Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks agoIf anyone has any suggestions for browsers hook me up, I’m running out of browsers with thier own engines to try. I don’t see much point in using, say, LibreWolf if the engine is still the same as Firefox (Gecko in this case). Maybe I’ll give NetSurf a try and pretend like it’s 1996 again.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
That’s still a fork of Firefox, isn’t it? I was hoping to find a reasonably modern browser that doesn’t rely on gecko or blink. I’d be okay with a WebKit browser but I don’t have a Mac.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Servo is the one I follow in that space
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Oh good, more rust! (j/k i don’t have the feverish hatred of rust that some people seem to)
ikidd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You really don’t understand what a browser engine is, do you?
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
I do, in fact. I get that they are typically open-source, and I also understand how ridiculously difficult it is to create one from scratch. If LibreWolf or whoever want to make privacy focused browsers based on mozilla foundation or google that’s fine and I support it, but I’m personally curious if there are any mainstream browsers that don’t have any (or minimal) reliance on google and mozilla foundation.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
It would have been nice if Opera had released the source code of Presto
ikidd@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I figured you did. It’s the guy you were replying to that seems confused.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m afraid that not using Gecko or Blink may expose me to any sort of malware while visiting the web tbh
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
If all of the web engines enshittify, you can always
curlthe HTML/CSS/JS and hand-parse it. Might have suboptimal performance however.kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
lol if it ever gets to that point i’m just gonna go straight Lynx.
AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The Lynx browser is surprisingly nice.
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
It’s actually incredible for getting real reading done without my ADHD taking over and opening up 30 tabs of “ooh whats this?”
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Might” is doing some awfully heaving lifting there 🤣
kieron115@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Gonna get my news one pixel at a time just like grandpappy did on his 9600 baud.