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Someone made an app / service that remote desktops chrome on a server to avoid the bloat? Instead of using Firefox? Was that an April fools?
by waheoo 5y ago
Someone made an app / service that remote desktops chrome on a server to avoid the bloat?
Instead of using Firefox?
Was that an April fools?
- stephc_int13 5y agoNah, this is the future of Internet, according to PG :)
- waheoo 5y agoLol. Smells like thin clients of the early naughties.
- moshmosh 5y agoThe punchline was that, IIRC, it's an Electron app. Also PG and others were evidently very upset that, aside from just laughing at the obvious humor of the situation, lots people expressed wishes—for a bunch of reasons; e.g its most viable business models all seem to involve spying or other shady behavior; it's just a bad sign for where the Web is at so it would be sad to see that become normal—that the company doesn't do very well.
- stephc_int13 5y agoI was modestly part of the haters, with a few more vocal and visible guys such as Jonathan Blow or Casey Muratori. Fierce Nerds :)