• onepinksheep@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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

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    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.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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    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.

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      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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    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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    God damn I thought I saw the last of these stupid browser takes on reddit, chromium is open source and we’ve seen multiple browsers (Brave, Vivaldi, I think librewolf) using its potential to remove themselves from the chromium baseline and build out their own fork with ad blocking services that didn’t go down when manifest V3 happened.

    There’s no “browser monopoly” anymore than there’s a “V shaped engine” monopoly in cars. Why don’t people use Gecko more? That’s like asking why people don’t use rotary piston engines in cars, you could, it’s just garbage. Gecko isn’t the standard because no one wants to build a web browser with it.

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        not to mention just shitty to use.

        Come back to me when Firefox has workspaces, tab stacking, a side panel, and the rest of the aesthetic customization of Vivaldi.

        You’re a fanboy, clearly, but you haven’t actually argued why Firefox is better, just that you like it more because you’re seething at chromium.

        Firefox lost because it used to be shitty and everyone just assumed it still is, whoops. Better luck next time. When Vivaldi stops blocking ads natively without an installed ad blocker (still haven’t noticed any YouTube ads post V3) I’ll consider switching. Until then, this “bUt cHrOmiUm” shit is just a joke.

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          None of that is chromium. Vivaldi could have built that on top of Firefox, but didn’t. As to why Firefox is better, the very fact that it’s an alternative that is keeping up technically is a benefit. It’s less a ‘V-shaped engine’ monopoly and moreso a ‘V8 engine made by a specific company’ monopoly. They have far too much control over the direction of web standards. Much of what they are doing is actually good, but it should then be spread based on merit, rather than because they directly control almost the entire market.