For example, Chromium uses chrome namespace while Firefox uses browser NS. FF already has something called chrome that’s older than chromium and probably conflicts with it. That’s the key difference.
Anyway, what are the worthwhile chrome addons that aren’t on FF?
I use Firefox fork as main because anything else is worse on QubesOS. Both WebKit and Chromium have scroll lags, while Librewolf is smooth almost as on bare metal. I don’t know what’s the difference on normal websites, but I can use it and there are almost no lags on it when running few VMs on 8GB RAM.
Android variant is actually shit, but it’s getting only better. It’s much faster now than 5 years ago. Hopefully they will improve it further.
So, they disabled it because it was basically equivalent to today’s share mega.nz link, download and play. Or sharing it on soundcloud or something similar. There was no bypass of anything or sharing copyrighted material through their servers, and it wasn’t even convenient. I don’t get it.
And that “all iTunes 4 users should update to 4.0.1”. Should users even care?
He says that openly at least for a year. Is it even possible to trademark a single letter name?
I wonder if he would even make it to the point where you would be able to pay somewhere/someone with his app. Hard mode: don’t search for places by accepted payment methods. With his current reputation it can be tricky. Who would even want to be banned from payments because he posted something he didn’t like on Twitter?
> Is it even possible to trademark a single letter name?
The letter by itself, maybe, but maybe not. The letter in a distinctive font, though (which is what they're doing), very likely.
Remember the purpose of trademark is consumer protection: to be able to tell that a product or service really is from who you think it is. As long as the trademark is distinctive enough in the product categories it applies to, it's allowed.
> The letter in a distinctive font, though (which is what they're doing), very likely.
But it’s not actually “X”. The symbol while obscure is called “ Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X “. Graphically the logo seems completely identical to the Unicode character. I don’t know if they can register it as a trademark it but would sure seem weird if you could that with something like “ ∫ “
Yes, you and croes have an excellent point. We'll see if someone challenges the trademark (or sues for trademark infringement). That might be interesting.
It doesn’t make sense tbh, it just causes confusion when someone is using terminal. Slashes in file names are forbidden everywhere except Mac, it needs to be changed in order to send it anywhere or use in some apps. But I think colon is used much more in names. I don’t get why did they do that.
Given the preponderance of 3 major operating systems, I'd think it's sensible for user-level applications to disallow creation of filenames that would cause problems on any of them. Except arguably that could even include using spaces or periods... obviously in an ideal world such restrictions wouldn't exist, but I'm not sure how to realistically push for such a world. E.g. my suggestion would be to reserve non-printable characters (below Ascii 32) for use as separators/delimiters in as many contexts where that's workable. Obviously some sort of convention would then need to exist as to how they were displayed and typed in, and I very much doubt I'll ever see it happen, but I'm sure it would solve a lot of mis-parsing bugs that show up with frustrating regularity.
I see your point, but forbidding slashes, the weird Windows reserved names, maintaining case insensitivity (also Windows), and forbidding colons doesn't seem like the craziest restrictions on file names. It can definitely get out of hand, though, if you start excluding too much stuff. IIRC, Azure doesn't even allow slashes in storage account names which greatly limits naming schemes and goes too far in my opinion.
Slashes are used in paths, so most programs that aren’t Mac-exclusive would use them to build a path to file. To make it work properly in cross-platform programs you’d need to write platform-specific code to handle that. It just adds complexity and possible errors. Even system terminal doesn’t display it as slash and it doesn’t work if you write slashes.
For users of other platforms (at least 90% of desktop market) it would just display as slashes. Just not implementing this workaround would make it predictable when moving and using files.
Good luck implementing standards that are longer than Bible and still evolving. It’s too hard even for MS, but Indians will for sure do that.
Wonder when will someone come up with capabilities of at least Netsurf or Ladybird browsers. But if they will succeed and it will be open source, why not?
TFA calls it "indigenous" which is very woke of them, but if I understand correctly, Indians regard IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate. I can see this starting and ending as a fork of Chromium or Firefox.
> IP and copyright as an invitation to copy and duplicate
This is rather condescending take considering that all of the web standards were set and adopted in US for the rest of the world..has any country other than us created a major brand new browser from scratch? Even most of major us based browsers are rip offs of each other, except maybe netscape —which isnt major anymore. IE based on spyglass, mozilla on netscape, brave and edge on chromium.. which itself uses modified webkit, which came from open source KHTML … ‘invitation to copy and duplicate’ seems to be the norm here, no?
Reading the announcement it seems their biggest concern is privacy/security from a NS perspective by using Indian SSL key servers instead of ones from other countries, not actually the engineering task of implementing every browser standard from scratch, plus other nicety features like signing documents within the browser.
At this point in time I think a large heavily funded government project is the only way we are going to end up with a fourth working rendering engine but no one wants to put in the resources because a sanitized Firefox fork is usually good enough for nearly all applications that need a browser of some sort focused on privacy and security that people have already spent way too much time on to make standards compliant
Same for me. Also, did Elon fuck something up? When I look at his profile on twitter.com the posts are in random order, and on the top there are 2022 posts. When I look through nitter, it displays the latest posts.
No, it just loads indefinitely. You can access it with scribe.rip and then archive. Medium.com involves JS to load article, probably to make paywall work.
Isn’t Zeronet abandoned already? It’s decentralised network, but it probably has got a ton of security vulnerabilities because of the dependencies. It should be really running only in VM, and behind Whonix unless you want to accidentally leak the IP through some vuln.
There are forks of it, but I don’t know how trustworthy they are. It’s probably the most popular.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
For example, Chromium uses chrome namespace while Firefox uses browser NS. FF already has something called chrome that’s older than chromium and probably conflicts with it. That’s the key difference.
Anyway, what are the worthwhile chrome addons that aren’t on FF?