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- memes@sopuli.xyz
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- memes@sopuli.xyz
Also, fuck xfinity and their BS. Can’t even change wifi password without downloading an app.
- localhorst ( @localhorst@feddit.de ) 74•1 year ago
Fuck Chrome-Remixes, all my homies use Firefox to defend the free web!
- 257m ( @257m@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
And if you want to take the extra step use Librewolf
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
Firefox and Netscape superiority
- ɐɥO ( @Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ) 54•1 year ago
pLeAsE uSe cHrOmE fOr tHe bEsT eXpErIeNcE
- jabjoe ( @jabjoe@feddit.uk ) English27•1 year ago
I’ve been using the internet since 1996. Newsgroups is about all that was good back then. Oh and email.
Chrome has become the new IE6 and Google the Microsoft of the internet.
Today is a bit of a low point, but I don’t think there was any perfect time.
Flash was a major issue during a lot of the “golden years” people are romanticizing. ActiveX was also, and still is, an issue for some parts of the world. Silverlight as well to a lesser extent
If there were any golden years, they probably were when the big three had similar market share between 2009 and 2014. But it was clear what was happening over those years, Chrome was eating IE and waning FF.
Yes apps are bad news.
- banazir ( @banazir@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
You speak correctly.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 2•1 year ago
I think people romanticize Flash because of all the fun games you could play at Newgrounds, ArmorGames etc, that’s where nostalgia hits hard. It’s easy to forget the hoards of very shitty sites that didn’t need Flash at all, but were entirely made in it because fuck you. Adobe buying Macromedia definitely didn’t help with performance or security.
- jabjoe ( @jabjoe@feddit.uk ) English2•1 year ago
I heard it rumoured it was written in 32bit x86 and was a mess. That meant porting it to ARM was basically a rewrite. There are open source rewrites. But nothing would ever play everything the same. Flash was riddled with security flaws of both format and implication. Adobe joined im killing it became it was a risk to Adobe not at an asset. Despite it’s dominance at the time.
- intelati ( @intelati@programming.dev ) 25•1 year ago
looks at IE6
Time is a flat circle
- GreenMario ( @GreenMario@lemm.ee ) 20•1 year ago
I was gonna post IE6. Internet technology was stagnated for a few years until Firefox lit a fire under everyone’s ass.
- DestroyMegacorps ( @DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml ) 17•1 year ago
Firefox defeated the ie monopoly hope it does the same to the chormium monopoly
- 11181514 ( @11181514@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
Mozilla is funded by Microsoft so they can point to it and say “we’re not a monopoly look at this other browser”. Literally the same reason apple exists. We aren’t getting an open market we’re getting bought and paid for fake competition.
- emptyfish ( @emptyfish@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
I’m skeptical that a FF with a majority market share would continue to be as user-centric as it is now. Honestly I sort of hope that a third option comes out, but FF is my go to option for now.
I’ve lost faith in Google (nod to your username) for sure - in general I miss disruption, everyone used to believe they could do it better so no one shied away from the idea of building a better browser engine or any other technology for that matter.
Google stopped making decisions in the best interest of anyone other than their shareholders a long time ago.
- conorab ( @conorab@lemmy.conorab.com ) 9•1 year ago
“You must install Real Macromedia Java Player in order to view this video, then allow ActiveX controls.”
- cheery_coffee ( @cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
but Safari is the new IE6, it doesn’t support the non-compliant Google Chrome only API I want to use and that’s tyranny!
- Rolivers ( @Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ) 16•1 year ago
Also being bombarded with SIGN IN SIGN UP MAILING LIST COOKIES etc. Modern Internet sucks.
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English12•1 year ago
I’m just going to say that, as someone who has dealt with technology for over 30 years, and has worked in, on, and with the internet for probably ~20 years, there has never been a time where every webpage ever, has worked in any one browser. IE6 was close, but that was mainly because it was either the only option, or at least the only one people knew about. There were still blowhard sites that only worked in Netscape navigator, or whatever… but the opposite was true as well, some things worked in IE that would refuse to function in Netscape/FF/opera.
Even during the supposed golden era of the past maybe ~3 years, just shortly prior to the app superiority complex of post 2020 internet, there were still sites that required IE. There were also sites that refused to function on IE… I’ve had issues getting very normal webpages to even load on any browser, but then I fire up Firefox and it works perfectly and instantly. Yet, FF has its own incompatibilities.
So the initial premise of the joke is, for all intents and purposes, invalid. There has never been a time that you could pick literally any browser, and have access to everything that’s on the internet… nevermind that being true for every browser.
It’s true that all mainstream sites worked in every browser, but that was always true… sites like that make a point of making themselves available regardless of what bad decisions you make over what browser to use. Those sites come to you, in that way (so to speak). Some sites demand you go to them, which is to say that you must operate their site in the way they want you to.
The app-ocalypse is just the latest in a long trend of getting you to meet them on their terms.
- L'unico Dee ( @lunicoDee@feddit.it ) 9•1 year ago
But they run unnecessary JavaScript Frameworks just for a page which redirects you to the download.
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
Let me introduce you to the mighty Ctrl+W.
Ctrl+W? Am I too much of a computer noob to understand?
Edit: Oh, just searched it, it closes a window? I don’t normally use shortcuts so I don’t know what most shortcuts are.
- callyral ( @callyral@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
closes a tab
- INHALE_VEGETABLES ( @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ) 2•1 year ago
It’s a bit like alt f4
- MasterNerd ( @MasterNerd@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year ago
Dude just don’t use their router. All you need is the modem
- Cyberwitch_7493 ( @Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
Plus the router usually comes with a subscription fee, whereas BYO router is a one-time payment. Ngl, some routers are expensive and if you can only afford the stock one they provide, I get it, but you’re definitely better off with your own.
- gt5 ( @gt5@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Can’t always do that. At my last place I had att fiber with an all-in-one modem/router combo. You could not opt out and use your own modem. Best you can do is use the all in one as a pass through to your own router
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•1 year ago
Apps today are just the AOL keywords of the 90s prove me wrong
- Holodeck_Moriarty ( @Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
It’s like if they were a physical location and trying to dictate what car you drive to get there. What business is it of theirs?
- ivg ( @ivg@lemmy.zip ) 4•1 year ago
As a web developer, we trying to solve your issues
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 1•1 year ago
As a web developer, we trying to
solvecome up with new ways to break what has been working since 2000FTFY. That’s the power of web development
- ThenThreeMore ( @andthenthreemore@startrek.website ) English3•1 year ago
Lol you clearly weren’t actually using the internet years ago. If you didn’t have Microsoft internet explorer and flash plugin loads of sites wouldn’t work.
- Elderos ( @Elderos@lemmings.world ) 9•1 year ago
I’ve been on the internet since the 90s and I think you’re missing the point.
- ThenThreeMore ( @andthenthreemore@startrek.website ) English3•1 year ago
The point that op is rose tinting the past when all that’s happened is we’ve moved from one evil megacorp dominating the internet to another?
I’ve been using the internet since around 2015 with both Chrome and Firefox (I switch in between frequently), I never have to install plug-ins except for like flash games, but normal sites work fine without any plugins.
- ThenThreeMore ( @andthenthreemore@startrek.website ) English5•1 year ago
Ahh. So a newbie. There was a short time which was as you described, which you seem to have started your internet journey during. Before then it was IE and plugins otherwise loads of sites wouldn’t work right, after that is now with everything claiming it needs chrome.
- gentooer ( @gentooer@programming.dev ) 5•1 year ago
Jezus, 2014-2015 was my first year at university. I feel old now.
That’s around the time I got my first phone, I feel too young to be here.
- bladewdr ( @bladewdr@infosec.pub ) 2•1 year ago
Shouldn’t use the Xfinity router anyway, that thing is fuckin garbage.
- Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 1•1 year ago
Just buy your own modem and router / access point like a normal person.
For most cases, yes, people should get their own equipment, but for me, I’m on a government subsidized internet plan and my equipment is free.
But if we no longer qualify for this in the future, then yea, we’ll get our own equipment.
- Archlinuxforever ( @Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us ) 1•1 year ago
Understandable, Xfinity’s equipment still has no valid excuse to suck.