Re: Firefox alternatives?

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Subject	Re: Firefox alternatives?
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 02:52:30AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/12/24 10:16 am, Van Snyder wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> >> I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top of
> >> which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the web
> >> applications), is the malignant use of javascript client-side processing.
> > 
> > Shortly after it first arrived, javascript (as opposed to java) was described as "the world's best virus construction kit."

[...]

> JavaScript need not be that bad, but the web developers at fault are the ones that SHOULD NOT HAVE jobs!

It's not the devels. It's their bosses. And the bosses's customers.
And.

You don't get paid for even *counting* the number of npm packages
which get wrapped into your so-called front-end. Let alone to
understand what they purport to do. Let alone to understand what
they *actually do*.

That's how those funny vulnerabilities like event-stream [1] happen.

Cheers

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/773121/
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Re: Firefox alternatives? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-12-11 23:20 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-11 23:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2024-12-12 17:00 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-12-12 18:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-12-12 19:20 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-12-12 00:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2024-12-12 10:30 +0100

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