2025-05-27,
of browsers and hopes

2017-08-06 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
gold leafed Buddhas, Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand

(youtube) Bobby McFerrin, «Don’t Worry, Be Happy»

with the potential breakup of Google and Mozilla’s loss of Google funding, there’s a lot of speculation over what will happen to Firefox – the best proposals were to return Firefox to its roots – a lightweight, fully standards-based browser – the benchmark browser unencombered by cruft

that being said, what would I like out of a browser?

no LLMs

(this should go without saying) – just as with crypto and other scams, slop has no place in the browser

uBlock Origin

support for the full, uncrippled, Manifest V2 version (either installed by default or baked right in to the base browser)

HTML rendering

doesn’t have to be the fastest, but should be accurate

JavaScript

same, doesn’t have to be the fastest, but should be sandboxed to the tab with some sort of limits to autokill rogue scripts

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