Well, this is forking intolerable.

#Firefox is officially #enshittified.

It turned on the horrid "sponsored shortcuts" and "sponsored stories" without me asking.

Those stories are the last dadgum thing I ever want to see. I don't want more news about USFASH.

Smeg #Mozilla. I hope Google bumps them off the money-nipple and they crash and burn.

I'm going to try #WaterFox and #LibreWolf again.

#enshittification #e14n

@rl_dane I switched to Zen Browser yesterday, I have peace

@joel

I can't with that UI. I don't know what planet that's from. XD

@rl_dane @joel
I used it for a month because it had vertical tabs and LibreWolf (appimage) kept crashing on me.
switched back to Librewolf (external debian repo) when I discovered that it already had native support for vertical tabs.

Never really used Zen's gimmicks, whatever they may have been.

Do appreciate Seamonkey for having big colorful icons, and the ability to easily fold away parts of the GUI.
Even has a Star Trek LCARS theme (mainly a TOS guy, never looked into TNG).

@moses_izumi @joel

I think I tried #SeaMonkey once when it first came out, and it was a nice blast from the past to the original Mozilla days. ;)

Haven't tried it in a long time.

Oh dang, SeaMonkey came out in 2006?!? So my nostalgia was maybe 6-7 years old at the time.

lol

GenXers like me are so completely lost in time 🤣

@rl_dane @joel
Used it between 2013-2017 or so.

Relied on its email client pretty often, because it was more servicable than the one that shipped with Windows 8-10 (had a decent GUI but centrered around POP3, would sometimes break itself and couldn't really be reconfigured from the GUI).
Might use it again if I get sick of Betterbird for whatever reason.
@rl_dane @moses_izumi @joel i keep going back to seamonkey to get those early internet feels

@paul @moses_izumi @joel

Heh, "early internet feels" for me would be #NCSA Mosaic and/or accessing the web through telnet on DOS and a 1200-baud modem. XD

@rl_dane @moses_izumi @joel back when that was around I was rocking an amiga 600 and later 1200 - airgapped (we did not have the internet)
It did have a web browser though, wish I could remember its name

@rl_dane @paul @moses_izumi @joel /me looks at his SeaMonkey profile with OverbiteFF for gopher

Does that count as "early internet feels" too?

@njsg @paul @moses_izumi @joel

I mean, "Early Internet" is entirely defined by you and your experiences. :)

I assure you Bill Joy's or Kirk McCusick's "Early Internet" experiences would be at least a decade before mine. XD

And Vint Cerf's even earlier. ;)