Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser

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8 points·tosh··7 comments

As time passes I can't help but stop caring about the browser competition. They're all garbage, anyway. And I don't even mean that as an attack on the developers. As others aptly put it, browsers have to be bloated because the Internet is bloated.

Sometimes I wonder whether obsoluted not-so-flexible protocols like Gopher will make a comeback for Internet purists who are tired of the Web's increased complexity.

The internet is bloated or the web is bloated? There’s been attempts to move to a more lightweight protocol called Gemini which seems more like Gopher.

Out of interest, what features would you remove from today's browsers?

Personally I stick with Safari on macOS and iOS and Firefox† on Linux for (a) privacy reasons, and (b) to encourage browser heterogeneity. If these choices make life more difficult for web developers… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've lived through the "Built for IE" years once already and I don't need to do so again.

† Firefox user since Phoenix 0.3.

How is it that Apple can legally require all web browsers on iOS to use their WebKit?

Legally? Where?

It's a practice that currently ongoing, and afaik there isn't a law against it, but perhaps there should be.

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