Browsers are bloat.
-- average Arch userAs an arch user, I’m confused… Doesn’t everyone use curl as their browser?
I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.
also cuter
Not related to Arch, but behold Richard Stallmann describing how he uses the internet: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html (see section “How I use the internet” and the other section below that with the same title).
I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.
Fuck. What the hell.
I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that plus Tor plus LibreJS is enough to prevent my browsing from being associated with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.
Ironically I think this makes his the most unique fingerprint in the whole internet.
In fact, what I use is Maté (an English way of writing the Spanish word Mate).
As a Spanish speaker I’d just like to say
A: wtf is this even supposed to mean?
B: mate and maté are two entirely different words.
C: The mate desktop environment is named after hierba mate, no é.
Imagine not enjoying the internet via curl
OS ships with a browser.
Boo!
OS ships with a browser.
Yay!
It’s not “shipping with a browser” that was ever the problem.
your OS ships with a browser.
Boo!
my OS ships with a browser.
Yay!
One of those is a good browser.
But edge is chrome.
As a former edge user. I now use Firefox.
why do windows users install chrome?
i don’t get it, edge comes preinstalled on windows and it’s chromium-based.
If you’re gonna go though the trouble of installing a browser, why switch Microsoft for Google? They’re both evil and Edge actually performs significantly better than Chrome somehow (they’re basically the same I don’t get it).
Install freaking Firefox.
If you’re gonna go though the trouble of installing a browser, why switch Microsoft for Google?
Exactly I don’t get it, the only explanation I can think of is that they have Chrome on their phone and want to sync it or something?
It’s just momentum. Chrome was THE advised browser for a long time and people are just used to it.
You install something that at the core is the same as you but with a better interface.
It’s funny how Microsoft just gave up on creating a new web browser and instead just rebranded someone else’s homework.
It’s what they do best, but it usually involves buying a company.
