Alex Akselrod
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Tim Chambers
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Tim Chambers
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Richard MacManus
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@jwz ☝️ To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Netscape Navigator 2.0 here is my copy I bought around 1995 when it was still a paid product. I ran the browser under Windows 95.
Shortly after snapping this photo in 2017 I tossed the product in the trash, which I regret. I took the photo as I got a sense the artifact had some historical significance, but I wasn't into retrocomputing yet and didn't realize the importance of preserving such material.
Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:
@jwz ☝️ To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Netscape Navigator 2.0 here is my copy I bought around 1995 when it was still a paid product. I ran the browser under Windows 95.
Shortly after snapping this photo in 2017 I tossed the product in the trash, which I regret. I took the photo as I got a sense the artifact had some historical significance, but I wasn't into retrocomputing yet and didn't realize the importance of preserving such material.
Jonathan Schofield
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The Register covered our stand on AI. We have chosen not to include AI in the browser. Based on your feedback, you do not want it and neither do we.
#Vivaldi#Browser#AI#Linux#Microsoft#Google#Apple#Android#Ios#Technology#Politics
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on/
Tim Chambers
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Holy crap why haven't I been using the #Vivaldi #browser all along? Thanks corpse-of-the-Mozilla-foundation for pushing me away to this cool browser by this cool dude on Mastodon. And you can set up Duckduckgo as the default search engine in no-AI mode with like three clicks. Well done. Oh it's free too if you assumed it must cost money. It does not.
Holy crap why haven't I been using the #Vivaldi #browser all along? Thanks corpse-of-the-Mozilla-foundation for pushing me away to this cool browser by this cool dude on Mastodon. And you can set up Duckduckgo as the default search engine in no-AI mode with like three clicks. Well done. Oh it's free too if you assumed it must cost money. It does not.
Stefano Marinelli
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Two years ago, I started browsing with #javascript turned off by default, only enabling it (and saving this decision) when needed. With the browsers I am using, it's only 2 clicks.
A lot of insights I got from this experiment:
- most websites are still usable, minus all the annoyances
- websites that refuse to display content at all w/o JS turn out to be not worth visiting. So you have kind of a quality filter.
- browsing is many times faster
- you use the internet much more focused on the content you were actually looking for. No more distractive images, links, embedded content
- enabling JS on sites that automatically redirect you if your #browser misses JS support can be tricky
Two years ago, I started browsing with #javascript turned off by default, only enabling it (and saving this decision) when needed. With the browsers I am using, it's only 2 clicks.
A lot of insights I got from this experiment:
- most websites are still usable, minus all the annoyances
- websites that refuse to display content at all w/o JS turn out to be not worth visiting. So you have kind of a quality filter.
- browsing is many times faster
- you use the internet much more focused on the content you were actually looking for. No more distractive images, links, embedded content
- enabling JS on sites that automatically redirect you if your #browser misses JS support can be tricky
Anyone having experience with transmitting/receiving data as sound from/to mobile browsers?
What would actually work to transport some megabytes of data and be a little recillient to background noise?
The Tor Project
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Arti 1.5.0 is out! 🦀
The Rust-based Tor implementation adds new client features:
– Conflux
– Flow & congestion control
– Onion service PoW
– Bug fix for client bootstrapping 🛠️
MSRV now set to Rust 1.85.
Full changelog:
🔗 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#arti-150--28-august-2025
#Tor#Arti#Rust#RustLang#OpenSource#Privacy#Cybersecurity#Anonymity#InfoSec#Tails#Decentralization#Encryption#Networking#Onion#FOSS#RustDev#InternetFreedom#Freedom#DigitalRights#Security#CyberSecurity#Browser