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[–] onepinksheep@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (3 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.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Kids these days, amirite...

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[–] Yadaran@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago
[–] editediting@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] electroskunk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pft you still have to read the HTML? I just stick a fiberoptic in my ass and download it rectally.

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[–] danielton@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (3 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 1 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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[–] pasci_lei@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

The strangle hold of control

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] PeefJerky@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

And much more private, and you can make it more private by hardening it!

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[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 6 points 2 years ago

Lol.

- Sent from Firefox Browser

[–] mrcarrot@lemmy.calebmharper.com 6 points 2 years ago

iOS be like: they're all safari

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like we've seen this before..

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Least we're got support for more fancy CSS properties nowdays, that's something I guess

[–] photodiode@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

And Chromium renders transparent PNGs properly. That's also something, I guess.

[–] pressanykeynow@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The biggest difference is that Chromium is an open source project.

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

or, as i call it: Spyware Safari

[–] metaltoilet@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (2 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 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Khold@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You cant escape the fake Internet points group

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Firefox is the best. There is only Firefox.

[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
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[–] GenBlob@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 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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[–] techno156@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Oops! All Chromium

[–] codenul@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Recently switched over to mull browser. Fork of the Firefox browser, works great so far. Also if you are unsure of the security of your browser, could use the website, browseraudit.com, that rates your current browsers. Runs 100+ against several tests and reports back.

[–] Hypx@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago
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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cue the chorus of lame excuses as for why people are still using Google Botnet instead of Firefox.

[–] ninetynine@lemmy.film 2 points 2 years 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 7 points 2 years ago

Netscape IS Firefox.

[–] LordChaos82@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok, so this is my setup.

Work laptop: Forced to use chrome so switched to degoogled chromium. Personal PC: Windows and Linux: Use librewolf on my personal machines. iPhone: Use Firefox on my iPhone Android: I use Bromite (Chromium based) on my Android phone.

So, it's basically using the best I could find for each job. I cannot defend either of those as the only reason I continue to use them is because I am used to the interface.

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[–] Liz@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Add www.ecosia.org to that list. Or at least their browser.

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