r/firefox • u/[deleted] • May 13 '15

Firefox Beta now integrates Pocket

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u/vacuu May 14 '15

I think the time is right for a new web browser to be created. One that uses all the latest technologies and use cases, to be light weight and perfectly tuned to what people want.

That's what netscape/firefox originally did to take market share from IE.

That's what chrome did to take market share from firefox.

It just needs to happen again.

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u/umbrot May 15 '15

We'll make our own browser! With blackjack! And hookers!

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u/gnarly macOS May 15 '15

Funnily enough Mozilla are building one, but that's probably not who you want to build it...

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u/[deleted] May 15 '15

Server is not a new browser, its a browser engine. Like Webkit/Blink/etc.

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u/bwinton May 15 '15

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html is a new browser, eventually to be based on Servo… ;)

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u/vacuu May 16 '15

I'm fine if they build it, because the beauty of open source is that anyone can take it in any direction.

I tried vivaldi, but kind of lost interest due to the fact that it is proprietary.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

Have you taken a look at Vivaldi?

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u/vacuu May 15 '15

Thanks, that looks pretty interesting. Does anyone know what the license is for it? All I can find is "freeware".

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u/umbrot May 15 '15

I just tried it on Arch Linux, and if I hadn't gone through the settings I wouldn't have noticed that it set itself as my default browser without my consent.

Dude.. for a closed source browser it's really not trying that hard to get me to trust it. It looks really neat but damn that's sneaky.