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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by userbinator on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:43AM (#20851023)
The problem with this is that the web is competing with native apps.

Only for certain things. A lot of web browsing is still pure information-consumption. The "native apps" are also turning into effective webapps, thanks to Electron and the like.

Even this site, which is interactive, doesn't require JS to use (it provides some enhancements, but the site is still quite usable without.)

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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by TheGoddessInari on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:46AM (#20851564)
Google's practices pushing web non-standards haphazardly are so heinous that even Electron can't usually handle general web apps, like WhatsApp (especially) because it depends on Chrome-specific, not even Chromium, features. Many others are the same way.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by echelon on Sunday September 01, 2019 @11:49AM (#20852884)
Can you cite this? I'm collecting a laundry list of reasons Google has degraded the web, and this is certainly evidence.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by green-eclipse on Sunday September 01, 2019 @02:15PM (#20853747)
If you go back in time far enough, Google has improved the web exponentially more than it has harmed it.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by huehehue on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:12PM (#20854118)
This is a bit hard to say, right? Google is also responsible for the normalization of aggressive user tracking and the creation of the ad-ridden tire fire that is the modern internet.
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Re:Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat C... by DCoder on Monday September 02, 2019 @01:45AM (#20857016)
I wrote up one example that was particularly frustrating when I realized it [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/_/egl52...

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