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Digikam is not an acceptable substitute, it's got lots of quirks, and tends to abend.
Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…
DuckDuckGo are building new native browser apps for Mac and Linux. Not sure how far along they are, but I know they have teams working on each.
Google Cardboard
Yes, technically it still exists in some form, but not really. The modern version shares little in common with the DOS port - apart from unicode incompatibility, and that's hardly desirable.
Corel have even acknowledged how good the DOS version was by attempting to have a "Classic Mode" with a similar interface. But the macro system is completely incompatible, and all the menus are different. It's a skin-deep facelift, nothing more.
Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…
Internet Explorer but hear me out before you cry: The current browser ecosystem has more or less two engines: WebKit based browsers and Firefox. We have basically WebKit monoculture. If you'd find a fundamental flaw in WebKit, you'd be able to break most browsers. If Internet Explorer would be open source we would have the chance to get a third engine running. Browser engines aren't trivial and IE also had some good…
DuckDuckGo are building new native browser apps for Mac and Linux. Not sure how far along they are, but I know they have teams working on each.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/21/22848133/duckduckgo-brow...
Winamp
Picasa - the photo management program, it had really good facial recognition, and ran locally. Unfortunately, the last version has a bug that swaps face tags in an image with more than one face. 8( Digikam is not an acceptable substitute, it's got lots of quirks, and tends to abend.
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