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Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by Conan_Kudo »

finite_depth wrote: post #123
dilawar wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> those who almost universally loathe their own country's products. In Indian rural side, "desi" (native) is almost always synonyms with bad quality, not cheap which is implied, but bad quality. I heard that desi in many foreign country means Indian?! Desi or swadesi (home made) had a special emotional appeal to urban upper middle class leadership during freedom struggle. I don't know how they feel about it. Chandray…

American here: I've only heard "desi" used as a self-descriptor by South Asian people, usually Indian (but I think Pakistani sometimes as well?). It doesn't carry a negative connotation here that I know of, though I might have missed one that does exist.

As an Indian-American, I've heard variations of this to describe first-gen American born Indians in a negative fashion. Sometimes, the shorthand "ABCD" is used (meaning American Born Confused Desi) to insult American Indians. This is principally used by Indians who either live in India or emigrated to the US and encounter American Indians.

(As an aside, it's rather difficult to accurately describe my ethno-national status given the regular confusion with people of the First Nations...)

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

have_faith wrote: post #105
brabel wrote: post #72

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> This is a huge psychological factor in the hearts and minds of Japanese people. I think countries mostly fall into one of two baskets: * those who normally favor their own country's products. * those who almost universally loathe their own country's products. I was born in one of the latter types of countries. Where I am from, the word "imported" was absolutely synonym with "better quality". It didn't even matter w…

The UK these days is a bit of a mixed bag. The love/loathe difference depends a lot on the product category.

I was just thinking about the IT Crowd joke where the fire extinguisher’s flammability is explained because it was “Made in Britain”.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by skinkestek »

fabrice_d wrote: post #122
superkuh wrote: post #116

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And inherently a far less ram using browser. I do 500 tabs in under 3GB. By also not implementing all the useless attack surfaces like DRM, Integrated PDF reader, WebRTC, and friends it avoids many of the exploits which make modern browsers like FF and Chrome insecure. Overall it probably balances out. Especially since PM users are likely to have JS execution disabled by default (like I do).

It's pointless to say things like "500 tabs under 3GB" without knowing what's loaded in these tabs.

Can you think of any realistic tab set that would result in Chrome or Firefox using as little memory?

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by _lvbh »

bluish29 wrote: post #20

For reference, this is not just the only player in town (for Firefox forks). There is the following: - librewolf (Desktop) [1] - Mull (Android) [2] - Iceraven (Android) [3] - Mercury (Desktop) [4] - Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5] - Waterfox (Desktop) [6] - Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission - Pale Moon (Desktop) [8] - Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9] - Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10] This list is not inclusive.…

Been using Librewolf for a while simply because it has good defaults

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by onthecanposting »

phantomathkg wrote: post #107

Looking at the 4 team members referenced in the different thread [0], we can tell they are a team of 4 people, one of them are university student and 3 high school students. Maybe we shouldn't bash them too badly and instead encourage them tempering around and contribute to open source more in the future? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735533

I wouldn't be that shocked if four students with no budget produced a better product than the Mozilla Corporation.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by BirAdam »

bluish29 wrote: post #20

For reference, this is not just the only player in town (for Firefox forks). There is the following: - librewolf (Desktop) [1] - Mull (Android) [2] - Iceraven (Android) [3] - Mercury (Desktop) [4] - Pulse Browser (Desktop) [5] - Waterfox (Desktop) [6] - Floorp (Desktop) [7] --> This submission - Pale Moon (Desktop) [8] - Mullvad Browser (Desktop) [9] - Tor browser (Desktop - Android) [10] This list is not inclusive.…

also: basilisk, mypal, k-meleon

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by skotobaza »

Razengan wrote: post #129
skotobaza wrote: post #128

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Look at the PC ports. Games tied to FPS which results in poor in-game physics behavior. Inability to change settings. It's like they live on some other planet not us... Devil May Cry 3 and Dark Souls 1 jumped to my mind immediately as notoriously bad ports. Even DMC4 and DMC5 have some problems. FromSoft games improved the quality of their ports on the other hand. I do understand that Japanese mostly play on consoles…

PC in general basically stands for Patch City. It's a hellish development environment even for Western PC-only studios. WHICH PC game has been free of bugs in recent times anyway? While on the other hand pretty much every PS5 game has been basically flawless on release day.

It's not even about common bugs, it's about design choices. PC players are accustomed to being able to tweak their games. But in Japanese games you either can't tweak anything or the tweaks just don't work because the developers hardcoded settings in the executable (DMC4 SE as an example).

>WHICH PC game has been free of bugs in recent times anyway? Most indie games that I played. AAA-games are bug fests not because of the platform but because of the negligence by the developers.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by taeric »

cassepipe wrote: post #109
rjh29 wrote: post #74

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It's just a country like any other, most of us are proud of the things our country has done.

Well I must be part of the exception then. I am not proud of anything I have not directly contributed to. Feeling proud for other people achievements is very strange to me.

I mean, you aren't one in a million rare, but it should be fairly obvious from the existence of sports fans that pride over other's accomplishments is very much a common trait.

My guess is you are taking a narrower view of this than you intend? People don't necessarily take personal pride in what others have done. But identity is both personal and societal. And any accomplishment of identity is something that people are likely to feel pride in.

That is, pride is often tied to identity. And identity has a pretty wide brush.

Re: Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan

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Post by taeric »

zaphirplane wrote: post #114
rjh29 wrote: post #110

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I assume you don't feel shame for things your fellow humans have done either? Anyway everyone is different, but I'm talking about neurotypical people mostly.

Interesting, I’m surprised that you think the average person feels shame over the actions of bad people. I would have said sadness in sympathy to the victims and disgust for the bad person

I would be surprised if most people don't feel some shame when a sibling or other close relative does something bad?

Heck, most of us are effectively different people than we were in the past. And we very much feel some shame when we find out something bad we did back when.

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