As you wish, you piece of shit.

KEVIN, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

And this only just after they enabled a whole raft of add-ons in their mobile browser that have already stripped away so much shit from my daily browsing experience.

I switched last year when Google entered their new phase of ad tracker evil and I bet I wasn’t the only one. Feels to me like Firefox fucked with the money and they’re being brought to heel.

Voyager!

You’re a goddamn life saver

This is correct.

Well now I HAD to read the thread

What an absolute weirdo.

It might be getting a second wind now as an escape from Wayland/NVIDIA and death by a thousand snaps. That was why I switched a few months ago; all I wanted was to play ETS2 on my old laptop, dangit.

They are suddenly everywhere in Australia, I can tell you that much.

I was fully expecting sapnu puas, what a wholesome surprise!

oh thank christ

It got me off Chrome, at long last.

Amen, fellow Lemming. It feels good to pull away from an enshittified corporate staple and adopt something that isn’t trying to consume your soul.

I remember when Netscape was abandoned and open-sourced as Mozilla, and it was huge and bloated as slow as hell. And out of that came a project to just pull out the browser part of Mozilla and make it super fast and as portable. I remember a series of early alphas, and even the name went through a few evolutions. First it was called Phoenix, then Firebird, briefly, until they realised Firebird was taken and changed it to Firefox. It had this shiny new Gecko rendering engine and its only rival was IE…5?

When I started my first dev job in 2006, Firefox was far and away the best browser to use because it had an extension that no other browser could match: Firebug. Firebug was the precursor to the standard F12 devtools that every browser now has and it was life-changing if you were a web developer. (Try imagine doing your job without it now.)

Then Chrome arrived and it was shiny and W3C compliant (yay!) and you could pull a tab off into a separate window (wow!) and every tab ran as a separate process (neat!) and Google wouldn’t be evil for at least another decade. Back then, FF had memory leak problems and that drove a lot of us away.

And then Chrome pulled this ad surveillance shit and I was fucking out. I’m so glad that FF is still here.

I let myself be fully engulfed by the Google/Chrome/Android continuum and it’s only recently that I realised just how much of myself I gave away and, while my personal data has long since been propagated to a million servers, I’d still like to try keep some of myself to myself.

My back hurts.

I don’t even bother typing them because I like having eslint do it for me.

Hot diggity!

Aloha.

You need to make the worst product that you’re still able to sell, and then make sure you sell it to the same people multiple times.

This is a lovely summary of modern capitalism. The carnival barkers would have you still believe that excellence rises to the top, but it doesn’t. What wins is the appearance of excellence, as a facade for the least effort possible, like you said.

Share markets created this perverse incentive that rewards businesses for appearing successful even if they produce fuck all. I’m thinking of Jack Welch era GE or today’s preeminent carbon credit trading firm, Tesla Motors.

It reminds me of the feedback loop engulfing the major LLMs as they consume more and more of their own content and start outputting lower and lower quality: the original goal of rewarding the best is long lost, replaced by making line go up at all costs.

Tommy Lee Jones sure has been gettin around.

“And what did he do then?”

“Beat the shit out of me and took my lunch money, same as every other day.”