Lun3r, the bases of this fork.
• EAZYBLACK - VP9 hardware acceleration for WinVista+, Win2000 support code.
• Loongson Hobbists' community - Providing a LoongArch VM and general assistance in porting to LoongArch64
• Basilisk-Dev - For supporting and maintaining Basilisk, aswell as general advice for developing this browser. A lot of recent web compatibility stuff is made by him too.
• roytam1 - Windows XP support code, e10s, WebExtensions, and more for UXP.
• Moonchild Productions - For creating the Unified XUL Platform and Basilisk, the core of this project.
• Mozilla Developers - Firefox ESR 52 and ESR 60 browser base.