• Boozilla@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Reminds me of all those “tech magazine” articles years ago saying “akshually Edge is a really good browser” after the entire Windows user base only used it to download some other browser instead.

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      1 day ago

      It was a decent browser. And an independent engine, which everyone here seems rabid for

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        9 hours ago

        There is never anything fundamentally bad about more choices, but that doesn’t mean that some of the choices are not fundamentally bad.

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          8 hours ago

          Trident was such a cooler name than WebKit, too. A rare instance of Microsoft giving something a name that was neither confusing nor lame.

          I mean, those ActiveX controls were a little… well… Trident was a cool name!