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Re: Firefox alternatives?

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On Wednesday 11 December 2024 05:42:41 pm Bret Busby wrote:
> On 12/12/24 06:14, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > However, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting
> > increasing memory etc.  It's a sad state of affairs we have reached
> > where simple web browsing (and it *should* be simple) requires such
> > significant resources.  Even banking should not lead to lag in window
> > management.
> > 
> 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.
> 
> If the web application developers more properly used server-side 
> processing (and, even the sinister javascript has provision for 
> server-side processing), the World Wide Web, and, under it, the 
> Internet, would operate like they should, racing along, instead of 
> operating like a pair of decrepit cripples, like they are, crippled by 
> the client-side processing.

Agreed.  I run a very sparse website (rtellason.com) and use almost no javascript whatsoever...

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ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
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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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