Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough • Hacker News Board

Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 7:37 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #4

> Enough is enough. What I don't like about this post is too much emotion, not much action. > If you’re a Google engineer who is still working on AMP, you are a disgrace to your field. Really? Career shaming? That's very low of the author to do. Why are they a disgrace?

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Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by pellaeon » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

This is definitely something that should be fixed by the vendor, but as a (Firefox) user if you want a quick fix you can use https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js

Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by avery42 » Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

michaelhoffman wrote: post #2

> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech. Not disagreeing with the rest of this, but I love Pocket.

I'm really disappointed that Mozilla still hasn't open-sourced Pocket, like they said they would when they acquired Pocket in 2017 [0]. At this point, it seems like a broken promise.

Given this, I moved to Pinboard, which isn't open-source either, but is faster, easier to use, cheaper, and has taken no VC funding.

I'm interested to see if their increased focus on products that generate revenue, like Pocket, will mean that it'll finally be open-sourced... although it doesn't seem like something that will significantly increase revenue, so I doubt it's a priority.

[0]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/02/27/mozilla-acquires-po...

Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by dsleno » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 12:16 AM UTC

Long live gopher space. Gopher://magical.gopher

Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by MavropaliasG » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

Lets hope that Falcon can serve as a good alternative in the future https://www.falkon.org/

Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by SergeAx » Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 12:36 PM UTC

lolsal wrote: post #51

From the article/rant: > Safari is a joke. Why? I use it daily as my primary browser. I am a software developer. Anytime I enter a discussion about this, I get a lot of responses that are _completely irrelevant to me_ about plugins or ... rendering? or whatever other stuff I honestly can't even remember. None of that stuff matters to me. Safari is a great browser - it's simple, fast, and the only annoying thing about…

The problem with Safari from the web developer viewpoint is that it constantly doing something different. There was a horrible time back in early 200x years when we needed to check our HTML and CSS in all the browsers. Today this is mostly over: 99% of layout and scrips are behaving the same in Chrome, Mozilla and both Microsoft IE and Edge. Except for Safari. It is especially annoying for devs working on Linux or Windows machines: we need to have a separate Mac machine to debug Safari issues, and it is twice annoying to be forced to deal with MacOS/Apple special ways of implementing UI/UX.

Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough

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Post by lolsal » Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

SergeAx wrote: post #66

lolsal wrote: post #51

From the article/rant: > Safari is a joke. Why? I use it daily as my primary browser. I am a software developer. Anytime I enter a discussion about this, I get a lot of responses that are _completely irrelevant to me_ about plugins or ... rendering? or whatever other stuff I honestly can't even remember. None of that stuff matters to me. Safari is a great browser - it's simple, fast, and the only annoying thing about…

The problem with Safari from the web developer viewpoint is that it constantly doing something different. There was a horrible time back in early 200x years when we needed to check our HTML and CSS in all the browsers. Today this is mostly over: 99% of layout and scrips are behaving the same in Chrome, Mozilla and both Microsoft IE and Edge. Except for Safari. It is especially annoying for devs working on Linux or Wi…

You helped illustrate my point though - I don't care at all what you have to do to do your job as a user using a browser. Sort of like how I don't care about how the engine in a Subaru works compared to the engine in a Honda.