vlad-roundabout (u/vlad-roundabout)

vlad-roundabout commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

hoppyhoppy2 · 6 months ago

No thinly-modified version of Chromium is going to save us from Google having almost unilateral power over the implementation of web standards, creating a browser monoculture. None of these forks is making substantive changes to the browser engine; it's often just Chromium with a few configuration tweaks and cosmetic enhancements.

vlad-roundabout · 6 months ago

I agree a Firefox or WebKit browser would be better, but give me one.

vlad-roundabout commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

iteratethis · 6 months ago

We need to be honest about what value Firefox really has left.

Commercially, it's completely irrelevant. On big websites it doesn't even show up in the top 10 browsers and it's almost entirely absent on mobile. Site owners can readily ignore Firefox.

Firefox is no longer a developer default. I'm sure some of us in our bubble have strong personal preferences but the entire dev ecosystem is chrome-based. Very advanced devtools, Google having a team of "evangelists", course material is Chrome-based, test-automation, etc. So developers too can ignore Firefox.

Some argue that it's good to have an independent rendering engine. Here too Firefox plays no role at all. The only counter force to Google's web feature roadmap is Apple/Webkit, not Mozilla.

From a privacy preserving perspective, Firefox has no unique value. Install Brave, say no to the one-time crypto pop-up, and you have a very decent and fast browser that also consistently renders along with Chrome and Edge.

I use Firefox. If I ask myself why, it's muscle memory and because uBlock Origin still works.

vlad-roundabout · 6 months ago

Even better than Brave is a "no-name" browser like Ungoogled Chromium made to protect actual privacy, not the interests of some company!

vlad-roundabout commented on Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google mozillapetition.com/... · Posted by u/notpushkin

vlad-roundabout · 6 months ago

I think shipping Google is fair. It's not forced upon anyone, and much better than collecting data themselves, or advertising their own services, or making proprietary software.

vlad-roundabout commented on Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption github.com/openui/open-ui... · Posted by u/ksec

vlad-roundabout · 6 months ago

Some fruits of this project have already landed in some browsers:

* Popovers: https://open-ui.org/components/popover.research.explainer/, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Popover_API

* Exclusive accordion: https://open-ui.org/components/accordion.explainer/

* New select, already in Chromium only: https://open-ui.org/components/customizableselect/

vlad-roundabout commented on Open-UI: Maintain an open standard for UI and promote its adherence and adoption github.com/openui/open-ui... · Posted by u/ksec

AyyEye · 6 months ago

Hopefully the user has the same freedoms to style things how they would like.

vlad-roundabout · 6 months ago

Yes, one can style them with a userstyle as always.