RIP Internet Explorer

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Looks like the Supreme Court is finally enforcing United States v. Microsoft Corp. after about 21 years, but at least they're getting it enforced too bad microsoft still owns a closed-curtains monopoly with their edge browser
 
Kiwi & Cow said:
what if Microsoft just made Internet Explorer open source?
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Even if they wanted to, they licensed some of the original code from SpyGlass, which later became OpenTV, and god only knows who owns those assets nowadays*. I doubt anyone at Microsoft would suggest that if it meant they had to deal with getting legal to clear everything with whatever remains of OpenTV.

* but let's just say that back when OpenTV was an actual going concern, it was part owned by Sun. So if that hasn't changed, it's now owned by Larry Ellison's Oracle. So yeah that ain't happening
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Once Opera switched from Presto to Blink, it was all ogre.
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you can still use Vivaldi which is reincarnated Opera. Even the end user experience is just like with old Opera- every other site will do something incorrectly and yuo have to use different browser to render it correctly. Or an update will break something making it unusable till the next update. But you have 100 additional things tacked onto it, and it gives yuo the ability to be smug about using a browser noone else uses, like a true connesseur
 
potato fan said:
you can still use Vivaldi which is reincarnated Opera. Even the end user experience is just like with old Opera- every other site will do something incorrectly and yuo have to use different browser to render it correctly. Or an update will break something making it unusable till the next update. But you have 100 additional things tacked onto it, and it gives yuo the ability to be smug about using a browser noone else uses, like a true connesseur
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Vivaldi uses the Blink rendering engine, just like Chrome and Edge, which is something graybeard autists will complain about. Opera v12 used its own Presto engine.
 
Kiwi & Cow said:
I'd recommend Brave or Waterfox if you want speed, but if you want to compile chromium each update you do you.
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Holy Shit. Is chromium really not packaged for people? I'm alright with Brave but I'd at least like to have the option
 
bashe said:
Holy Shit. Is chromium really not packaged for people? I'm alright with Brave but I'd at least like to have the option
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Yes, Chromium is NOT packaged for people. We shall RISE UP and have Chromium packaged FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE
 
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