• tabular@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Even if Firefox were to win it’s still a bleak future because the ridiculously complexity and scope of browsers prevents new ones being made. Without the possibility of newcomers either the war never ends or there is one victor. We should start to abandon browsers in favor of apps that focus on each part of the browser (e.g. why does a browser need to render video to the screen when the user already has an app for that).

    “Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat.”- Kahless

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      6 months ago

      Fuck that. I’m not switching between apps for every god damn function my browser does. I intentionally decline to install apps when I can just use the browser.

    • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Until apps allow to install ubo I’ll stick to a browser instead of having less control than with manifest v3 and chrome/ium

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        6 months ago

        If the code of your app is like uBlock-Origin then you have the freedom to remove ads from your software. If an app dictates how you do your computing that’s a bigger issue than reckless feature creep leading to the end of browsers.