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Re: Helium Browser

#51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it's written in Python.

it's a few hundred lines worth of scripts to produce an ungoogled chromium with some nicer defaults, why wouldn't it, in case pointing that out is meant to be a criticism.

oh ok, welp, :shrug:

Re: Helium Browser

#52
post #17

Why did anyone think it was a good idea to put tabs in the title bar. How the hell am I supposed to easily drag a window if I have 100 tabs open? Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Why do I feel like the only sane human being left on Earth? Why is this project continuing to use this horrible UI convention? How are they going to make money or enshittify this in the future or sell it off to an evil billion doll…

Firefox does that too and avoid this issue reserving a small space on right site of title bar. Not the end of the world.

Re: Helium Browser

#56
post #25

>We'll keep support for MV2 extensions for as long as possible. This doesn't particularly give people any confidence in your product if even the devs don't know how long they can hold the line. Why not fork Firefox like Zen?

I know this is unfair to firefox, majority of enterprise software now (including and starting with Microsoft teams) outright say do not support firefox or have ‘limited’ support whatever that means. For anyone working remotely like me, teams is a crucial piece of software (however bad it is). So as much as I like Firefox and legends that started it and religiously developed it over the years, bottom line, I can’t use…

> majority of enterprise software now (including and starting with Microsoft teams) outright say do not support firefox

Teams has explicitly supported Firefox for a while now https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-clien... but the problem is "there's always another site that doesn't work right". Firefox usage share got too low, so places just check Chrom* and Safari work with the new feature and ship (sometimes not even the latter, if they don't care about mobile as much).

Re: Helium Browser

#57

What is the primary difficulty in developing a web browser? - breadth of the http/css/js standard? - inefficient implementations - requires too many resources? Why has the market converged on two major players and most independent attempts fall short?

They're 30+ million lines of code to cover the feature set, but monetization is tough and security/feature churn is constant. It's also nearly meaningless to start small - either you build everything or you don't.

This is just Chromium with some patches though, the problem with these kinds of things is it's small groups that tend to lose interest.

Re: Helium Browser

#58

In the "choose a default search engine" page, it has a slightly amusing summary for each. > Google > Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices. > Qwant > Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft. > DuckDuckGo > Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you. > Ecosia > May plant trees for clicking ad…

Slightly amusing, perhaps, but accurate and concise? Definitely.

Re: Helium Browser

#60

I just can't go back to horizontal tabs anymore.

What are you using instead?

Not OP, but I use vertical tabs with Vivaldi.

Pretty happy with it; I tried basically all browsers out there, fully switching to them for some time even if I didn't even like them, and after all that time I found Vivaldi the best overall browser right now (for me).

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