I consciously accept the reality that it is virtually impossible to build a new web browser due to the scale of historical baggage and standards politicking that affect the web today, but deep down inside I’m still surprised there aren’t more vibrant alt-browser projects. It must be one of the highest impact things we (oss devs) could work on.
@acowley it was basically over when Opera packed it in and became a Chromium clone
@elfprince13 I use Safari and Firefox 99.9% of the time, so I don’t think it’s over yet. Opera giving up was evidence that you can’t easily make money from a browser, but I think/hope/want to believe a web browser could be a foundational common good type thing like Linux.
