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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

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Post by sshine »

budafish wrote: post #7

There 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.

Yes, the tl;dr of this article seems to be:

> I do not expect ANYTHING to come from this project. I do not expect to finish this project.

So... good luck with that. :)

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by ralusek »

clouddrover wrote: post #2

You'd be better off using and contributing to Firefox. Less work, more result.

I get anxiety about humanity forgetting how to build foundational tools. I feel better when the occasional weirdo dips down into the weeds to try things from scratch. They're often writing blogs and sharing their knowledge, which is nice for keeping the dark arts alive. They're also equipped with knowledge that we didn't have the first time through, and might be able to come up with something fundamentally better.

Good way to help ensure we're not stuck in some local maximum.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by isoos »

dexterlagan wrote: post #9

I 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, passw…

Is your work open source?

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by smabie »

clouddrover wrote: post #10
CodesInChaos wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Tens of people seems generous

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by z3t4 »

You can boycott the bad companies. Spread the word about how they are bad so others can stop using them as well. We live in a world where anyone can communicate with anyone else on the planet. The power is in the hands of the many.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by sshine »

dexterlagan wrote: post #9

I 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, passw…

> I found out that there is a tiny niche market for a privacy-focused, minimalist browser

You mean like Orion by Kagi, Mullvad Browser, Brave, Falkon, Safari, DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser, Firefox Focus, Midori?

I feel like the best browser in this market has yet to show itself.

I doubt it will be one where the author claims it will fail.

Re: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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Post by speps »

If Rust is a must, surely contributing to Servo[1] and learning by sending small PRs to start with would be more beneficial.

However, I do understand as I've done this kind of "from scratch" project before just because I thought I could do it better or because I couldn't get into reading the existing codebase easily. To each their own...

[1] https://github.com/servo/servo

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