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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Firefox + fancy features

Means that it completely relies on Mozilla's development work for the actual engine.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup,

The non chromium / non Firefox browser that comes to mind is https://ladybird.org/

But that's still a few years away

[–] Statick@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Any idea what the story is behind that name? I feel like it will be off putting to some people.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why would ladybird be off putting?

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hank Hill's dog's name from

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Still not off-putting tho. laaady bird

[–] Statick@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

I am not agreeing with it, but just trying to get people to use anything other than the status quo when it comes to software/apps... If it has an odd name, they are less likely to use it.

Firefox was similar back in the mid 2000s.