The endless browser wars

Re:The endless browser wars by MR4D on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:43AM (#26038207)

I think natural entropy will solve that problem over time. Give Microsoft another year or two, and I think we’ll see a hard fork.

Looking back at WebKit, Google forked that into Blink. I don’t know why Firefox couldn’t do the same.

I suppose in a couple years we’ll be able to check this post to see if Microsoft has done a hard fork or not. Will be interesting to see.

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Re:The endless browser wars by tjoff on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:01PM (#26039229)

I don't know why we'd want Firefox to do that...

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Re:The endless browser wars by dblohm7 on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:20PM (#26041352)

As a Firefox developer, I'm not sure why we'd want to do that.

Forking isn't cheap if you want to make significant changes to that fork. We'd be better off staying with Gecko.

(Oh, and we're still all-in on Gecko)

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Re:The endless browser wars by kenniskrag on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:52PM (#26042250)

why is a redirect after the submission of a login form needed? Usually they say, that's to avoid the misuse of the history function to login. But firefox already knows, that there is a password field and could clear the data after the submit. Why it's not done?

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Re:The endless browser wars by MR4D on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:39PM (#26041551)

I don’t either, but the option is there if it’s ever needed. I guess I wasn’t as clear with my point for Firefox (which was a very different point for Microsoft).

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