I want to introduce you to a project I've been working on The Danknet Explorer. It is an internet nostalgia browser (a fork of the Palemoon browser to be specific) that is dedicated to looking like IE6/IE7. Currently, it's just UI changes, which I obviously could have done as themes submitted to Palemoon but I plan to make larger changes to functionality to a certain goal that makes it substantially unique, features that I will mention at a later date. Since it's built from the Palemoon browser it runs flash out of box (with the usual flash bugs of course)
So far I've tested it only for Windows 11 (presumably windows 10), but I hope to have this project running on Mac, Linux and older versions of Windows. Ideally, this would run as far back as Windows XP, but that's likely not possible. The project is and will forever be open source. The repository is currently private while I fix the last few UI bugs but I'm hoping to get it up by January. The repo will be posted on my GitHub. If anyone with some CSS experience wanted to write new themes for it, perhaps to make it look like even older IE versions that would be awesome, or if you wanted to do some work porting and building the Mac/Linux/Older Win versions to make the UI consistent that would also be great!
Progress will be really slow by myself because I'm a master's student and don't have a ton of free time. But I've started a devlog on my personal tumblr, was keeping one on my gaiaonline journal for a bit if you want to go back and read those and I've made a discord for it if anyone wants to get involved, get updates, or suggest changes/features :)
@mostnormalelf: #i do wonder how secure it is though
It's using the palemoon browser code base, and all of the new code will be worked around palemoon updates so that it's always almost as secure as palemoon. The point of doing it this way is because palemoon has a lot larger of a dedicated team (more than one person :P).
