Li ho scaricati, ma Edge mi impedisce, attraverso un pop-up, di aprire il loro pacchetto di installazione.
Sono entrato su Microsoft Store ed ho scaricato un browser "verificato" per Windows. Sto provando #Orions e #FireFly.
Si los intendo un'àtera borta, est sa sigunda.
Ma questo impedimento, non sarebbe una pratica vietata?
When it comes to #FLOSS, I have always considered myself a pragmatist, making an effort to use FLOSS software as far as possible, but always taking into consideration proprietary software when it made sense.
One of the few pieces of non-FLOSS software I used to enjoy was the #OperaBrowser.
I stopped upgrading my #OperaBrowser installation at the last #Presto version, as switching to #Blink, whatever the motivation, completely defeated one of the main reasons to even use Opera in the first place. Still, I kept using it as my primary browser for as long as it was securely possible, ultimately switching to #Firefox when I couldn't anymore.
Now, every time I read news about the “new” #OperaBrowser I get confirmation that my choice was the right one, but it still pains me that I had to make it —and I was just a user, I can't imagine how the founders feel about it (I know at least one of them is here, but I'll avoid pinging them out of courtesy).
And still, I am not really satisfied with my choice, given @mozilla's reticence in supporting #openWeb and #indieWeb standards —even ones they used to support (like #RSS).
Dear #Opera and #Vivaldi browser people, how do you feel about getting classical music posts in your feed? Or do you use but not follow the hashtags? Would you consider using a different one like #OperaBrowser ?
I'd love a way to filter out the Opera browser posts but haven't been able to find a useful filter which isn't unhelpfully broad (like the word browser; sometimes info comes through which is useful like Firefox's cookie jar thing).
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
With the modern #OperaBrowser now just a derelict ghost of its past self, hooked into proprietary initiatives (think of its Messenger for closed silo networks) and cryptocurrency shilling, some of its legacy is now being carried by another Chromium skin/fork: @Vivaldi
Although I do not appreciate it being partially closed source, or its reliance on Blink (that for example precludes #JpegXL), it does seem to be still interested in keeping the spirit of the “swiss army knife of the (open) web”.
Microsoft had reasons for this: at first it was because they didn't “get” the Internet, later on it was because it's the only way they had to (attempt to) control it. They did all they could to cripple it: remember when #OperaSoftware released a “Bork” edition of their of the #OperaBrowser in response to #Microsoft serving them intentionally broken CSS? https://press.opera.com/2003/02/14/opera-releases-bork-edition/
Now imagine what the Internet would have been like if Opera, @mozilla and few others hadn't held their ground.