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Throw on top of it the architecture of plugins (no sandboxing!) and the culture this has developed for websites being "built" with a combination of 50+ outdated plugins and it frankly becomes a nightmare. Of course this can occur with any huge software project, so I somewhat concede this point.
The real turning point for me was the push to move to the "block" editor and effectively turn WordPress into Wix or Squarespace or whatever
I think one of the bad things about getting older that people don't seem to discuss is the increase in death of both those you know or those you know of.
Install kiwi on Android for extension enabled Chromium.
Prefab doesn't solve that one hundred percent, but I assume it would significantly increase build speed and predictions of completion date.
What an embarrassment.
Bring on bing I suppose
I'm not sure if these issues are because I don't use it very frequently, but every time I start it up:
* CPU gets eaten alive by telemetry related services for minutes at a time.
* A barrage of updates I didn't ask for get forced on me (Despite whatever settings I put)
* Anti malware tools cause system to be I/O bound for about a minute
Longer term observations
* The disk usage goes up and up and up, even though I'm putting no data on to it
* I keep getting nagged to use a Microsoft account to sign in
* The default internet browser gets reset to Edge
* Some older applications just stop working for no reason, only to start working again weeks later.
On the plus side, Visual Studio seems to be much improved from what it used to be.
Also, the cussing is disgustingly unprofessional. Not funny. Not cool.
The precedent of accepted censorship was set and accepted. Deal with it.
This site would be 9% faster with Modern JavaScript. Currently, this site ships 25kb of Javascript (uncompressed).
Switching to modern JS would reduce that to 22kb, while still supporting 95% of browsers
Lawns are very obviously the least of society's concerns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...
Mozilla _used_ to be about open internet and security, but that's just a false pretense at this point [3][4].
I believe it's time to embrace Chromium / Blink, throw away the idea of internet freedom and just use the best performing browser of the week.
[0] https://thenextweb.com/insights/2020/08/11/mozilla-firefox-l...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
[2] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/03/firefox-update-face...
[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
[4] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...
I'm not talking about gluing stuff together with scripts - I mean a large project operating wholly under it