Can the open source browser get its mojo back before turning into history’s footnote?

  • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Also, what’s with the pushing of the football world championship?

    I don’t care for it.

    I also want a browser that lets me browse the web and do what I want. Not what it decides to shill next.

    In someone’s eyes it might seem a small issue, but they add up.

    All the resources spent on designing, implementing and testing this one-off feature that’ll be scrapped in a few weeks because it’ll outlive its usefullness is an epic waste of time and resources.

    What I want is a chrome-style history page with good UX and not the history sidebar and modal from 20+ years ago.

    That is a much higher ask. But do it well and it’ll serve its purpose for another 20+ years. Not a few weeks.

    And it’ll actually be reasonably useful to users.

    • Eternal192@anarchist.nexus
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      7 days ago

      Give it a bit more time and you’ll have plenty of choices.

      People are sick of the big tech crappy browsers and there are more and more open source alternatives and more and more FireFox forks that strip the crap and give you just the browser Fennec comes to mind and i bet you can ask here for options and opinions and you’ll get a ton of suggestions.

      • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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        6 days ago

        Great suggestion!

        I’m a refugee from Reddit back from the API apocalypse days, so I might be suppsed to be an experienced Lemming, but I’m not.

        Nor here or on reddit do I know “how” to post. What community, what to say, how to say it. I only know how to hijack others’ comments and add in my own shitty take.

        I would very much like to up my browser game. I remember trying to get a userchrome that emulates the 2016-era Chrome tabs, but I had little luck. I managed to make something myself by splicing together some github repos I found, but that was a long time ago and that install is long gone.

        Oh, and to avoid any ambiguity: I switched completely from Reddit onto here in protest during the apocalypse.