this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he's not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Like many memes, this one exists outside of the original oeuvre (movie, painting, etc). For instance, I have not see the movie it comes from, it wouldn't makes sense to me if it was the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kids these days, amirite...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly, my biggest fear if Apple ever allows other browser engines on iOS is that developers will stop testing on anything other than Chrome. And they will tell iPhone users to "just download Chrome."

I've already heard so many places tell people not to use Firefox or Safari to access their website. It's IE 6 all over again. I hate Chrome and refuse to use it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They'll pry Firefox from my cold dead hands.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chromium, privacy chromium, corporate chromium, spyware chromium, there’s so much diversity! /s

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The strangle hold of control

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Lol.

- Sent from Firefox Browser

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real men telnet to the web server and manually type GET commands and read the raw HTML.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pft you still have to read the HTML? I just stick a fiberoptic in my ass and download it rectally.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate chromium.

It acts like chrome because IT IS CHROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Minus the obvious branding and proprietary "Google-y bits" Unfortunately it's the same codebase.

At least Firefox at it's core truly differs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only reason Chromium exists is because Google is bound by the original license when they bought it, which is copyleft. So they have to release an open source version, which is Chromium. Google Chrome is their flagship product and is proprietary and hence is the one that bears the Google branding and colours.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

iOS be like: they're all safari

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

or, as i call it: Spyware Safari

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel like we've seen this before..

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

There really needs to be a "Linux" of browser engines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn't that gecko, Firefox's engine?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, Gecko was a terrible engine from the get-go. It is also difficult to work with, and had a lot of idiosyncrasies that made hard to build anything that isn't just a clone of Firefox. There's a reason why Apple used KHTML as the basis of Safari and not Gecko. Even Brave is based off of Chromium, and the founder of Brave is one of Mozilla's founders!

So apparently no, Gecko is not it. We need something closer to a pure browser engine that is open source.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is precisely what makes Firefox so important. It's basically the only other open and independent implementation of the web stack. If Firefox goes away then the web becomes whatever Chrome is doing just how it was in the days when IE was the only game in town.

This will also make Google the gatekeeper for the Internet, and there's a pretty big conflict with an ads company controlling how people consume content online. We've already seen how Google keeps trying to make API changes in the engine that kneecap adblockers.

Of course, people could fork Chrome into a separate project, but maintaining a fork is a herculean effort, and it would basically need the funding and infrastructure that Mozilla already has.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oops! All Chromium

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nothing is worse than seeing chromium-based browser users fight other chromium-based browser users. You are all using the same fucking thing!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, ain't this the truth. Firefox and safari are the only browsers that arent chromium based. We must protect Firefox at all coats! Without it, Google would have a monopoly on the browser space... a world I would not like to live in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And even Safari is a Chrome predecessor (roughly KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah... the first repost I've seen on the threadiverse thus far. I hope this doesn't become a trend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back Netscape! Actually I would take the old Opera. That was my browser of choice prior to the chrome integration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Netscape IS Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cue the chorus of lame excuses as for why people are still using Google Botnet instead of Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox is the best. There is only Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Recently switched over to mull browser. Fork of the Firefox browser, works great so far. Also if you are unsure of the security of your browser, could use the website, browseraudit.com, that rates your current browsers. Runs 100+ against several tests and reports back.

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