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#122You launched a version of chrome, not a new web browser :/
Eh. People say "a new OS" when talking about a new Linux based distro. A new Chromium based browser is apt.
I think the ship has sailed and we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon. If two of the richest companies in the world can't do it ( Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs; MS abandoned their Edge), who could and why? What would be the value add over just using Chromium? It'd be a massive undertaking which you can't profit off because the competition is free.
PS: I'd like someone like the EU Commission ( for instance in the upcoming Digital Markets Act) to force Google to give away Chromium to an independent committee. It is the basis for Internet consumption, it shouldn't be in the hands of a single company.
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#123Congrats on your accomplishment! However, I will never use it because a browser is one of those really important information gateways that I want to be very sure is not compromised.
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You are downvoted, because what you suggest is impractical.
So you either don't realize that or being disingenious with your suggestion.
And that's without considering the need for verified builds, which is a separate issue.
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#124You launched a version of chrome, not a new web browser :/
Eh. People say "a new OS" when talking about a new Linux based distro. A new Chromium based browser is apt. I think the ship has sailed and we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon. If two of the richest companies in the world can't do it ( Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs; MS abandoned their Edge), who could and why? What would be the value add over just using Chromium?…
> we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon
What about Flow? It's a a clean-slate closed-source browser and engine, designed to make effective use of parallelism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(web_browser)
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#125You launched a version of chrome, not a new web browser :/
I would say a browser is much more than its rendering engine, look at weebkit and all its forks and variations (like a programming language is much more than its compiler)
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#126You launched a version of chrome, not a new web browser :/
Eh. People say "a new OS" when talking about a new Linux based distro. A new Chromium based browser is apt. I think the ship has sailed and we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon. If two of the richest companies in the world can't do it ( Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs; MS abandoned their Edge), who could and why? What would be the value add over just using Chromium?…
26 days a go this topped HN:
SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392)
That is a new browser from scratch, (well actually, it is a full OS from scratch). I got the impression this is developed by very few persons.
So to answer your rhetorical questions:
Q: who could?
A: Andreas Kling, Linus Groh and Sam Atkins
Q: why?
A: Because they want to use it. "This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like."
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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You are downvoted, because what you suggest is impractical. So you either don't realize that or being disingenious with your suggestion. And that's without considering the need for verified builds, which is a separate issue.
As someone else already pointed out, you either put in the work or you have to delegate to people who you need to put your trust in.
Google has violated that trust many times, yet people just shrug it off and are like "well just accept your corporate overlords, everything else is just impractical".
Some people in his forum are just obnoxious and every-time I read the comments it reminds me why people call hackernews toxic.
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh. People say "a new OS" when talking about a new Linux based distro. A new Chromium based browser is apt. I think the ship has sailed and we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon. If two of the richest companies in the world can't do it ( Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs; MS abandoned their Edge), who could and why? What would be the value add over just using Chromium?…
26 days a go this topped HN: SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 ) That is a new browser from scratch, (well actually, it is a full OS from scratch). I got the impression this is developed by very few persons. So to answer your rhetorical questions: Q: who could? A: Andreas Kling, Linus Groh and Sam Atkins Q: why? A: Because they want to use it. "This is a syst…
Can you answer this question?
> What would be the value add over just using Chromium?
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
26 days a go this topped HN: SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 ) That is a new browser from scratch, (well actually, it is a full OS from scratch). I got the impression this is developed by very few persons. So to answer your rhetorical questions: Q: who could? A: Andreas Kling, Linus Groh and Sam Atkins Q: why? A: Because they want to use it. "This is a syst…
Can you answer this question? > What would be the value add over just using Chromium?
Not using Google is by itself value added.
Re: Show HN: We launched a new web browser
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh. People say "a new OS" when talking about a new Linux based distro. A new Chromium based browser is apt. I think the ship has sailed and we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon. If two of the richest companies in the world can't do it ( Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs; MS abandoned their Edge), who could and why? What would be the value add over just using Chromium?…
26 days a go this topped HN: SerenityOS Browser now passes the Acid3 test ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392 ) That is a new browser from scratch, (well actually, it is a full OS from scratch). I got the impression this is developed by very few persons. So to answer your rhetorical questions: Q: who could? A: Andreas Kling, Linus Groh and Sam Atkins Q: why? A: Because they want to use it. "This is a syst…
> Andreas Kling Mar 30
> There's still a long way to go before it's usable for daily browsing. For example we need to improve support for flexbox, grid and table layouts. Performance also needs work.
> Our JavaScript engine is decently mature, test262 score tracked here: https://libjs.dev/test262/
In a few years when they have achieved feature parity with Chromium or at least Safari we can discuss this again, but for now it's not ready for real life use.