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[–] onepinksheep@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he's not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.

Wouldn't this technically work either way? Like "they all are basically the same if you blur your vision a little bit"

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Like many memes, this one exists outside of the original oeuvre (movie, painting, etc). For instance, I have not see the movie it comes from, it wouldn't makes sense to me if it was the other way around.

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[–] Yadaran@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

🩷🩷🩷

[–] electroskunk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Real men telnet to the web server and manually type GET commands and read the raw HTML.

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[–] editediting@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chromium, privacy chromium, corporate chromium, spyware chromium, there’s so much diversity! /s

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[–] danielton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly, my biggest fear if Apple ever allows other browser engines on iOS is that developers will stop testing on anything other than Chrome. And they will tell iPhone users to "just download Chrome."

I've already heard so many places tell people not to use Firefox or Safari to access their website. It's IE 6 all over again. I hate Chrome and refuse to use it.

They'll pry Firefox from my cold dead hands.

[–] thehatfox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, it’s a sad state of affairs that Apple’s restrictions on iOS and iPadOS browsers are the only thing stopping an effective Google monopoly over web browsers. Ideally Firefox would still keep things in balance, but Mozilla doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing these days in terms of building market share - and I say that as a long time Firefox user.

I still remember the IE 6 era, and I hope we never see a single browser dominate the web again. To those wishing Apple would be forced to open up, be careful what you wish for.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox is in a pickle, because unlike the IE/Firefox, where FF was winning share by the boatload against a stagnant competitor, Chrome is super actively developed, active and heavily pushed by Google. Basically FF is now kept alive by Google the way you’d keep a single competitor city alive in Civilization to ensure you game wouldn’t end with a military/domination victory. FF is a Native American reservation surrounded by white folks not giving a shit about what happens on your dust bowl.

But yes, FF for life for me!

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iOS be like: they're all safari

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel like we've seen this before..

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[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, ain't this the truth. Firefox and safari are the only browsers that arent chromium based. We must protect Firefox at all coats! Without it, Google would have a monopoly on the browser space... a world I would not like to live in.

[–] z500@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part, but damn has it gotten janky since the rewrite.

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I feel you on that.

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[–] Melody@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hate chromium.

It acts like chrome because IT IS CHROME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Minus the obvious branding and proprietary "Google-y bits" Unfortunately it's the same codebase.

At least Firefox at it's core truly differs.

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[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

or, as i call it: Spyware Safari

[–] pasci_lei@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The illusion of choice.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox is the best. There is only Firefox.

[–] metaltoilet@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah... the first repost I've seen on the threadiverse thus far. I hope this doesn't become a trend.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

My colleague in Kronika, reposting on Internet forums is a tradition.

[–] GenBlob@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nothing is worse than seeing chromium-based browser users fight other chromium-based browser users. You are all using the same fucking thing!

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[–] Hypx@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

There really needs to be a "Linux" of browser engines.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] illectrility@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This... LOOKS AWESOME

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[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't that gecko, Firefox's engine?

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, Gecko was a terrible engine from the get-go. It is also difficult to work with, and had a lot of idiosyncrasies that made hard to build anything that isn't just a clone of Firefox. There's a reason why Apple used KHTML as the basis of Safari and not Gecko. Even Brave is based off of Chromium, and the founder of Brave is one of Mozilla's founders!

So apparently no, Gecko is not it. We need something closer to a pure browser engine that is open source.

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[–] Nabely@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Well, if you're on linux, there's gnome web, but, It's not very good

[–] Liontigerwings@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Is that not what Chromium is? An open source browser that anyone can adapt to suit their needs.

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[–] Ronno@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, our IT department is blocking every browser except for Chrome and Edge. It is infuriating, because out of the list, these two are my least favorite to use (putting it mildly).

[–] techno156@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oops! All Chromium

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is precisely what makes Firefox so important. It's basically the only other open and independent implementation of the web stack. If Firefox goes away then the web becomes whatever Chrome is doing just how it was in the days when IE was the only game in town.

This will also make Google the gatekeeper for the Internet, and there's a pretty big conflict with an ads company controlling how people consume content online. We've already seen how Google keeps trying to make API changes in the engine that kneecap adblockers.

Of course, people could fork Chrome into a separate project, but maintaining a fork is a herculean effort, and it would basically need the funding and infrastructure that Mozilla already has.

[–] ninetynine@lemmy.film 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bring back Netscape! Actually I would take the old Opera. That was my browser of choice prior to the chrome integration.

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Netscape IS Firefox.

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