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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:05:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • josef

   @jk I've legitimately thought about doing that in reverse: this site is to be used in Netscape Navigator 3. Either you come in using it, or I spin up wasm-dosbox and we run it in windows 3.1, your choice

   • josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:05:58 JST josef

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     the aggravating thing about firefox isn't it being less successful or less financially viable or less technically advanced compared to its competitors or whatever. its the weird, unforced errors. inexplicable, unless google handed a couple of firefox devs a bitcoin or two and a copy of the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)

   • josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:05:58 JST josef

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     *banging a small snare drum on my lap* let's! find! the moles! *drumroll* bring! back! the! ftp! client! *ratatatatat tatatat*

   • josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:05:58 JST josef

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     the future of browsers is you can use any browser you like, so long as it includes a special quirksmode clientside polyfill plugin addon extension that handily detects whether the current site is chrome-only, and if so, boots a sandboxed chrome running in webassembly into the current tab and reloads the page inside that instead

   • josef (jk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 09:05:59 JST josef

     browsers used to let you access ftp servers. it was a thing you could count on that was useful sometimes, but at some point, it just went away. for example, chrome got rid of it a few years ago probably, which kinda sucks. anyway i thought "i bet firefox still has that, they're the Good one" so i opened firefox, and nope! not only did they also remove their ftp functionality too but the fucking "Recommended by Pocket" spam had reappeared since i last used the browser. cmon it's just embarrassing