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I'm glad to see someone still has the courage to work on browsers - which is increasingly declared "infeasible". Well done. > We have been moving further away

I'm glad to see someone still has the courage to work on browsers - which is increasingly declared "infeasible". Well done. > We have been moving further away from privacy and towards But sorry, I literally stopped reading at that point. The only feature that people want and need from browsers, and the only reason to even glance twice at yet another Firefox fork is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. There is enormous scope here to add value - adding client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration. How about starting with a browser that can remember your privacy settings, instead of silently "updating" and defaulting back to the worst possible settings as Firefox does? Having the latest (probably broken and more privacy invasive) presentation features would be very low on my list.

kristiandupont 4y ago
>The only feature that people want [...] Well, not me.
chrismonsanto 4y ago
> The only feature that people want and need from browsers ... is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. ... client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration That's what you're interested in at least, I don't care about these features and if it was up to me the #1 priority for Firefox developers would be making desktop mode persistent by-site on Android
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Anyway, once again, well done. It seems to me that mainstream "web browsers" have become new "operating systems", but without the visbility, structure and purpose of actual operating systems.
  - agileAlligator 4y ago
    I'll say this to anyone who will listen, we need to stop treating browsers as OS'. Whatever happened to good old desktop applications?
latexr 4y ago
> I'm glad to see someone still has the courage to work on browsers - which is increasingly declared "infeasible". It’s new browser engines which are increasingly declared unfeasible. Browsers themselves are a dime a dozen.
agileAlligator 4y ago
> adding client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration. How many people really care or even know about these things? 1 percent of the populace? Privacy is one aspect, sure, but it seems to me that the majority of the population simply doesn't care one way or the other. It's not a "killer app". Otherwise, everyone would be using something like Pale Moon by now.
xigoi 4y ago
> The only feature that people want and need from browsers, and the only reason to even glance twice at yet another Firefox fork is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. How many people have you asked?
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kristiandupont 4y ago

>The only feature that people want [...] Well, not me.

chrismonsanto 4y ago

> The only feature that people want and need from browsers ... is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. ... client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration That's what you're interested in at least, I don't care about these features and if it was up to me the #1 priority for Firefox developers would be making desktop mode persistent by-site on Android

nonrandomstring 4y ago
Anyway, once again, well done. It seems to me that mainstream "web browsers" have become new "operating systems", but without the visbility, structure and purpose of actual operating systems.
- agileAlligator 4y ago
  I'll say this to anyone who will listen, we need to stop treating browsers as OS'. Whatever happened to good old desktop applications?

latexr 4y ago

> I'm glad to see someone still has the courage to work on browsers - which is increasingly declared "infeasible". It’s new browser engines which are increasingly declared unfeasible. Browsers themselves are a dime a dozen.

agileAlligator 4y ago

> adding client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration. How many people really care or even know about these things? 1 percent of the populace? Privacy is one aspect, sure, but it seems to me that the majority of the population simply doesn't care one way or the other. It's not a "killer app". Otherwise, everyone would be using something like Pale Moon by now.

xigoi 4y ago

> The only feature that people want and need from browsers, and the only reason to even glance twice at yet another Firefox fork is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. How many people have you asked?

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