We are coming up the 35th anniversary of the first web browser, and we still don't know what the perfect browser is. What do we actually want from them?Originally we just had HTML, then we started added features until we could make "web apps". Currently we have three mostly compatible mature "web engines" (webkit, blink, gecko), with a few more experimental engines (servo, ladybird, flow, goanna) and countless dead ones (tasman, trident, mariner, netsurf, presto, netrunner, text browsers and more) killed by increasing javascript complexity, encryption standards and "anti bot" tech. Do we want to standardise on a unified engine or keep the market competitive?The browser user interface itself is debated but it is mostly back, forward, reload, address bar, tabs, bookmarks and menu as what is in a typical browser. And now we have a new problem to deal with, the debate whether "AI" should be part of the integrated browser experience or should it only be on web pages that we specially visit.We have the explicitly "anti-AI" browsers like Vivaldi, Waterfox, LibreWolf and Pale Moon on one side, then we have the New Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Comet and ChatGPT browser on the "pro-AI" site.As for me, I feel that Mozilla has lost the trust of the people and no longer represents what it did in the 2000s when its main competition was Internet Explorer, and now just wants to take Google's money and cash instead of being an actual browser organization anymore.The "browser debate" needs to be widely discussed, as it can influence what will happen in the next 35 years and further into the future.
>>107623473not reading all that but your premise is retarded anyway.>and we still don't know what the perfect browser is.
