In circa 2003-2004, it was as close to on par with browsers at the time as it would get. I think the WebKit fork did damage to the momentum. By 2008 with KDE4, the rework that split it and Dolphin into to products was basically the final nail I think, as development work effectively stopped.

The name of the paper always cracks me up

Given Chrome’s changes, this should also read: use Firefox or a non-chromium based browser, with an ad blocker.

Link to sauce: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/carney-to-rename-rest-of-great-lakes-as-lake-legal-adult-so-trump-will-never-want-to-touch-them/

At press time it’s still Lake Ontario, dipshit.

Beaverton slays

Definitely looks like a couch cover to me…

Likely old accounts are an exploit vector for hackers. That would be the only reasonable excuse. However someone in the business unit will use this as their lever to make other bad decisions.

Sounds like you want the EU to collapse like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The history of vetoes is very interesting.

$4M is nothing. That’s like 50 bloggers in western Europe, or one regional rag with no readers. Or a Twitter troll farm in Hungary with 100 totally real humans and their handlers getting rich siphoning most of it off for themselves. A literal drop in the bucket.

The US has been funding foreign media for a century at least, steering narratives. It was part of their soft power strategy. This isn’t surprising. Where people are freaking out is due to the shift in alignment.

The irony is that Chrome’s rendering engine was a fork of WebKit, which was a fork of KHTML, a free and open source rendering engine created by KDE for Konqueror. They basically took something free, used Microsoft’s “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics on it. Now KHTML is vestigial, only found in the UserAgent string.

But we could have had a truly free open source cross platform browser with Konqueror.

Best we have now is Firefox, but the bulk of Mozilla’s development funding comes from setting Google as the default search. So it is also hijackable.

I think it was still called Phoenix when I originally dropped it. Before it got renamed Firefox. Came back around last year after adblock stuff in chrome finally chased me away.

I like you

I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.

It’s been bad for a few years already but it is getting worse. A good chunk of the internet isn’t indexing anymore (places which require logins to get the content), and those that are largely exist to earn from the advertising, not to be helpful.

There’s actually an opportunity for a disruptive force here. If you can be better at search than Google, you could steal users. But duckduckgo and related are mostly trying to be old Google rather than better Google.

Same way you teach a child. Start with basic nouns and verbs and use them in context. Demonstrate and interact and repeat.

Source: have a 25 year out of date “teaching English as a second language” certificate. ;)

And we haven’t had a lot of time to evolve or adapt to our new niche either. So most of our brains and bodies are still the hunter gatherer archetypes.

Classy. Hope he helps lead the next generation :)

Cheese grater. Sorry for your insomnia.

Damn, are you me?

Technically correct. But it is still a departure burn into another sphere of influence. So you can forgive the quibble. There’s nothing else massive enough in Earth’s orbit to do a free return trajectory around. Or an orbital insertion burn into. And technically lunar orbit is still an earth orbit, but no one would ever use the word that way when in a lunar orbit.

But, yeah, technically ;)

Linux is as buggy as you want it to be. If you’re using Gentoo or Arch in production (and aren’t Valve) and are recompiling kernels cause you read a tomshardware article about a scheduler… Then yeah 😀