How Mozilla Ruined Firefox
www.youtube.comFirefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. ...
I think the best alternative would be LibreWolf
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The thing that sucks about that is the sheer amount of stuff that a modern web browser is expected to do.
Level 0:
Level 1:
Level 3:
Level 4:
Basically, writing a browser engine from scratch in a way that is in any way competitive is probably on par for scale on writing your own operating system. You might even accomplish the latter faster, depending on where you’d call your OS “complete”
Level 5: Handle cookies, a local key value store, and a local database internally in a secure way.
Level 6: If you can’t watch Netflix on your browser it’s probably a non-starter for some users so better figure out a way to include DRM compatibility. But if you do it, the privacy minded will get really upset, so ideally you’d figure out a way to do it in some way that can be easily turned off or removed.
Level 7: alright, so implementing all of that was hard. But if you don’t implement it in such an insanely optimized fashion that you can win arbitrary script tests that are meant to strain modern CPUs, the audience most likely to use your browser (geeks) will immediately move to something else and say your browser sucks. Get optimizing.
Unfortunately, I can’t argue with much of that. In fact, if anything, you’re leaving out complexities.
There are a few browsers out there that use WebKit but none of Chromium. (Surf and Uzbl are a couple that I’ve used in the past.) With a little scripting, you could get them to, for instance, run two different “profiles” with different cookie stores at the same time. But they’re far from full-featured.
Maybe what we really need is to scrap the web and start fresh with something better.