Posted by tosh 5 days ago
I have said it before, everyone (Developers that use Chrome almost exclusively) says Safari is the new IE but Chrome has been slowing becoming the thing they fought against since they defeated IE.
Easy on the battery, freaking fast, low ram usage, and plugin support (ALSO on iOS, yes, uBlock on iOS). Screw firefox, screw chrome.
Yes, I also dev on Orion. The dev tools are fine.
If I go to Facebook and login in one tab, then open a second tab and go Facebook, it doesn't recognize that I have logged in. There's moments where that is annoying but most of the time it's useful.
Since then my faith in Web technologies for building UI for most apps keeps increasing.
Through pure evolution - it's the most beautiful and open platform that's most cross platform.
This web API scope creep makes it __harder__ to create and maintain truly independent web browsers.. you have to implement more and more and eventually we arrive at the current state of matters - all non-chromium engines are lagging behind.
Developers will happily use this, then users will notice websites "look better" in chrome and firefox will become even less relevant. Don't.. you can already achieve this without relying on chromium-only APIs.
No; Firefox can easily afford financially to add this feature. Firefox is already irrelevant; no developer will shed a tear about just blocking Firefox if they refuse to implement. Boycotting won't work either, because boycotts almost never work.
Did I miss anything?
It’s still not as clumsy and resource intensive (while destroying hardware like disks) like Chrome..
This saddens me, as a Firefox user, but we have Mozilla's inept management to blame for this.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...
"Privacy preserving attribution" sounds like "money preserving robbery" (or money preserving tax).