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   stux⚡ (stux@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 21:58:51 JST stux⚡

   #FireFox we need to talk..

   WTF is dis?!

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 21:58:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     @stux It’s called their business model.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:23:38 JST 翠星石

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     • Probably depressed
     @jrod3737 @stux That browser appears to just be chromium on windows and safari webkit on ios - sure they wrote a custom GUI, but what actually does the rendering is existing web engines.
     
     For me it's Emacs Web Wowser, or lynx, or w3m or netsurf or wget.
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     Probably depressed (jrod3737@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:23:39 JST Probably depressed

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     @stux
     I would totally use a browser you made from scratch. Right now the only option on Windows and iOS is DuckDuckGo. They’re still using the OS native rendering engine but everything else is from the ground up.

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     stux⚡ (stux@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:23:40 JST stux⚡

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     So it seems that #Firefox went ahead and just re-enabled these terrible settings

     That's 1 strike for the fox.. One more and it's out

     Maybe i should build my own browser and not made of Chromium crap (no offense)

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:28:29 JST 翠星石

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     • Zergling_man
     @Zergling_man @jrod3737 @stux You run; `wget -qO- <page>` and then the read the HTML that's dumped to stdout, or you can even pipe it to GNU less; `wget -qO- <page> | less`
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:28:30 JST Zergling_man

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     • Probably depressed
     @Suiseiseki @stux @jrod3737 wget can't parse html as far as I know, so I would argue it's not a web *browser*, just a web client.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:35:10 JST 翠星石

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     • Zergling_man
     @Zergling_man The --recursive flag does the browsing part for you automatically.
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 22:35:12 JST Zergling_man

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     • Probably depressed
     @Suiseiseki @stux @jrod3737 Yeah you can, and with basically all of the parts of the web that matter, that's fine, but it is still not a web browser.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 00:27:38 JST SuperDicq

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     @stux@mstdn.social One of the reasons why you need to be using a fork like Librewolf

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     Taylan (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 05:21:48 JST Taylan

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     @sj_zero @stux
     
     > But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...
     
     But if Mozilla spends all its money on software development, then who's going to do all that questionable political activism that nobody asked for? :blobcat-sad:
     Another Linux Walt Alt likes this.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2024 05:21:49 JST sj_zero

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     Dirty Little secret most people don't know is that most web browsers are either written by Google (via chromium), or substantially supported by funding from Google to keep the search engine as Google.
     
     One of the immediate outcomes of the recent antitrust suit against Google for this practice is therefore going to be that many web browsers are scrambling for new sources of revenue.
     
     But I will say, when you realize just how much revenue Firefox has been earning, it seems like they should be more than capable of maintaining a web browser and email client forever based on money they should have in the bank...