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Listen. It's not an absurd expectation that a system only does exactly what it's told to do, and only when told to do so. Don't paint that premise as if it we

• coldtea 11y ago
  >It's not an absurd expectation that a system only does exactly what it's told to do, and only when told to do so. Now, you listen: most simple (non techie) users don't know what they need to "tell browsers to do" in the first place, aside from loading webpages. We had what you propose and people were stuck with 10 year old IE6 versions, tons of viruses from old exploits and plugins, etc. Now we expect modern browsers to be evergreen and to keep themselves secure. That's part of what browser developers are implicitly "told to do" -- and people jump to those browsers (e.g. Firefox when it pioneered that evergreen thing and then Chrome).