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There's a new browser in town: Nyxt. It is free software. It is intended to be modified by the user, perhaps even rewritten. From https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/:
Built-in programmability.
Use the built-in REPL to program Nyxt. Run short scripts, and try out new workflows. Everything in Nyxt is fully extensible and modifiable.
It is written in Common Lisp.
Is this the browser we programmers have been waiting for? The one we can modify to our wildest dreams?
[Ed's comment: The linked source is obviously intended to show a potential user how it will work, and in this role it does a reasonable job. But there is not a great deal to explain why they think it is a game changer, or why it will appeal to many users. If it is necessary to use Lisp to extend the browser then perhaps it will not have the impact that they seem to believe it will have. But what do you think? Will it gain a foothold, or simply fade away to be forgotten except perhaps for a few enthusiasts?]
(Score: 2) by quietus on Friday March 01 2024, @09:17AM (5 children)
... what do you think are the features a new browser should have, to push Chrome from its throne?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Friday March 01 2024, @03:26PM (3 children)
I would hope privacy, but sadly I don't think most people care. Even if they do care, they can't seem to connect with the specifics of how to be more secure. Convenience always seems to win those battles.
(Score: 2) by quietus on Friday March 01 2024, @05:00PM (2 children)
With regards to privacy, I wonder about a browser which auto-creates fake history profiles. Would it be possible to automatically strip a cookie down to its essentials i.e. only the ID needed for session management?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Friday March 01 2024, @07:01PM (1 child)
Probably due to EU privacy requirements (thank you!) I've been noticing more and more websites giving options for cookie management. Most will set a bunch of "necessary" cookies. I've come across a few that let you block all cookies, and checking browser cookies, I don't find any for those sites.
Many sites think they're being clever using a . (dot) prefix, like that'll hide the cookie? I dunno, I wipe them all regularly.
Way back in the 90s when I first started browsing, running Linux, the cookies folder was a 'ln -s' to /dev/null. Of course as time has marched forward, most websites have devolved into requiring some amount of cookie storage.
I like your fake history profile thing. I'm a huge advocate of disinformation. Fill their coffers with garbage!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday March 02 2024, @03:55AM
When "hidden" bits started showing up on file systems, my favorite utility to use (or write, it's not hard) is one that does a summary listing of all hidden files in the system. It's really fun hitting one button and seeing all the stuff that the designers never wanted you to see in a nice easy to read short list.
Real security is done by obscurity. If you must store secrets on the hard drive, keep them in a file named: thumbs.db in an average looking folder somewhere. Bonus points if you encode the secrets steganographically.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday March 02 2024, @03:03AM
about $1bil in marketing and ideally a tie-in deal with an OS