Re:Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
by pidg on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:21AM
(#15464941)
First they came for Greasemonkey, but I did not speak out, because I was a Scriptish user...
Re:Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
by arthur_pryor on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:38PM
(#15467200)
i think maybe we should keep "genocide" reserved for people, or at least wait on applying it to software till we think that software might be sentient. linguistic inflation sort of sucks [0].
[0] http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/is-linguistic-inflati... ("linguistic inflation" is a term that i've been using in my own head for years without using it in conversation, so i'm glad to see others have the same complaint)
Re:Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
by KGIII on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:18PM
(#15469314)
Right! Linguistic inflation has literally decimated the English language! /s
I think I sometimes confuse it with hyperbole.
Re:Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
by Seirdy on Friday October 13, 2017 @12:22PM
(#15467000)
It has some negative connotations worth disagreeing with, though. I for one am pro-Webextensions (WE) because the legacy APIs gave all addons unlimited privileges and kept Firefox internals from improving. WE apis have come miles; even Tree Style Tabs has a WE alternative.
I am hopeful for Qutebrowser, though; the dev is working on an interesting approach to extending the browser without WE support by allowing "userscripts" (not the Greasemonkey-esque ones). They can be written in tons of different languages. [Relevant documentation](https://qutebrowser.org/doc/userscripts.html).
Sure, technically it only applies to an ethnic/political/racial/etc group of humans, but it's not _that_ far-fetched to apply it to the systematic and planned extermination of an entire group of software (in this case Firefox add-ons).