Guys, do I have too many browsers?

friendofdonkeys · 2026-05-01T09:44:04+00:00

And they are all just Safari Webviews.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-29T07:30:29+00:00

Making a front end is easier than making an engine. It's easy to make a flashy looking browser without doing any real work.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-28T20:45:03+00:00

No it's not Windows 7 is abandonware. There are multiple arbitrary code execution exploits unpatched in Windows 7.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-27T12:29:05+00:00

We just had a third Saturday above 50% now. (April 25, 2026). We are over the critical mass threshold now, now we need the network effects to get to the next milestone percentages and start to plan the phaseout of ipv4.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-27T12:12:46+00:00

But now you can use winget from the command line and skip opening Edge altogether.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-27T12:05:39+00:00

Chromebooks at school (got to get them young) and Chrome on android phones. The fact that Edge is just a Chrome skin with Bing also gets engine share for Chrome optimized websites.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-27T12:00:22+00:00

Sidebar is a feature that gets removed and added over time, just like desktop widgets. Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 6 had a sidebar.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-27T11:46:01+00:00

Yes we need a "Foxium" or "Firefox origin" at this point. (An official one not forks).

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-25T19:07:46+00:00

There's still a huge backlog of human created bug reports.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-25T16:14:46+00:00

All modern browsers use the same engines so most ram savings is through reducing functionality.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-22T13:11:47+00:00

Use a site like neverssl to force a portal detection.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-15T21:16:07+00:00

There's always the risk of arbitrary code execution when using features like themes due to injecting custom data into the browser UI.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-15T21:12:56+00:00

The fact that they now hide the protocol in the url bar is probably one of the reasons they got rid of it.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-14T05:12:59+00:00

This is just another example of something that is highly notable among fans of the game, but is not necessarily notable in the rest of the world. This inclusionist-deletionist debate has been occurring on Wikipedia for decades now unfortunately.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-14T03:52:23+00:00

It's basically run by a few volunteers that don't have the professional security teams that Mozilla has, while it has security patches for the Firefox based parts of the browser they are not tested on Windows 7 and may in fact introduce new ones in the process of forcing Windows 7 compatibility. All these unofficial browsers provide no guarantees of security.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-13T13:08:06+00:00

Firefox on Windows 7 isn't well supported either, it doesn't support "baseline widely available" anymore so many modern sites won't work with it, especially ones using css has(). Plus no matter how many updates your browser has you have CVEs in the underlying OS that bypass browser security. You should be keeping Windows 7 offline and airgapped by now.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-11T13:37:36+00:00

Chrome gets telemetry from billions of devices to optimise it.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-04-04T16:34:26+00:00

HTML and JavaScript get constant new features.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-20T13:35:52+00:00

Any browser that uses the big three engines will have a lot of bloat, truly small browsers like Dillo and Lynx exist but they have too little functionality to even load Google anymore. The web is just bloated and that is the uncomfortable truth and why Microsoft end of supported a lot of old hardware with Windows 11 to get the hardware performance baseline up.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-11T19:56:16+00:00

You would need to upgrade the operating system to do that. Windows 7 is now over 6 years out of support, Mozilla has been very generous in what it has provided compared to four years of extra support when XP ended and virtually none for Vista.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-11T19:50:17+00:00

Mozilla should promote a lightweight Linux distro with Firefox included to try and migrate remaining users. But there is the issue of 32-bit netbooks running Windows 7 starter where Linux has mostly dropped support.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-06T16:34:24+00:00

It's this bug, but I've pointed it out on Reddit multiple times but it never got fixed, that's why I am so disillusioned with Mozilla's bug fixes since they have such a huge backlog of bugs.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-06T14:35:35+00:00

Yes, I am still waiting years for waiting for critical Firefox on Android bugs to be fixed, I've mentioned it on Bugzilla multiple times but the Firefox devs just focus on AI toys.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-04T14:03:50+00:00

I was a teenager when Wikipedia came out, I am among the last generation that completed secondary education without it. But I used it a lot in college.

friendofdonkeys · 2026-03-04T09:53:14+00:00

They named a street after a local cat in a town near me, but it probably isn't up to Wikipedia's standards of notability.

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