I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
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Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#2You'd be better off using and contributing to Firefox.
Less work, more result.
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#3I could have written this, except for the being a good enough programmer to write a browser that is. I wonder if the author has heard of the ladybird browser? https://ladybird.dev/
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#4Of all the passionate reasons one could imagine a person needs to feel compelled to write their own browser, this was quite unexpected.
I guess if news affect your mental well-being negatively it is legitimate to avoid them. But I would believe a day long session with the blocklist of your choice would be better?
Or just accept a certain degree of news, in the end you live in a world with other people who read news and unless you are a hermit things are going to come up eventually. Reducing can be better than attempting the impossible and fail.
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#5The link to your Github project in the article leads to somewhere else
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#6It would be cool to see a browser being made in the Blender/Godot style of open source. Set milestones, encourage a friendly community to gather around, raise funds, manage it well, and back to step one again.
I certainly would love to see more options of browsers.
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#7There are a lot of words the author used to simply say, "I'm going to start my pet project, which I also believe is going to fail very soon for a number of reasons"
Not much actual good content here.
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#8You'd be better off using and contributing to Firefox. Less work, more result.
But probably less fun as well.
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#9I wrote a couple custom browsers for both pro and personal reasons. I found out that there is a tiny niche market for a privacy-focused, minimalist browser that a) does not understand cookies, b) executes JS only when allowed to and c) is capable of displaying most decent Web sites without garbling them. I had good success with using Chromium as backend, and slowly adding the stuff we do need (download manager, password vault, auto-complete). Turns out it's quite easy to setup, but there's one annoying chunk: dealing with creating tabs or new windows. 'Modern' Web sites use and abuse that mechanism to display pop-ups, and it's quite a challenge to handle. Good luck to ya!
Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
#10You'd be better off using and contributing to Firefox. Less work, more result.
But probably less fun as well.
He's not doing it for fun. He's doing it because he's "fed up with it".
GoSub will be used by tens of people. If he makes a contribution to Firefox it will be used by millions of people.