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Re: [LUG] Lug meet Saturday

 

On 19/04/20 19:02, comrade meowski wrote:
> On 19/04/2020 07:58, Neil wrote:
>> Thanks for all that information. My copy of Waterfox Classic also worked
>> so it would seem that that can be added to the list.  I had never
>> realised just how many browsers there are.
>
> That's a bit more nuanced than you might think as under the covers there
> are only 3 or 4 main rendering engines - the new Edge, Vivaldi, Opera,
> Brave and many others are simply wrapped around the Chrome engine
> (blink). Seamonkey and Waterfox/Palemoon _are_ Firefox (gecko). Similar
> story in Apple land where everything is webkit.
>
> There are _way_ more browsers out there than you think - literally
> hundreds - but surprisingly few differences under the hood if you know
> what you're looking at.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
> https://medium.com/@Marabyte/on-browser-monoculture-2ba7885f88e6
>
> I was going to install Palemoon/Waterfox on the throwaway Mint VM I was
> using for Julian's wifi fixes the other day just to see what you were so
> happy about but that was the *exact* moment I ran into my weird new "VMs
> have borked package manager network traffic".
>
> The more I think about it I've got to assume that the whole debacle is
> therefore somehow your fault. Your stupid browser broke my network and
> that's before I even installed it!
>
Ouch - shots fired! :P

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