[X] My Assistant

i have chrome, firefox and opera
all for different things, but mostly i use firefox

I certainly don't like Edge and mostly for the same reasons that I didn't like Internet Explorer. Their parent company wasn't interested in allowing the user to perform things that maybe the company wanted to prevent in order to implement the idealistic DMCA environment. For example, if the URL is at Sad Panda, but I type in the URL for regular e-hentai, FireFox, Pale Moon, etcetera, it will display the "This gallery is deleted or unavailable...." error as expected. I could then go back one webpage to the erroroneous URL and correct it by replacing the - with x. heh heh. However, EDGE will not let me do that. Nope. It won't let me go back to correct the URL.

The addons at the official Edge store also sucks a lot. Even the so-called "free" addons might have a time limit or some other crippled features that require a mandatory payment or even subscription. I don't want to subscribe to addons with annual usage fees. Edge's environment is populated with addons made by too many greedy people.

It's 2021. And I think YOU'RE BREATHTAKING. Edge says Nope, you cannot be breathtaking because every breath you take you must pay for, and you haven't paid yet.

Edge's environment is populated with addons made by too many greedy people.

You just described Mac OS (X) tweaking.

Want to set up a keybinding? Or change a folder icon? Alter scrolling acceleration rates? Make the maximize button not go into full screen when not holding alt(option)? Somebody's made a paid program that'll do it for $15. That's the real apple tax.

Even jailbroken iOS has (or had) paid tweaks everywhere (at least when I used an iDevice, years and years ago now). I remember there was one to stop the phone from turning off its WLAN radio when the screen turned off. And another to stop the phone from making a loud "DING" noise and waking up whenever it was plugged in to charge. And another to hide icons on the springboard (launcher). And all the decent file managers were paid, too. Want a decent GBA emulator around 2012? Pay up. Want a decent NES emulator around 2012? Cough up for a closed-source port of FCEUX (NES.emu). SNES emulator? THAT one was free, only because the snes9x license explicitly requires that no fee be paid for the program (FCEUX on the other hand used GPL, which allows for payments). So free SNES emulation but paid NES emulation from the same guy.

Since at the time the only other major SNES emulators worth speaking of were zsnes (uses x86 assembly) and bsnes (super demanding), there was probably just no better option there.

It was a little more understandable before the internet became widespread; the same for Amiga software. Back when physical media like floppies or CD's cost money.

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Anyway yeah paid addons are trash

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 1 2021, 15:22

chrome

Chrome on my Android, Firefox on my laptop.

Firefox, i use for some time now

I'm using Chrome cuz I have to, too many accounts saved in Google.
It responses really fast, but my RAM is under pressure lol.

Maybe FireFox is better.

ungoogled chromium

Anyway yeah paid addons are trash

Would Linux have paid addons? Is it a type of operating system that has users who would pay money for products? Since Microsoft embraced Linux in 2020 as a co-development platform for many of win10 apps, I've been wondering what will happen to the LinuX type laptops. [ostechnix.com] The Microsoft EDGE browser is finally available for Linux laptops. So. Will linux laptops grow in number with the general public when Microsoft supports them with a reasonable operating system that doesn't require users typing commands.

Image from Microsoft Azure Innovation webpage

Microsoft embraced Linux in 2020 as a co-development platform for many of win10 apps,

This disgusts me. It's classic embrace, extend, extinguish mentality.
Also since Edge is Blink-based (chromium-based) now it required approximately zero effort to build Edge for it.

I have no interest in Microsoft until it stops making and encouraging horrible software.

I have no interest in Microsoft until it stops making and encouraging horrible software.

if you view open source collaborative software development as good software then you will never like Microsoft.

if you view open source collaborative software development as good software then you will never like Microsoft.

Pretty much how it feels.
That and I'm deathly allergic to things like Electron (VS Code).
I wish Xulrunner had taken off, since it basically did what Electron does without quite as much overhead. I also wish Mozilla hadn't become less and less friendly to outside contributors. At least Gecko/Spidermonkey used to be more portable than Blink/V8 (talking specifically about 32-bit PowerPC systems here).

If not for their draconian policies regarding end users, my opinion on them would actually have softened in recent years.

The bloating of everything they make is reprehensible, though. I get the idea no one there actually cares, of if they do care, they aren't the people in control. They just tack new features of questionable value awkwardly onto their old cash cows and expect people to swallow it. Only thing I 100% think was a good idea that they've done recently is embracing UTF-8, but that was still over two decades late. And I'd imagine most software for Windows that uses UTF-8 won't be at all backward compatible with older Windows versions. Thus, a windows program I wrote in 2020 is still using tchar's everywhere so that I can be sure it'll at least usually work in older versions (though I am still uncertain if surrogates will work properly).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jan 15 2021, 08:39

Chrome for all devices ,It can play a better user experience with Google account

Firefox

edge,please

pale moon

Hell Yeah, Firefox is way more cooler and faster for me.

chrome

chrome is better but it use too much memory (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

Pale Moon.