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Trying to optimise http://floppy.museum for (even) older browsers. Some of the issues I'm trying to solve include utf8-to-latin1 translation (the original HTML has some silly double- and triple-byte characters), and variations of JPEG that simply aren't understood.

Turns out Netscape 2.02 is too easy, so in this picture is IBM WebExplorer v1.1h running on OS/2 Warp Connect. Using the magic "work area" feature of folders (mark a folder as a work area to have the OS manage objects within it as a kind of unit), I can open several windows at once. True multi-process browsing 😉

#retrocomputing #browsers #floppy #museum #html #BrowserWars

If you're worried about fingerprinting above all else, vanilla Firefox is probably better than something like Arkenfox.
I'm dead serious. :blobcateyes:

Fingerprinting is one of the most counter-intuitive things in digital privacy.
In most cases the more you try to prevent it by yourself, the worse it gets. :blobcatthink:

TL;DR the best thing you can do is to use your browser like a normal person. :blobwizard:

🇮🇳 India launches competition to build a homegrown web browser
@theregister

「 An indigenous browser could be more troublesome for market leaders Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Mozilla. India's colossal population, and its ardor for local products, could propel a local browser to a user base in the hundreds of millions – perhaps even a billion 」

theregister.com/2023/08/10/ind

The Register · India launches contest to build homegrown web browserBy Simon Sharwood