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by kjkjadksj 760 days ago
All you have to do is keep up with web standards. Most people don't use 99% of the browsers features I'd guess. About all I need are tabs and bookmarks and a history and thats it, same stuff since netscape basically, my three features for a complete browser experience that would make me very happy. I'm sure other users feel the same.
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Some things technically not part of the core feature set of a browser (at least not the one you've mentioned), yet even just one of them missing would make me immediately drop Firefox:

- End-to-end encrypted tab, history, and bookmark sync across devices

- Content translation, as mentioned above ideally in a privacy-preserving way

- Plugin support

- Cookie-jar-per-tab and proxy-per-tab support (Firefox allows doing both through Multi-Account Containers)

I'm sure some other users also feel the same.

And I don't want or use any of those things.

It's almost like a "one size fits all" browser can't actually exist. I'm hoping for a more minimal, but excellent, browser to come around to meet the needs of the sort of user I am.

I think this is one of the adverse effects of Firefox changing how extensions work. In the Good Old Days, Firefox was a reasonably minimal browser and you could pick and choose which advanced functionality you wanted by choosing which extensions to install. But since extensions have been largely neutered now, a whole lot of that advanced functionality has to be built into the browser proper. This is fine if you want that stuff, but it's really uncomfortable if you don't.

> About all I need are tabs and bookmarks and a history and thats it

I'm impressed you don't even need a HTML renderer component and all that comes with it.