Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by LoganDark on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:57PM
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A third browser... like what? Chrome and Firefox are all that exist now, unless you have access to a Mac with Safari.
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its time to pull out lynx again.
My "third" browser is GNOME Web, however, I uninstalled it thanks to performance issues. I installed Chrome from Flathub, but with limited permissions, which I only use for cross-browser testing. My main browser is Firefox.
Check out Vivaldi...?
You mean "Chromium with extra steps"?
(I know it's a fork, but the actual engine is still mostly Chromium.)
There are a handful of Webkit based browsers out there, though none that popular except for Safari.
But yes, 3 is all we're left with outside of a few bespoke projects...
Honestly the SerenityOS browser (+ its Linux port, Ladybird) is probably the funniest. I wonder if that passes CloudFlare...
Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by nextaccountic on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:28PM
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Servo seems to be more viable than Ladybird
I remember back when you could run the Servo app on macOS, it was a doge inside a cog and you could actually browse the internet, there was an address bar and back/forward buttons. But now they've actually removed that sort of stuff and given up on making a standalone browser in Rust, in favor of augmenting Firefox instead. See Firefox Quantum.
Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by nextaccountic on Thursday August 10, 2023 @02:38AM
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Mozilla actually fired the Servo developers to focus solely on Firefox (they still employ Rust developers, just not on Servo). But after some years, other companies picked up development on Servo.
Servo doesn't have a browser but I'd wager that writing a full featured browser for Servo would be much more useful than another Blink browser
I think Servo has already served to bootstrap a bunch of Rust-ecosystem things, and that's why they yeeted it. Though webrender and some other offshoots from Servo are still useful for a lot of projects.
Re:Blocked by Cloudflare
by parasubvert on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:23PM
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Chromium isn't Chome. Microsoft Edge is popular. And Opera is still used: my teen daughter seems to have bonded with it on her own.