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It doesn't support a lot of modern Wi-Fi chipsets. There was an entire wave of Broadcom-powered stuff that they weren't able to develop for.
That sounds more like licensing issues than "being 20 years in the past."
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It doesn't support a lot of modern Wi-Fi chipsets. There was an entire wave of Broadcom-powered stuff that they weren't able to develop for.
That sounds more like licensing issues than "being 20 years in the past."
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I don't remember Windows 95 & MS Word 6 being especially snappy. I think this is nostalgia.
Same for MacOS 6 and 7 on period hardware. It’s anything but snappy. MacOS 7 on PPC was snappy compared to Windows 95 on Intel, and that’s it. Amiga was snappy, compared to Windows, but I have a working Amiga 600 and it’s not a great platform even for email.
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> since huge parts of Haiku are written in C++ Sometimes pre-standard C++ and sometimes C++ 98. There's a lot of "C with classes" and stuff that C++ proponents will insist isn't now "really" C++ because that no longer suits their understanding of the language. As is common for that era it has its own custom string type, BString, and so on. So Swift is about 20 years over their horizon, and modern Swift is even furthe…
Some things never change, regardless of the modern C++ discussions. Apple, Google and Microsoft "modern C++" frameworks also use their own types, instead of the standard library. See Android NDK, IO Kit / Driver Kit / Metal bindings, C++/WinRT and WIL.
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According to Mozilla's own numbers, Firefox Monthly Active Users have been trending down for years and are currently sitting at around 155 million. Source: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
If you switch from 'Worldwide' to 'United States' Firefox has shed 1/3 of its MAU in the last 5 years, much worse then I thought.
I have said it before, Haiku feels like it is simultaneously 20 years in the future and 20 years in the past. The interface is so incredibly snappy but there is a lot of basics missing such as WiFi support. Seeing a modern browser supported does fill a big gap however. Who knows maybe one day through a series of silly unpredictable events it will be the OS of choice and running Ladybird browser in a similar fashion.
Is there good laptop support? By that I specifically mean, good power control management and display brightness control.
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I don't remember Windows 95 & MS Word 6 being especially snappy. I think this is nostalgia.
Same for MacOS 6 and 7 on period hardware. It’s anything but snappy. MacOS 7 on PPC was snappy compared to Windows 95 on Intel, and that’s it. Amiga was snappy, compared to Windows, but I have a working Amiga 600 and it’s not a great platform even for email.
If you're gonna do that, then remember how much faster a well-expanded Amiga was. Even faster than any real 68k Mac when emulating Mac.
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chrome eat their lunch for only one reason: everytime you were doing a google search, google literally begged people to download their browser while half of the smartphone were coming with google chrome by default. In the head of people google and chrome slowly became a synonym of internet the same way the ie icon used to be in the previous decade.
Beware of simplistic reasoning. What you mention was certainly a major reason, but not the only one. Another one was that Chrome was simply a better browser for many years for normal users (mainly because of its performance).
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With a fraction of the userbase it had 20 years ago, thanks to everyone that keeps shipping Chrome with their applications, testing only with Chrome developer tools, and so on. Anyway, congratulations to anyone involved in the port.
Wouldn't 20 years ago have less people using Mozilla/Firefox since everyone was still using IE6? I remember around that time i was still encountering several (public, not internal) sites that refused to work with anything that wasn't IE6. I think at least nowadays people try to pretend they care about web standards.