{"id":2710,"date":"2018-12-07T16:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:49:55","slug":"browser-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/12\/browser-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser history"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started with Netscape because in 98, fuck Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Then Netscape Navigator was unstable. So, some IE, which was just a bit less unstable. The web itself wasn\u2019t really stable at that time.<\/p>\n

Then AvantBrowser. It\u2019s 2000-ish. TABS. POP-UP BLOCKER. TYPE IN THE ADDRESS BAR TO SEARCH. That was the shit. The biggest browser innovation jump ever.<\/p>\n

Then a bit of Opera. Cute. Then all geeks and nerds couldn\u2019t STFU about Firefox. So I tried it. It was alright, except that there were barely any extensions that I was using quite heavily at that time. Then I super-customized my Firefox and it was pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Then it auto-updated to Firefox 2, destroying all my settings and preferences. Uncool. Uninstall. I don\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

So I switched to Maxthon. Holy shit that was dope. I know, it ran on IE engine but I\u2019ve never cared about Acid3 tests and all that useless shit. Does the browser work with the websites I use? If yes, it\u2019s enough for me and a vast majority of users.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, I started to use RSS heavily, unloading my browser\u2019s needs. Maxthon was perfect with the flat theme I applied to it. I used it for years. Stable as hell.<\/p>\n

Then it updated to Maxthon 2 and it was unstable as fuck. Extensions were def a problem so I stopped using them all together.<\/p>\n

Time for Chrome! I was mad in love with it. I still remember it was September 2008. Reading the comic<\/a> about javascript on my netbook, grabbing my dick. \u201cGoogle is really listening and smart!\u201d<\/em> I said to myself, fapping. The trade-off of giving them my browsing history and behavior wasn\u2019t so bad because I was RSSing a lot.<\/p>\n

But it grew on me. While everyone was selling the browser to their grandma, I couldn\u2019t let Google spy on me like that. So I started to use the Chromium forks. One was called ChromePlus and it was pretty dope.<\/p>\n

Then it updated to ChromePlus 2 and it was terrible.<\/p>\n

By that time it\u2019s 2012 and I\u2019m sick of all that browser bullshit. Win8 comes out. I start using IE11 without excitement and pretty much never looked back. I still use IE11 most of the time. I don\u2019t care. The funniest thing is that sometimes \u2013once a year- a website doesn\u2019t work and I suppose that it\u2019s because of IE. It\u2019s not. It just does the same thing in Vivaldi or Chrome or whatever. I read this year that Safari still had issues displaying favicons and I wanted to let y\u2019all know that this shit has been solved on most Windows browsers circa 2002-2003.<\/p>\n

The amount of energy spent on those stupid ass browser battles is staggering. It\u2019s hard to take software developers seriously sometimes. Web developers failed at making HTML5 a true, clean standard. Google took over and made everything not chrome-compliant, \u201cbad\u201d. You guys completely failed the public by letting one company do the thing that you didn\u2019t want the other company to do. And now you\u2019re crying about monoculture and shit. But here\u2019s a truth: there\u2019s pretty much no need for browser innovation anymore! They\u2019re all fast. They\u2019re all stable. They\u2019re all able to handle forms, payment systems. That\u2019s what we mostly do with browsers and there\u2019s no need to reinvent the wheel again. I don\u2019t need my browser to access some VR rig, run some sophisticated synth or stream 8K videos. Jesus. Code for other stuff that might help people, think native and offline. Leave the browser alone. We\u2019re good. Browsers have achieved the Fridge status: they just work, everyone uses one, they all behave the same and no one cares about brands and \u201cmind share\u201d and all that high school shit. Working IT in a public space demonstrated that to me.<\/p>\n

Browsers are everything and nothing at the same time. They\u2019re incredibly complex pieces of software that are doing far too many things, like tracking every single thing we do (mouse cursor and all) or accessing your microphone. I just love me some vanilla HTML that renders instantly<\/em> with today\u2019s available bandwidth and any 2010 and above browser. Straight. To. The. Point. I\u2019m never over a dozen tabs. The whole 70+ tabs nerdcore absurdity was my daily life back in 2005. It\u2019s pretty clear that it\u2019s not healthy for either brain or computer system.<\/p>\n

I guess that sells multi-core CPUs though. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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