@enigmatico Today's browsers are application engines and effectively their own operating systems.

My view is that rather than declare a new start on the same goal, we need to change the goal.

A web browser that focuses specifically on content, rendering that to the user's interests, not the author's/publisher's, and hooking to content management tools for the user (supporting research and projects) would be a better goal.

Gemini is one such project, though I think it's a little too sparse. But it's the right general idea.

#GeminiBrowser #GeckoEngine #BlinkEngine #Webkit #Mozilla #Chromium #WebBrowsers

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@enigmatico All three major GUI browser engines (Blink, Gecko, Webkit) are already Free Software. That alone isn't sufficient protection, as dominant development effort itself can control both direction and features of browser development.

Browsers are insanely complex. Only the very largest commercial firms can affort to support development, and one of the largest (Microsoft) recently gave up.

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#WebBrowsers #Chromium #Mozilla #Webkit #BlinkEngine #GeckoEngine #GeminiBrowser