[grishka]

> What would HN folk love in a browser?

A setting to completely disable support for media elements per-origin would be nice. Not this "we try to determine whether a video is eligible for autoplaying" bullshit. I want an "I wasn't asking" approach of the browser literally treating <video> and <audio> as unknown tags when this setting is off.

Native support for Flash via Ruffle would also be nice.

If it's a mobile browser, I really, REALLY want a setting to just completely annihilate all the PWA stuff. No, I don't want to add this random news website to my home screen, thank you very much.

More broadly, I want most of the "progress" of the web platform undone. Sure, new CSS features, like flexbox and grid, are nice. But all those new JS APIs that (try to) turn a hypertext document viewer into a (terrible) operating system? No thanks. I want my clear boundary between the "document" and the "application" back, hence the Flash thing.

[usrusr]

Something less annoying to opt into web features would really be an improvement. Perhaps some "upgrade icon" next to that https lock icon? This already is the place were we take away the permission when we accidentally allowed some we did not want, and the "upgrade" would be somewhat parseable as all three of "upgrade to local(ish) installation", "upgrade to more site features" (push) and "allow more data upload" (location). All implicitly connected to the hostname.

[sourcegrift]

for first: firefox + umatrix, you're welcome