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[–] glUniform4fv 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

It's been a long time since a brand new desktop browser landed on the Web.

Hahaha no. 2009, 2010, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2014

And those are just the browsers in one very specific niche that I keep an eye on.

That being said, I do welcome Vivaldi and hope that it provides an alternative for those of us put off by the past years of buzzword-motivated browser bloat in Firefox.

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[–] fasthansolo 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

If you hate the bloat in FF, I suggest IceCat maintained by the FSF.

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[–] lawofchaos 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

IceCat sounds like a definite FireFox fork, am I right? I've always used Firefox myself but I'm just not liking the direction it's going in. I'm not using a touch screen computer, I don't want a fucking touch screen computer. I can understand simplifying things and I can understand the need for something to look 'pretty' but it should also work nicely with the tools that you have to access it. FireFox has become a magnificent SeaSlug. It'll look pretty in your aquarium but it's not going to work as well as one of those sucker fish thingies.

I think it's time to find a new browser not connected to Mozilla or Google. Rant rant, rant, rant.

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[–] Danbear ago 

This part made me chuckle.

After the vicious early days when the world of Web browsers closely resembled the ruthless world of the railroad barons a century earlier, the browser market settled down to something pretty boring. First there was IE and Firefox. A few years later, Apple introduced Safari. Several years after that, Google launched Chrome.

Firefox is a bastard child of Netscape Navigator and there was a time before that.

Saying "First there was IE and Firefox" is leaving out half the story.