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That gif reeks of buzzfeed. You don't belong here.

And the only thing it's done is create an inferior GUI than the one windows has. They can at least make one that is more productive.


It's a combination of the hardware getting more complicated as well as the software. Granted I wont say windows GUI code is perfect but I can draw a triangle with OpenGL 1.1 and win32 in under 100 lines of code. Xlib is basically just as complicated but with worse documentation. Modern graphics API's like Vulkan take at least 1000 lines to draw anything on the screen. This is because graphics cards and modern hardware is just too complicated.


OH SHI-

>Why don't all browsers have built-in wget for full page archiving? Why don't all browsers have built-in adblock and UMatrix mechanisms? Why doesn't the browser tell me what the page IP is? Why doesn't it tell me my external IP is? Why doesn't the browser let me override the network DNS and even filter the queries? Why can't I easily choose to block any page element that I want in my browser, for instance that stupid fucking Xmas hat on all thumbnails in >>>Holla Forums right now? I should be able to right click and choose block element for it to be fucking gone for the session. Why don't all browsers have a full page screenshot button? Where's the button to change my user agent to whatever? Actually why is there a user agent even? This is the webdevs fault, fuck webdevs again!

It's obvious that we need a real browser not meant to cater to normies, web standards, and advertisers. It should automatically rip out all useful content, arrange it on the screen, block all ads, trackers, JS, font downloads, background images, and so on. I think wget is the perfect back end for this as it stands, we just need a front end program for picking out the parts of interest and displaying them in a way that's easy to use and easy on the eyes. For now this is still possible but with DRM and Web Assembly it will become much more difficult in the future.

Emacs has a browser built in, eww, and it's not superb at making every page readable you can hit R and it'll try to show just the content. Other browsers also have a reader view, it's pretty clear that people and developers want this kind of thing already, it just has to be updated to be user-friendly instead of webdev / corporation friendly.


Or Chrome. It's full botnet and you can't customize shit. I'll be on ESR54 forever, or hopefully somebody forks it and moves Firefox's code into a more user-friendly direction.

As always, Richard Stallman warned us.

IIRC, it's from Holla Forums around 2007 or 2008.

gitgud.io/chiru.no/chiru.no/

Yes please.

Hell if sites just started showing download links I could already do this with Icecat. Just open download would be fine at today's speeds, and if not almost every video player these days supports watching partial files.

Feature bloat. Just use a separate utility like HTTrack so you don't ever have to wait for lazy faggot browser dev to re-implement the same feature for the millionth time.

Stop, I can only get so erect!

Fuck that, extensions for core functionality is cancer. It's just a way for devs to dodge responsibility so you have to wait even longer for features to be implemented, and they suck even harder.


Extensions are like mods and DLC these days. It was meant to be optional stuff on top of a fully-fledged, complete game. But then the devs realized they can just chop half of the game up into pieces and release as DLC, and as a bonus nobody can avoid buying it since the base game (which they've already paid for) is unplayable without. And of course once the customers are taught not to expect a complete game pre-DLC, you don't even have to finish it ever. Just dangle "we'll fix it in the next DLC!" like a carrot on a stick.

Maybe what we need isn't a new browser, but a proxy which marshalls a set of processes to extract the relevant text and data from a site, bypassing the JS bullshit completely. Then it writes a temporary HTML file which any normal browser can read with just, say, the video or text of a page, intect, with no other bullshit.

Why rewrite all this garbitch from the ground up when merely gluing together a couple things will be easier and achieve the goal, which is freedom from web hell and browser prison?

Firefox still consumes 8GiB of ram on 3 tabs.

That's partially because it's running three hundred megabytes of Javascript.

dillo.org/memory.html