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WebLayer: A Chromium embedding API (2019)(groups.google.com)
3 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Waterfox is evil! https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/1406
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Waterfox is evil! https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/1406
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by smnthermes 6y ago
What?! Mozilla funds Google in order to control web standards, and to defend themselves against antitrust suits. Google doesn't need Mozilla to increase their search marketshare. People who care about privacy switch to things such as D
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by smnthermes 6y ago
WebCore is already far diverged from Blink, and V8 was made from the scratch. WebKit is a solid alternative to Chromium.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
WebCore is already far diverged from Blink, and V8 was made from the scratch. WebKit is a solid alternative to Chromium.
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Geoffrey Knauth Elected Free Software Foundation President(fsf.org)
6 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Why not just use a desktop program with online features, then?
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Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)(linuxreviews.org)
121 points by smnthermes 6y ago|58 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> and inability to use software outside of the app store Google wants browsers to be like OSes, because they can't directly compete with desktop OSes. This concept is incompatible with security and privacy, so Google's interest
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Also, V8 isn't even a fork of Nitro/JavaScriptCore, it was made from scratch.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> Maintaining a browser engine is no easy task Reverting anti-adblocker changes doesn't require that many resources.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> Google care very much about the complete and utter ubiquity of their search. Google doesn't even need Mozilla to increase/maintain their search market share. When Firefox's default search engine was changed to Yahoo! in
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Nope. Apple's WebKit is the best weapon against Chromium monoculture. Blink is already far diverged from WebCore, and V8 was made from scratch. On the other hand, Firefox is becoming a Chrom* copycat even under the hood: https:/&
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Or perhaps the far-right just has the habit to coopt members of others groups. Not only free market supporters, e.g. Sara Winter and Carla Zambelli were from the feminist group FEMEN, and nowadays are Bolsonaro supporters.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
> No blocking requests Probably will happen in Firefox too, since Google controls W3C: http://browserext.github.io/
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Rust has relationships with DoD contractor Palantir Technologies(twitter.com)
6 points by smnthermes 6y ago|2 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Claws Mail uses it as well: https://www.claws-mail.org/downloads.php
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Context: Gaming4JC is developer for Hyperbola, that is forking OpenBSD: https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-road...
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OpenBSD is more to blame for Pale Moon absence, due to their hatred of GPLv3(freenode.logbot.info)
1 points by smnthermes 6y ago|4 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Google doesn't actually need Mozilla to increase their search market share. When Mozilla switched to Yahoo in the U.S., many users switched back to Google [1], and those who care about privacy switch to things such as DuckDuckGo anyway
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Good suggestion. People shouldn't believe the FUD spread by Firefox fanboys: 1. http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml 2. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=22270 3. https:/&
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by smnthermes 6y ago
See how Mozilla is fighting for an "open web": https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/youtube-regrets/
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by smnthermes 6y ago
WebAssembly is a security/privacy nightmare: https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2018/10/dark-sid...
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Let's not be defeatists. If KDE forks Qt, certainly more contributors will join during the process.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Not all web apps/websites need the same functionality. And not everyone wants shitty webapps [0][1], so desktop apps should not die. [0]: https://drewdevault.com/2016/11/24/Electron-considered-harmf... [
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“Firefox is insecure” – Refuted [with Daniel Micay's answers](old.reddit.com)
1 points by smnthermes 6y ago|0 comments
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by smnthermes 6y ago
The article may not have technical content, but the title certainly is true: http://pseudoexpertise.com/
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by smnthermes 6y ago
Unless you frequently use spyware websites that are too lazy to do server-side scripting, using a browser with a less used engine is fine.
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by smnthermes 6y ago
They should not do it in the first place. Don't be so dismissive.

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