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I'm amazed there's been no mention of HNs favourite angry rant topic: Brave is a browser built on electron. And no, I do not mean webkit.

• fooker 9y ago
  A browser built on a browser sandbox, what could go wrong! Can we go deeper?
  • deburo 9y ago
    It has its appeal. An interface made in html/css/js is customizable and programmable from a user's pov. Only the performance can be annoying, but sometimes its not too much of an issue, as Visual Studio Code demonstrated.
    • fooker 9y ago
      Firefox had XUL for a long time, which is imo a better solution for building structured user interfaces compared to raw html.
      • gpm 9y ago
        Mozilla wants to move away from XUL to using HTML though...
      • deburo 9y ago
        I tried modding Firefox once. Maybe its the tools required that are not really well made, but XUL felt like a mess to deal with.
      • deleted 9y ago
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