What’s the grammar issue?
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Qt WebEgnine.
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It said it is in alpha, let’s complain about grammar after it comes out of beta.
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Sure, a few years or so should do the trick.
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Say what was the name of that video game that famously declared in a sequence:
“All your base now belong to us.”
Far East non-native English speakers if I recall, Chinese or Japanese, which one I can’t remember.
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Zero Wing.
In the past Month there are two separate issues about Firefox.
One was its code of conduct and some changes in documentation and how mozilla will use private data.
The second was about some sidebar and usage of an intern LLM Chat Bot and how to interact.
Both is adjust able and have some configure, usage and Risk like blocking Advertises.
Its hard to recomment stuff in this world. I would prefer to share less data with systems you do not trust, kill every comfort options and use simple one instead. Like more RSS, WGET, download Videos through Script and your own Smarthome/Mobile-Botnetwork and Tor or VPNs.
The Thread Level here is, that not you - but your social Peerings will have, read and use LLMs active or passive on Devices they do not know about. Like Clouds, Windows Computers, Android Smartphones, Apple Devices, Smart TVs, Smart Watches, and some IoT Devices and Apps. Amazon Cloud is evil too - like Ring.
This is another issue. Not some Browser - because they are no mainstream any more. I do not like what Mozilla do here, and another Fox is no Option because of delayed Security Fixes… so no Icefox, Brave or Librewolf is no real option. Until they have Millions of Supporters pushing Money for Updates.
Update: I do not really need a Browser on my L5, but i like the old Forum, Threats or Mastodon Style. And between every Interface is some HTML Code. So it is important how this works. But i can be fine if i have just a Retro Terminal or an LLM that call me and interact with me through chat or Phone and Voice. Through the L5 without browser, from my Internet attached computers.
Update 2: About the Chatbox Sidebar:
- Open the url: about:config
- Confirm to be careful
- browser.ml.chat.enabled
- Toggle the value from likely default “true” to “false”
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Spelling != grammar, and some slack should be cut for dyslexia induced typos. SW developers are stereotypically poor writers, so what do you expect from a one man (with 12 kids) shop?
I would think that something as complex as a web browser from a one man shop is sufficient reason to be wary. But since it is on github, who knows how far it will eventually go?
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I do not subscribe to stereotypes nor have expectations of others. I am merely describing my surface-level observations.
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Browsers are the reminder that we are screwed. Technology is lost.
Edit: For example, at work I’m told to use Microsoft Edge, but Edge by default sends all page contents to Microsoft so that Sydney can read them.
Sent from Brave on Google Play Services on Android on Waydroid on Crimson on my Librem 5
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Sent from Gnu Icecat on my Librem 14.
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I respect your emoji. I am running the emulation of Satan on this phone, definitely. I am on my fourth battery today, running at idle to emulate the Satan. But my boss asked me to run an Android app, and I would rather to do a software emulation of Satan than to discard my phone for a phone that is itself of Satan.
NOTE: I am not well versed in religions, and used the word Satan to refer to Google above.
NOTE 2: But Brave is not the app they required of me. It’s just… everything is smooth and easier on Android than on Phosh, in a sort of evil way that sucks me in. The lag doesn’t go away but it happens at different times, causing it all to “make me want to use it.” This is consistent with the notion of Satan being seductive.
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The development does not happen on (Microsoft anti-freedom) GitHub, as far as I can tell. One more reason to appreciate the project!
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This is a mischaracterisation. I will select a browser based on my own preferences, thank you very much. Though, popularity is a consideration in choosing a browser, at least indirectly.
I was simply saying that it doesn’t seem like the Firefox user base is yet sufficiently motivated to jump ship en masse, and that makes it a bit more difficult for a successor to take over. If an exodus does occur, there will be a large number of people looking for a new browser to replace what they’ve lost and I predict that this is more likely to result in one other browser gaining usage share rather than several.
Like it or not, popular browser engines get more attention from web developers and, with it, better compatibility. When standards are essentially being defined in a de-facto manner by the dominant browser, uninfluential competing projects will continually be playing catch up in terms of implementing them. The Web is ultimately about connecting with other people; the people who publish on the Web; so other people’s technology choices have an impact on your ability to participate.
I used Konqueror as my main browser for a while in the late 2000s. It was fairly usable. That was a good period of opportunity for “alternative” browsers. Internet Explorer had stagnated, allowing its quirks to be well-emulated by competitors, while Web standards were both in vogue and fairly slow moving. Important dynamic features of websites were largely server-side rather than client-side. But then everything sped up. Safari, Chrome and smartphones. New versions of Internet Explorer. HTML5. Fast JavaScript engines, more complex web apps with features that would have previously been implemented in Adobe Flash. More and more non-optional client-side JavaScript, even on basic things like blogs and search engines. The rise and rise of CDNs and third party hosted libraries and Web services, composed together client-side from a bewilderingly long list of different domain names. Konqueror didn’t keep up with the pace of change and I was forced to abandon it because it gradually became less and less usable as the Web evolved. (It also lacked the extensions that Firefox had, but it was compatibility that pushed me away first.)
A browser needs a critical mass of users to either act as a funding source to pay for development and maintenance, or to act as a pool of volunteer developers, or both. It’s possible to build a browser “on the cheap” by using components published by another browser, without creating a fork. But this sacrifices independence. A browser can force the hand of its dependent derivatives by changing things in ways they do not have the resources to undo.
For an Android browser, have you tried Fennec? It’s a bit less Googly, I think. Not that I want to encourage your dirty habit! 
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Mullvad browser doesn’t currently support aarch64/ARM64
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I must have created a false memory when I was clicking on your links. No sign of github anywhere when I look now. Still, he does look willing to work with collaborators.
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That’s not a grammar issue and, despite the typo, the link does actually work, which is the main thing.
I take it that you run this browser on a desktop / laptop. As a thought experiment, or an actual experiment, how well does it work on an x86 with touch capability e.g. Librem 11? … because touch should be a consideration when porting to Librem 5. Convergence (and automatic adaptation) would also be a consideration.
On desktop / laptop, how many web sites work with the default settings? Work completely? Work with degraded functionality? (Does, for example, this forum work with the default settings?)
I’m a big fan of Purism giving Librem 5 users the choice of what browser to use but I think someone outside of Purism is going to have to investigate how well this browser builds for Librem 5, whether it runs on Librem 5, and, if there are problems, whether they are easily fixable.
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Thank you for noticing this - didn’t know!
So basically can only be used on x86/AMD64 laptops and desktops for now, right?
This would be the same for Tor browser, then?
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Yes, except Tor Browser for Android.
Isn’t that a contradiction in terms though? 
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