I agree, but, I think that the reason that things got this bad in the first place was because we let them set the rules for what a web browser should be. Firef

I agree, but, I think that the reason that things got this bad in the first place was because we let them set the rules for what a web browser should be. Firefox was the first major browser that didn't include an email reader, a news reader, and all this other crap. I just wrote in a post a few minutes ago, about how broken Mozilla's design decisions are[1]. They are absolutely unwilling to step out from Google's shadow. Google now gets to decide what it means to be a web browser. And I remember when Microsoft was in that position. I honestly think it would be possible to unseat the one party system we have with web browsers. I wish I had the time to invest in it. If I could though, I think a great place to start would be to just abandon a lot of the crap that we don't need. Microsoft was bloating the standard with all sorts of crap, like css rules for transparency (done poorly), or changing the color of the scrollbars (which everyone abused on myspace). Firefox said no. I think the web is way too heavy. And I'm already used to seeing websites with lots of javascript stripped out. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953226