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ActLikeAPersoncel

Browsers are cancer.

They are full of unnecessary functions and useless animations that makes it a heavy pain in the ass.

Why waste resources on unnecessary functions when I can use them opening more tabs??

Why do they keep making them more resource hungry?? I am sick of chrome. It is too heavy!

They even made fucking apps within the browser! I was typing an address and suddenly a message on the left side says if i wanna send it to another device of mine. WHY do they keep adding annoying shit??

All I want is a browser with dark colors and basic graphics, a browser that has a good bookmark backup functionality and the ability to add ublock origin. Is it too much to ask for??

Posted Dec 22, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

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yaxamie•

Just use curl ;)

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trident765•

I especially hate the "security risk" messages because of "expired certificates" or some other bullshit. It used to be that you can click a button that says "I understand the risks" and proceed anyway, but modern browsers don't even provide this option. Fortunately, I found a way to disable these by editing about:config on Firefox, but the solution was difficult to find - the website where I found instructions that work was stormfront.org, of all places.

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ActLikeAPersoncelOP•

Exactly.

I used to like Firefox but it became as bulky and resource heavy as Chromium. So might as well use chrome.

They had a very cool software and they ruined it with unnecessary functionality.

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A_Plagiarize_Zest•

I've been thinking there's a demand for something like this. The problem is webassembly and chromium. Brave browser is pretty good comes with in built ipfs and torrent p2p(so you can go to pirate bay and download the torrent magnet link in browser and not have to use shady utorrent or BitTorrent). Its still chromium though.

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ActLikeAPersoncelOP•

comes with in built ipfs and torrent p2p(so you can go to pirate bay and download the torrent magnet link in browser and not have to use shady utorrent or BitTorrent).

Dude, this is exactly what I am complaining about. I do not want to use a browser to do other things. I want to use a browser so I can only browse.

I am a linux user, I have a pretty dope open source torrent software that I will always use.

I love specialization. I want every software to do a very good job at a specific specialized task. Image viewers for viewing images and image editors for editing images. I don't to use more ram and resources for viewing images on a program that can edit, because i am not editing anything at the moment.

lmfao you programmers love making the same bulky software that does EVERYTHING. And when a software does everything, it becomes worse at doing what initially it was intended to do.

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A_Plagiarize_Zest•

I agreed with you. I was just giving you an alternative that doesn't bitch about security shit. I use linux too, linux is complete garbage, I can't stand it. Windows was better an that aint sayin much. At least windows fucking worked. I try to do anything in python3 on ubuntu it tells me I can't because of security or permissions, my own fucking machine that I bought with my own money is trying to tell me what Im allowed to do with it(prolly my fault for picking ubuntu). Same shit with phones. The problem is automatic updates. Download an ancient version of chrome, maybe thatll work better. The security shit they claim to add was probably pointless other than extreme edge cases that some faggot hacker exploited so they can get a hacking bounty from google. Meanwhile google slips in more evil degenerate shit code that tracks more of your data and movements.

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ActLikeAPersoncelOP•

linux works just fine you just have to be patient with it so you can find a solution.

Yeah it doesn't work right out of the box sometimes because it is linux, but once you figure it out it is the perfect OS.

I have never had a problem that i couldn't solve on linux. And I am not a programmer. So using linux should be easier for you

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A_Plagiarize_Zest•

I think it has to do with ubuntu specifically, not linux in general. I still think linux is not good for the user. Its like a 20 gear mack truck built for 1970s mainframe server farms. Windows is like a minivan built for soccer moms and families. Mac is like a prius built for trendy people. TempleOS is a motorcycle built for programmers. I just want an old f150 pick-up truck built for endless utility and productivity. Nothing fancy, it lets you do what you want when you want and never holds your hand, it starts up in a microsecond, it very rarely has any problems, its built for practicality and for a SINGLE working user, not servers or hackers, not families, not trendy young people, not programmers, but men completing a task efficiently and effectively. I have a beast desktop that has all of the latest hardware, there is zero reason I should be waiting 10-20 seconds for ubuntu to boot up, there is zero reason I should need to ask permission to ubuntu to download things and manipulate my file structure, if I used windows it would still boot in 10-20 seconds(prolly longer) force never ending updates that ruin everything, but hey at least Id be able to run code without having to remember to do a chmod 777 * on the folder with the code, and at least I wouldnt have to use bash, bash is a disgusting language, I feel dirty after programming in it hahaha. TempleOS is too much freedom and Im not great at assembly and C(holyC), although everytime I crash it doesn't really matter cause it boots in a microsecond. TempleOS doesn't have networking or a browser though and its built to be a commodore64 which was marketed as a kids gaming system. Windows is infected with cortana and forced updates. Mac is infected with forced updates, and shit hardware, if I could run it on a beast desktop I would cause its more productive than the other 3, but then I gotta basically give up all my computer rights to my own computer to some corporation(corpse). The computing world needs a mixture of TempleOS and mac. Fast and productive, with alot of freedom but not too much freedom haha aka a old pickup truck.

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binarycow•

Here ya go, the browser for you.

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