Call me sceptic but not falling for it again. I have been hurt too many times.
so you have ptsd from a browser?
Aren't we all?
Helium Browser
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Re: Helium Browser
#292Having the option to set Kagi as my search engine right away is nice. I wish more browsers included Kagi as an option.
My biggest gripe with Safari is that it only handles the few blessed search engines Apple has chosen.
On my personal systems I can use the extension to hack Kagi support in there, but it’s a bit of an ugly solution.
On my work laptop, we aren’t allowed to use the App Store, so I can’t get the extension. This means if I want to use Safari and Kagi, I need to go to the actual Kagi homepage, which is a very annoying behavior pattern.
I used Firefox for a while at work because of this, but now that’s been blocked too. I’m trying really hard not to give in and use Chrome, but at this point, it would make my work life easier. It supports adding other search engines natively, which is quite ironic.
I submitted feedback to Apple about this. They have integrated some of my feedback into past releases (silence unknown callers, most notably), but they must have some silly business reason for not allowing this, which is very disappointing.
Re: Helium Browser
#293> Helium is based on Chromium > Best privacy by default Sorry, pass... Even with un-googled Chromium I do not think these statements are self-consistent. We need browsers that do not allow Google to control the ecosystem. We need legitimate competition. So what, our choices are Firefox (Gecko), Safari (WebKit), and Ladybird? Personally I go with Firefox on most devices and Orion (WebKit) on my iPhone and iPad. > Heli…
> So what, our choices are Firefox (Gecko), Don't forget Servo. People are actively working on it, and it could use more help.
It's not just anyone, it's the folks at Igalia. I think people disregard Servo since it's no longer under Mozilla but Igalia aren't just random contributors picking up the slack, they're browser experts that also work on Chromium.
Re: Helium Browser
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Make it markdown based. It'll be like the web once was... Just documents linking to other documents, with images and videos. We just pretend web 2.0 never happened. Everybody can write markdown so we don't even need web2.0.
You might wanna look into Gopher and Gemini protocols, as they seem to be pretty much exactly that
Gemini is probably not exactly what GP wished for, but it has something resembling a critical mass of users and while I do not think the text format (gemtext, i.e. gmi) is perfect I find it good enough for what it does.
I even use gemtext now and then offline just as an even simpler markdown. Since it has so few features it is trivial to convert gmi to markdown or to any other format without losing anything. It works as a lowest common markup language for when something that minimal is enough.
Re: Helium Browser
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope that not. Or at least, get out of the control of the controversial person behind it. If I would put all the eggs on a basket, I will prefer Servo.
> the controversial person behind Did I miss a controversy somewhere?
Scroll through his X account -- Charlie Kirk and DHH content are some recent entries. He is one of those people who thinks tech should be apolitical without really interrogating what apolitical means or how it affects people who have been marginalized by politics
Re: Helium Browser
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hopefully the Ladybird browser will become a viable choice soon
Did Andreas even mention anything about extensions in Ladybird? I hardly can imagine browsing the Internet without ublock origin or other extensions like cookie autodelete, privacy badger, ublacklist
If you can't modify it to hell and back it's dead in the water IMO. I had to frankenstein my firefox over several weeks to get it to a usable state.
Re: Helium Browser
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope that not. Or at least, get out of the control of the controversial person behind it. If I would put all the eggs on a basket, I will prefer Servo.
Wait, what? What did he do?
In 2021 he once rejected a PR from a new contributer, which was to change the documentation from using the word "he" to "they".
Re: Helium Browser
#298> Helium is based on Chromium > Best privacy by default Sorry, pass... Even with un-googled Chromium I do not think these statements are self-consistent. We need browsers that do not allow Google to control the ecosystem. We need legitimate competition. So what, our choices are Firefox (Gecko), Safari (WebKit), and Ladybird? Personally I go with Firefox on most devices and Orion (WebKit) on my iPhone and iPad. > Heli…
Reminds me of DuckDuckGo's "privacy" browser that is again just a Chrome/WebView wrapper.
Re: Helium Browser
#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
They haven’t solved security yet. They are doomed to repeat Firefox/Chrome issues until they start using that Swift.
what's Swift's role in security?
Memory safety. A more serious reply, discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208836
I think the main repo does not have Swift yet.