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Browsers used to be paid software.
What world are you living in?
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Browsers used to be paid software.
> Browsers used to be paid software. AFAIK the big ones have always been free, except for Netscape between 1995 and 1998.
IE 1.0 was included in a "Windows 95 Plus!" which was sold for $50 in 1994; However it was short-lived and it was included in later releases of Windows [1]
Netscape was sold for $50 [2]
Opera was sold (can't find the price) [3]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Plus!#Microsoft_Plus!_for_Windows_95
[2]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/netscape-navigator-2-0-hits-the-streets/
[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20081013235150/http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/2006/02/15/rendering-engines-and-code-namesRe: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
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#284uBlock filter for some ads on google.com:
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#286Stop using Chrome
The entire internet discourse is filled with "Chrome evil, use Firefox" . Go to any browser discussion on the internet and 99% of the thread is "just use Firefox or Firefox is the best". You would think that everyone uses Firefox. The internet is a bubble. Reality is Firefox usage is pathetic. 32 MILLION people have *STOPPED* using Firefox in the past 4 years. The browser only has a 3.16% market share. https://data.f…
I know that everything you say here is true.
The niche tech circle you speak of /is/ the audience here on HN. If we can’t be bothered to stop using Chrome then all is lost.
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Brave works, Firefox don't, simple as. I tried Firefox numerous times and I always stumble upon glitches, and it still measurable slower. Chromium won, deal with it.
It isn't slower. Not measurably, nor in feeling. Where do you get this? It's also not faster, if that is what you read in my comment: Chrome/ium and Firefox keep improving. And depending on what month and what benchmark, one will outperform the other. Slightly. It could be anecdotal? For any of both browsers, though. E.g. some plugins/addons will slow down the browser significant. Or usage specific? Maybe one handles…
>Where do you get this?
By visiting sites I visit often/everyday in both Brave and Firefox and comparing DomContentLoaded/Load/Finish timings in Developer Tools. Brave (but also Chromium in the past when I used it) is consistently faster.
Not much, but I noticed even before I measured, I did it to check if my feeling is wrong, and it isn't.
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Who debated the 2020 recession? It didn't have two quarters of real GDP growth, but it did have massive job losses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
Well I just found Paul Krugman writing about the "COVID-19 Recession" here on april 30: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/economy-stock-mar... Looked at national review, can't even find an article about the subject; https://www.google.com/search?q=recession+site:nationalrevie... Everyone was preoccupied with other questions mostly at that time, and a lot of the debate was if policy X was too costly economica…
Krugman didn't debate recession semantics.
My point is, if you are going to claim we are in a recession now, to be intellectually consistent, you also have to claim that 2020 wasn't one of the shortest and sharpest recessions ever in history...
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When I need to use a Chrome-like browser, I just use Chromium or Brave.
and people will still not recommend firefox. this is hilarious
Firefox is my daily driver but if something "works best in Chrome" I (assuming I'm interested enough) open it in Brave.
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Brave works, Firefox don't, simple as. I tried Firefox numerous times and I always stumble upon glitches, and it still measurable slower. Chromium won, deal with it.
What glitches? Can you be more specific?
It sometimes failed to load reaction icons on Linkedin. This was happening for a long time, but seems that either Firefox or Linkedin fixed it. I didn't stumble upon it recently.
Firefox don't play MKV videos, I use some site that has embed MKVs.
Slack calls didn't work on it (they workaround it). But I had trouble with other sites that use WebRTC in Firefox.
This is things I recall at this moment, but I don't want to have to use backup browser when something like this happens, so I use Chromium based browser and get on with my life.