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by tolciho 1253 days ago
Where is the button to enable JavaScript? For reasons of simplicity, resource use, and security JavaScript should be disabled by default. But there ain't that button, it's complicated.

Where is the security? Chrome last I checked had eight actively exploited zero-days last year, which is laughably bad compared to the other operating system I use. Perhaps if the modern web was simpler, a browser would be easier to implement, and more time could be spent on making it not a raging security dumpster fire? But it ain't, it's complicated.

How does one even setup user agent stylesheets? What could that be but yet more complexity? Meanwhile, I'll use w3m and amfora and if it's a broken page that mandates Flash, JavaScript, whatever, I most likely won't bother launching a "heavyweight champion" browser. The CPU fans will last longer that way.