You know you can make a browser based on Firefox's core and don't need to make a new one from scratch that'll never get past Cloudflare?

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swed420 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> You know you can make a browser based on Firefox's core

If you want to inherit all of Firefox's flaws, I suppose.

> and don't need to make a new one from scratch that'll never get past Cloudflare?

Considering Cloudflare is a sponsor of Ladybird, something tells me they're going to grant an exception for it.

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chironjit an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sadly Cloudflare's browser detector is the main barrier to using Servo for most websites, so they're not the angel they seem

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Larrikin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What flaws exactly?

People on here love to moan about Firefox because Mozilla did one thing at some point in the existence of the company they didn't like. But then just cede the Internet to Google and chromium clones because at some point when they were a crappy junior JS dev, Chrome had some better tooling over Firebug so they just got used to testing in one browser. Maybe they also like to remember how Firefox, a decade ago, couldn't handle 1000 tab sessions.

I hope Firefox keeps up the fight but HN loves to crap all over them for not being perfect.

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tombert an hour ago | parent [-]

Can’t speak for all users, but at least as of about six months ago, there appears to be a bug in Firefox in NixOS where the shader cache doesn’t appear to be able to write properly, and as such video acceleration doesn’t work. It became most evident when I was trying to watch 360-degree videos in Immich.

Entirely possible that this is an issue specific to NixOS or my machine, but because of that issue I switched over to Brave.

I would like to go back to Firefox at some point. Maybe I’ll see if I can make a patch to fix video acceleration on NixOS.

	▲	fouc 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		the obvious thing to do is keep using firefox as your daily driver, and load up the other browser as needed for the video etc. I'm being tongue-in-cheek here because it seems most people just give up on safari/firefox if one thing doesn't work and go to some chromium-based browser as their default driver. That's sad.