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by zmw 8y ago
Container tabs just makes up for lack of easy profile switching (at least on macOS, not sure about Windows or Linux), which was in Chrome for years. Even after it came, I gave it a try and found it pretty cumbersome. (Before I get you-can-d
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by zmw 8y ago
GP claims that FF performance is terrible, which I cannot endorse (I guess GP might be having an actual issue), but I'll make a different claim: performance is not as good as Chrome (or maybe even Safari), despite all the accolades of
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by zmw 8y ago
Check out clipboard.js.
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by zmw 8y ago
> Its not a higher level of http Of course it's not higher level of HTTP, I never said that. I said higher level than HTTP. HTTP is just a stateless transport protocol, of course dat is higher level, and as I said much of the be
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by zmw 8y ago
Umm, having everyone’s data as a flat directory as opposed to an aggregated database sounds terribly inefficient... You need to somehow build a distributed, decentralized database on top of that flat structure, right? Otherwise your Twitter
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by zmw 8y ago
> Decentralization is a second-order effect. I see, I was looking at it backwards.
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by zmw 8y ago
Thanks for the list. > You can generate domains freely using pubkeys and without coordinating with other devices, therefore enabling the browser to generate new sites at-will and to fork existing sites. Not entirely sure what you mean, -
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by zmw 8y ago
That indeed is a fundamental difference. But on second thought I got confused. Source independence, content addressable are nice and all, but we don't build static websites that always have same hashes; "Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 ISO&
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by zmw 8y ago
I checked out Beaker Browser, and apparently it's based on the Dat project [1], which seems to be very similar to IPFS. Then apparently it follows that, just like IPFS, you can't throw random things onto the network and expect it
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by zmw 8y ago
To add a little bit to my UI complaints: I recall that one of the original designs goals of Chrome was to reduce the chrome (ref: 2008 Chrome comic book). Over the years I’ve had a number of UI complaints with Chrome too and actually switch
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by zmw 8y ago
I confess that I have uMatrix in Chrome but not FF, but I do use pihole, and it’s not really a third party scripts problem, FF feels slower on perfectly clean sites.
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by zmw 8y ago
I keep hearing how awesome FF quantum is. I always have a copy of FirefoxDeveloperEdition for the occasional compatibility testing, and I keep coming back to it over the last few months, the last time being yesterday, but it just feels as s