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So, I left Chrome for all the b's they were doing with/to the web. Now Mozilla is fcking it up, too. Which browser to choose now?

• userbinator 8y ago
  IE6. No, I'm only half-serious. ;-) Remember when the Web was mostly about sharing information, browsers didn't silently auto-update nor break in the process of doing so, organisations didn't add invasive "telemetry" to everything, and things would mostly stay working because the pace of change was generally much slower? Now that the "keep pushing it forward and breaking things" trendchasers seem to have gotten their way, instead we have the constant churn of web development, increasingly bloated sites and JS annoyances, browsers becoming more complex and fragile than OSs, dumbed-down UIs and taking control away from the user --- yes, that includes Mozilla who got to where they are today for their "user freedom respecting" position, and the repulsively ignorant "newer is always better" mentality that's infected even search engines like Google. Maybe I'm just being overly nostalgic, but incidents like these really put things into perspective.
  • martin_a 8y ago
    I understand what you mean and I think I feel quite the same. "The web" has just become so... "strange" in the way everything works and we take care of it or however you'd like to call it. Often it's just broken with full intention to do just to push some new shiny technology on us. And I'd really like if it wasn't that way.