To hell. In a handbasket.
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I see a web browser like a TV screen. An I need it to do is display the internet with nothing in the way. Any attempt to add built-in "smart" features to it will make it worse. If I want something else added to it, I'll plug it in myself.
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Integrate DownThemAll, without fucking up existing installations of DownThemAll. Like how you uninstalled and blocked the Pocket plugin.
Allow blob:// videos to be saved normally. It's just a file. I'm looking at it. Move it from memory to the hard drive.
Tab Mix Plus needs to be feasible again, with multi-row tabs that aren't a hundred pixels wide. I want a grid of favicons. I don't give one solitary shit how anyone else feels about that desire.
Aggressively commit to supporting adblockers. Browsers obey the user. Servers can send documents, and we will do with them as we please.
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My guess:
- More personalized ads
- less customization
- fewer functionality
- more pay for the CEO
- development behind closed doors like AOSP
- own search engine
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Anywhere so long as they don't try to kill adblockers
Everything else the forks can work around. What's important is they don't give into manifest v3/WEI and become complicit in the death of adblockers.
In the trash along with chromium the moment servo is even slightly usable on all the sites I use.
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Further up google's ass
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