• onepinksheep@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    The misuse of this meme is one of my biggest meme pet peeves. Have people forgotten that in that scene, his vision is clear when he’s not wearing glasses? So the meme should be the other way around.

    • Synapse@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Like many memes, this one exists outside of the original oeuvre (movie, painting, etc). For instance, I have not see the movie it comes from, it wouldn’t makes sense to me if it was the other way around.

    • aMalayali@beehaw.org
      0·
      1 year ago

      meme should be the other way around.

      The imgflipreference at the bottom left is there to remind us that the image should be flipped.

  • danielton@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, my biggest fear if Apple ever allows other browser engines on iOS is that developers will stop testing on anything other than Chrome. And they will tell iPhone users to “just download Chrome.”

    I’ve already heard so many places tell people not to use Firefox or Safari to access their website. It’s IE 6 all over again. I hate Chrome and refuse to use it.

    • thehatfox@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, it’s a sad state of affairs that Apple’s restrictions on iOS and iPadOS browsers are the only thing stopping an effective Google monopoly over web browsers. Ideally Firefox would still keep things in balance, but Mozilla doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing these days in terms of building market share - and I say that as a long time Firefox user.

      I still remember the IE 6 era, and I hope we never see a single browser dominate the web again. To those wishing Apple would be forced to open up, be careful what you wish for.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Firefox is in a pickle, because unlike the IE/Firefox, where FF was winning share by the boatload against a stagnant competitor, Chrome is super actively developed, active and heavily pushed by Google. Basically FF is now kept alive by Google the way you’d keep a single competitor city alive in Civilization to ensure you game wouldn’t end with a military/domination victory. FF is a Native American reservation surrounded by white folks not giving a shit about what happens on your dust bowl.

        But yes, FF for life for me!

        • danielton@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Sure, it’s open-source, but Google essentially controls it. That is literally why they forked WebKit. And websites are starting to rely on Chromium’s quirks. Firefox and Safari will have to choose between following standards or Google’s quirks. Not ideal at all.

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
    4·
    1 year ago

    I hate chromium.

    It acts like chrome because IT IS CHROME!!! Minus the obvious branding and proprietary “Google-y bits” Unfortunately it’s the same codebase.

    At least Firefox at it’s core truly differs.

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      The only reason Chromium exists is because Google is bound by the original license when they bought it, which is copyleft. So they have to release an open source version, which is Chromium. Google Chrome is their flagship product and is proprietary and hence is the one that bears the Google branding and colours.

      • Hypx@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        From what I understand, Gecko was a terrible engine from the get-go. It is also difficult to work with, and had a lot of idiosyncrasies that made hard to build anything that isn’t just a clone of Firefox. There’s a reason why Apple used KHTML as the basis of Safari and not Gecko. Even Brave is based off of Chromium, and the founder of Brave is one of Mozilla’s founders!

        So apparently no, Gecko is not it. We need something closer to a pure browser engine that is open source.

        • ⚡⚡⚡@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Manifest v3 and the weird personality-based advertisment-helping cookie alternative are stuff that Linux would never implement. Google uses it to push their agenda to make more money. That’s not what Linux is doing.

      • BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        When that source, open or otherwise, is unilaterally controlled by Google, that doesn’t really mean much

        • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
          0·
          1 year ago

          No, it’s not. It’s open source and can be modified from Google’s baseline to be free of their restrictions by anyone who cares to put in the work, like Brave and Vivaldi.

          • buzzbald@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Are people able to make meaningful contributions to the project upstream to steer the direction of the web as an open platform?

  • GenBlob@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Nothing is worse than seeing chromium-based browser users fight other chromium-based browser users. You are all using the same fucking thing!

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      “It’s funny to see people who use cars with V-8’s argue about other models and makes of cars with V-8’s, you’re all using the same fucking thing!”

      See how absolutely stupid as fuck that sounds? Cause all cars are different even though they use virtual identical model of engines? That’s what you sound like.