Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by SUr3na on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:52AM (#19366901)

You need around 70mb of sheer complexity to render a page fully correct and you need millions of dollars to build a competitor that would lose because level of complexity is increasing daily .By the time you cover what you thought the web was ,the most used browser chrome had already came up with more complexity to add to the web.Web sucks and this helps the monopoly.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by snaky on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:57AM (#19366925)

What if some browser would exist that could render only 90% of pages fully correct, but would be twice as fast as Chrome and use 30% of memory?

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by SUr3na on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:18AM (#19367040)

I would use it and recommend it to people I know, as I already do. But how about no browser at all? How about I use my own video player to watch a file I received over network? We have essentially operating systems(web browsers) with pipelines, processes and sandboxing just to be completely ignored by websites which instead shove a message "install our app" down our throat.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by pcwalton on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:44PM (#19372820)

Impossible. Look at what your memory usage in a browser goes to (about:memory). Most of it is DOM/JS, images, media, etc.: things that are used by well over 90% of pages.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by themacguffinman on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:07PM (#19374378)

I think Safari fits that mold pretty well. It often trades features for simplicity and resource efficiency.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by eveningsteps on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:59AM (#19366940)

You mean, Internet Explorer?

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by snaky on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:01AM (#19366950)

> twice as fast

I doubt it.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by wmeredith on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:48AM (#19367224)

You just described my user experience with Brave.

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by dest on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:33AM (#19367929)

Huh, is'nt Brave built on libChromium?

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Re:Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward ... by 0-_-0 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:32AM (#19367915)

What doesn't Brave render correctly? (Asking out of curiosity, not provocation.)

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