What problem are they trying to solve?
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Building Firefox from scratch.
Using Qt and brotli, seems nice! But Discord? Hell no.
Want to contribute to this open project? Create closed Microsoft GitHub & Discord account. https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html
Completely unrelated, but I saw these in close proximity. A name change might be in order if this turns out to be a thing. Then again, maybe not.
Serial killer hysteria returns to Austin after another body pulled from Lady Bird Lake
Not this again... 🙄
the first thing i thought of was the dog from King of the Hill :)
I only think of a First Lady.
ah yes, LBJ's wife, also LBJ.
To be honest, I think the internet is in desperate need of an alternative to the Chrome/Mozilla/Safari trio. Why can I can no longer get a browser that doesn't shove ads in my face and/or track my every move?
I know this isn't being designed as a browser for everyone. But I'm pleased to see making a web browser isn't an un-enterable area yet.
he internet is in desperate need of an alternative to the Chrome/Mozilla/Safari trio.
No it's not. You have lots and lots of different browsers. Do we need another browser engine? Also not. They all do the same thing so while it's good to have some competition we definitely don't need yet another one.
We essentially have three different browsers, that definitively isn't "lots and lots". Every year they get together and agree on what measures can be foisted upon all users with or without their support. The rest are very little more than reskins of each other.
Ok, so what do you want your 4th, new browser to do differently? What's so different about it that you can't build it on top of Gecko?
It's not about a lack of features.
What is it about then? Rendering HTML and CSS in a new, fun way?
No? I've already said what it's about, and I'm not eager to repeat myself 'cause I feel vague meanyness.
What's wrong with Mozilla?
Forces ads in my face via Firefox. Sometimes promotes commercial control of the internet. Is borderline for-profit at this stage with all the moneygrubbing and issues that comes with.
Don't get me wrong, they're the best of the lot by a long long way, but they're still problematic.
What? Where? I haven't seen an ad in Firefox since Carter was president.
Install Firefox with default settings > Look at your new tab page. They're all sponsored ads.
Firefox on mobile collects data and sends it off for marketing purposes, this can't be turned off.
Oh my gosh, that's messed up. And you can't even turn it off??!?
Servo's looking good too.
Servo has been the most exciting one to me for a while. Seems like one of the best foundations for a new browser.
Imagine wanting to see if you can help with the development, but seeing that the development is coordinated on fucking Discord.
I have an eye for typos and like to notify authors as I’m they’ll want to correct them. Blogs that only allow contact via social media apps frustrate me as I’m not on shitbird, fb, insta, etc. Can’t you just have a public email associated with your writing ffs?
Ooh, the irony!
notify authors as I’m they’ll
How about grammar errors?
Hahaha! You got me.
And written in C++ 🙄 How many times does this mistake have to be made?
Not sure what’s the problem there?
It's in Proverbs 11:20
The C++ developers are an abomination to the Lord,
But the Rustaceans in their Rust-based OSes are His delight.
Also, is there any plan to provide binaries and builds? Especially for Android, for example, via F-Droid?
F-Droid does not ship binaries. You submit code to be built by F-Droid. This is its strength and also weakness. IzzyOnDroid just pulls in Github releases, which is pretty cool.
IzzyEnDroid docs don’t say they are limited to MS GitHub
The point is that the releases are signed by developers so they cannot be easily faked
Then you should drop the specific name drop of a proprietary platform when a generic option like code repository or software forge could suffice.
It was just my info that they directly use Github releases. Shipping binary packages next to the codebase is something specific for Github and a few other platforms.
But is there any plans to support GNU Linux distros, like Debian or Nix? From the first look the browser is only for Serenity.
On Nix, it’s available:
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.ladybird ];
It does build on Linux distros as well. There's already a package on the AUR for instance: https://aur.archlinux.org/ladybird-git.git
Linux is the only platform to get native WebGL, too!
That aur link should be: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ladybird-git 🙂
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