Fighting the early signs: Iβve read in the linked article and other sources that the first websites are appearing that only work properly with #Blink-based #Chromium browsers. There are reportedly issues with #Gecko-based #Firefox derivatives. For now, it seems to be limited to CAPTCHAs.
We already had this dreadful monoculture back in the days of Internet Explorer 6. Nobody wants those days back.
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I just clicked a link in an email, after having been off for a week or so. And it opened in Edge. Which popped up a notification saying it's not my default browser, and would I like to make it my default browser?
Hell no! And if it's not my default browser, then why did it open when I clicked the link in my email? π‘
El 2 de junio de 1996, ππππ¬πππ©π creΓ³ πππ£ππ como una respuesta estratΓ©gica al avance de π΄ππππππππ en la guerra de los navegadores.
Mientras Internet Explorer comenzaba a integrarse cada vez mΓ‘s con Windows, ππππ¬πππ©π buscaba llevar su tecnologΓa mΓ‘s allΓ‘ de la PC tradicional: televisores, consolas, set-top boxes y dispositivos conectados.
#retrocomputingmx #Netscape #navio #InternetExplorer #Microsoft #browserwars #InternetHistory #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #webhistory
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116608485542574255
Yet another reason to support a diverse browser ecosystem and not simply rely on Chromium.
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