[dstaley]

This seems like another attempt to acquire a new revenue stream for Mozilla. I'm glad it's through something like providing a user-focused VPN as opposed to increased ads and tracking, but I still feel a bit bummed that Mozilla feels the need to do this.

The other day I came to the realization that Firefox is the only portal to the web that's not affiliated with a tech giant. Microsoft has Edge, Google has Chrome, and Apple has Safari. It's so strange that the web is such a huge, important part of our lives, and we only have four ways[1] to access it, three of which are driven by profit-seeking organizations.

[1] I'm not counting forks since those are largely still the same as the original code base, and none of them have gained a significant amount of traction. I'm also not counting experimental browsers since I'm not aware of any that are both largely-compatible with current web platform features and not based on a fork of one of the primary browser engines.

[Skunkleton]

Just to be a pain in the ass, I fired up elinks to type this response.

[Fnoord]

Just to be a pain in the ass, ELinks has known vulnerabilities. The last stable release was from 2009, and the last pre-release from 2012 [1]. At the very, very least it has vulnerabilities in SpiderMonkey.

If you need a console browser with picture, JS, color, and table support, consider Browsh [2] instead: "Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL."

[1] http://www.elinks.cz/

[2] https://www.brow.sh/

[Skunkleton]

You are a pain in the ass! Thanks. I will look at updating my text-based browsing habits :)

Edit: I've been snookered! This is just a text rendering front end for firefox. This invalidates the point I was trying to make. I am sad now.