Re:Firefox 90
by twelvechairs on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:33PM
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So whats the better, more ethical alternative? Certainly not Chrome
I was really rooting for Edge back before they switched to Chromium. Now it's just worse Chrome. I do use it as my default PDF viewer though as I don't know of any other free tool for linux that lets you annotate PDFs. (there's Master PDF but it's a bit overkill when I just want some multicolored highlighters.)
Security-wise, it's far better Chrome.
Privacy score really depends on your views on MS/Google/Mozilla. Firefox is taaaaalkative.
> I don't know of any other free tool for linux that lets you annotate PDFs ...snip... some multicolored highlighters
xournalpp, okular.
Vivaldi.
Re:Firefox 90
by simondotau on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:57AM
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That's still Chromium. I care more about avoiding a browser monoculture than I care about dick-measuring the corporate ethics of the three remaining companies which actually maintain actual browser engines.
People might hate Safari but with Firefox slowly retreating into obscurity, Safari looks to be the final vanguard against a total Chromium monoculture. Yet many on HN absolutely abhor Safari because it doesn't currently support some bleeding edge feature which end users probably don't care about.
Safari is holding mobile apps back. I prefer a monoculture to Chrome+Safari.
Which platforms is Safari available for?
Re:Firefox 90
by simondotau on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:19AM
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Platform availability isn't the operative metric when concerned about browser monoculture. The only metric of concern is browser market share. Safari represents approximately 20 percent of browsers.
Anyway, that was the moment when I realized Mozilla was just another company, not a flagship open source advocator or something. They're not even pretending anymore. Look at the sneaky attempts to integrate ads on Firefox. Look at the user experience being degraded every year. They are not listening to me, so I decided to not listen to them.