Endless feature creep made browsers are the most complex programs ran by most users. I disbelieve a new browser could be made (securely, or at all). Forks are nice (I use Librewolf btw) but they do not deviate significantly. The browser market is unhealthy and unrecoverable: either it’s Google vs Firefox forever or one wins.
Perhaps the alternative to the all-in-one software solution is just to use smaller programs dedicated to each common use of the modern browser (a video player for playing video, an old style internet text-page reader for browsing text, etc).
True, but it probably won’t work. Unless the browser pulls them in as plugins and becomes modular. Most are trying to give a rich web experience out of the box and I’m not sure users will accept different programs for different things.
I really like Gemini as an idea and hope it finds it’s groove for many, but lots of mainstream users may not like it and the ad industry that people are using to fund there sites certainly won’t.
Endless feature creep made browsers are the most complex programs ran by most users. I disbelieve a new browser could be made (securely, or at all). Forks are nice (I use Librewolf btw) but they do not deviate significantly. The browser market is unhealthy and unrecoverable: either it’s Google vs Firefox forever or one wins.
Perhaps the alternative to the all-in-one software solution is just to use smaller programs dedicated to each common use of the modern browser (a video player for playing video, an old style internet text-page reader for browsing text, etc).
True, but it probably won’t work. Unless the browser pulls them in as plugins and becomes modular. Most are trying to give a rich web experience out of the box and I’m not sure users will accept different programs for different things.
I really like Gemini as an idea and hope it finds it’s groove for many, but lots of mainstream users may not like it and the ad industry that people are using to fund there sites certainly won’t.