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segphault ◴[] No.44064599[source]
I was a user for so long that I was on it before it even rebranded as Pocket. I finally gave up on it last year, mostly due to frustration with the terrible 2023 redesign of the mobile app. When Mozilla made the unfathomable decision to become an internet advertising company, I figured it was just a matter of time before they had to put Pocket out to pasture. A product that's designed to strip ads from content for readability doesn't align with their new direction.

I'd probably be applauding the decision to shut this down if I thought they were doing it to free up resources to increase their focus on the browser, but Mozilla seems to be institutionally committed to chasing its own demise, so I'm sure they will instead focus on AI integration and other stuff that nobody asked for.

Meanwhile, Firefox is still missing proper support for a bunch of modern web features like view transitions and CSS anchor points that are available in every other browser.

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somethingor ◴[] No.44065070[source]
> every other browser

You can just say Chromium

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zymhan ◴[] No.44065210[source]
Safari exists, and is quite popular.
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thayne ◴[] No.44065243[source]
Safari only exist on Apple devices, and generally had even less features than Firefox.
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skrtskrt ◴[] No.44065331[source]
Kagi is starting to build their Orion browser which is WebKit-based for Linux as of this year. I never do anything close enough to the browser engine to know, but apparently devs like WebKit a lot?
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toyg ◴[] No.44066560{3}[source]
Devs like WebKit because it's easy to integrate in non-browsers.
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skrtskrt ◴[] No.44066930{4}[source]
Like for desktop apps? I guess this differs fundamentally from Chromium in that... you do not run the "entire" browser like in Electron?
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1. fkfyshroglk ◴[] No.44069582{5}[source]
I thought that electron == chrome