▲ 846 ▼ Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (www.theregister.com) submitted 1 year ago by eli001@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 200 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children) Why not just run a community build of Firefox, like IceCat? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] iopq@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 child) If Firefox doesn't keep up with web standards, neither will any of the forks permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago Cold take: we need to stop chasing web Standards that are purposefully set up by big corpo to be exlusionary. What we need, what Firefox could hope to be, is a browser developed for a new old internet paradigm. Maybe Gopher, or Gemini (the good one). Alternatively a purposefully reduced HTML+CSS, no JS. Trim down the fat so that it is actually possible to finance the development of a web engine an browser without leeching on a dick corpo (and sabotagong open internet in the process). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iopq@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 child) If Firefox doesn't keep up with web standards, neither will any of the forks permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago Cold take: we need to stop chasing web Standards that are purposefully set up by big corpo to be exlusionary. What we need, what Firefox could hope to be, is a browser developed for a new old internet paradigm. Maybe Gopher, or Gemini (the good one). Alternatively a purposefully reduced HTML+CSS, no JS. Trim down the fat so that it is actually possible to finance the development of a web engine an browser without leeching on a dick corpo (and sabotagong open internet in the process). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago Cold take: we need to stop chasing web Standards that are purposefully set up by big corpo to be exlusionary. What we need, what Firefox could hope to be, is a browser developed for a new old internet paradigm. Maybe Gopher, or Gemini (the good one). Alternatively a purposefully reduced HTML+CSS, no JS. Trim down the fat so that it is actually possible to finance the development of a web engine an browser without leeching on a dick corpo (and sabotagong open internet in the process). permalink fedilink source parent