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And making a browser that's actually financially viable enough to pay for your time and effort without pissing off your user base because of paid features is even worse.

Especially in a crowded market, where we're arguing extensively about a browser that has 2.54% of the market share. Chrome (67%), Safari (18%), Edge (5.2%) [1]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

Most of those also have a browser mostly as add-ons, bundling, ecosystem value, or trademark / brand name trojans.

Admittedly, if you're looking to make a browser, there's a lot of various prior attempts that remain in existence, yet have never really received that much attention. [2]

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline...

Personal preference is that somebody would implement a scripting language alternative other than Javascript. Anybody heard of TCL lately? It's supposed to be a browser scripting language alternative according to the w3.org specification [3] Really, almost anything other than Javascript as an alternative. Just for some variety.

[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/scripts.html




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