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1. macic · 1789635485 · focus · HN ↗

   The Hurd of browser engines

   1. flossly · 1789636813 · focus · HN ↗

      I remember waiting on the Mozilla project to deliver something that could browse as well on linux as closed source browsers on windows/mac did.

      It... took... long...

      But there it was. And it still works.

      1. embedding-shape · 1789637900 · focus · HN ↗

         Was this recent? Because Firefox were the browser that worked better than all the rest, for quite many years, maybe 2005-2010, and Firefox had no competition basically until Chrome arrived on the scene.

         Just the fact that Firefox got browser tabs before anyone else, and Firebug, just took it to another level compared to all the other browsers available at the time.

         1. lukan · 1789638702 · focus · HN ↗

            Firefox was bad on linux for a long time. Even running the windows ff build via wine/proton got you better performance than the "native" build (I think that was around 10 years ago).

            1. le-mark · 1789643711 · focus · HN ↗

               Much longer than 10 years! I’ve been on Linux since 2008 an it was never a problem.

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