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I hate to be that person, but why is it so exciting to exchange our privacy and freedom for a shiny piece of software? What's so wrong with Firefox + PhantomJS?
by copperx 10y ago
I hate to be that person, but why is it so exciting to exchange our privacy and freedom for a shiny piece of software? What's so wrong with Firefox + PhantomJS?
- dennykane 10y agoI love to be that person that hates on people that hate to be that person. What I'm trying to say is simple, yet profound. Mozilla is filled with losers. Literally, Mozilla came out of the ashes of a ridiculous state of affairs in the late '90s called Netscape. Their only contribution anymore is writing documentation. Google is filled with winners. While everyone was waving their hands around so furiously at Netscape during the dotcom blowup, a mild-mannered young man named Lawrence Page was busy doing it the right way, filled with humility, wonder, and unlimited curiosity. I can literally smell Mozilla types from a mile away in forums like this. Thanks for the tabs idea, Mozilla. Other than that, no... body... cares.
- waingake 10y agoI agree with the sentiment. However an issue I had using PhantomJS is that it doesn't support modern JS rendered sites ( doesn't support much es5 at all it seems) I needed to create a pdf from such a site and couldn't get PhantomJS to do it. Headless chrome saved the day.
- dennykane 10y agoAnd yet, no one is ever allowed to say anything like this around here: Google is awesome, Googlers are geniuses, Chrome is an absolute marvel of technological wonder. Mozilla, not so much. Seriously.