FarLine99@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoDo you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..?upload.wikimedia.orgimagemessage-square401fedilinkarrow-up1372arrow-down137
arrow-up1335arrow-down1imageDo you trust Brave company and their products: Browser, Search, VPN, etc..?upload.wikimedia.orgFarLine99@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square401fedilink
minus-squareMars@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoFirefox architecture makes remarkably difficult to spin a browser based in its rendering engine. I can forgive the JavaScript think taking into account the specification was made in 3 days and that the suits made “looking like Java” a requirement. Everything else is true.
minus-squareA goat :verified:@mstdn.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year ago@Mars @grue LibreWolf, Pulse, Fennec, Mull, SeaMonkey, Waterfox, Basilisk, Floorp… Seems like there’s a few
minus-squareMars@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoAt least half of those are patched Firefoxes, without telemetry and improved privacy. Brave, Vivaldi, Edge etc are way more different from chromium than any of those from Firefox. The thing is Firefox components are more tightly coupled. blink and v8 are easier to wrap in your own browser than gecko and SpiderMonkey. Mozilla has been refactoring for ages improving the modularity of Firefox, but it may be already to late.
minus-squarekrnl386@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI’d take waterfox off that list. AFAIK it’s dev sold out.
minus-squareA goat :verified:@mstdn.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago@krnl386 and then un sold out. This was just a non comprehensive list of Firefox adjacent browsers that exist anyway, not good ones
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year ago I can forgive the JavaScript think taking into account the specification was made in 3 days and that the suits made “looking like Java” a requirement. Given that the backup plan was to embed Scheme or Python, it would’ve been better for Eich to fail.
minus-squareMars@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoPython in the browsers seems like the only outcome worst than JavaScript in the browser. It sends shivers down my spine.
Firefox architecture makes remarkably difficult to spin a browser based in its rendering engine.
I can forgive the JavaScript think taking into account the specification was made in 3 days and that the suits made “looking like Java” a requirement.
Everything else is true.
@Mars @grue LibreWolf, Pulse, Fennec, Mull, SeaMonkey, Waterfox, Basilisk, Floorp… Seems like there’s a few
At least half of those are patched Firefoxes, without telemetry and improved privacy.
Brave, Vivaldi, Edge etc are way more different from chromium than any of those from Firefox.
The thing is Firefox components are more tightly coupled. blink and v8 are easier to wrap in your own browser than gecko and SpiderMonkey.
Mozilla has been refactoring for ages improving the modularity of Firefox, but it may be already to late.
Tor.
I’d take waterfox off that list. AFAIK it’s dev sold out.
@krnl386 and then un sold out. This was just a non comprehensive list of Firefox adjacent browsers that exist anyway, not good ones
Did not know that… thanks!
Given that the backup plan was to embed Scheme or Python, it would’ve been better for Eich to fail.
Python in the browsers seems like the only outcome worst than JavaScript in the browser.
It sends shivers down my spine.