Are they doing their own development or are they still mostly reliant on Mozilla? The thing with all these forks is that I doubt they’d be able to continue development if Mozilla were to disappear, since they still rely heavily on Mozilla.

I’m still sad they got rid of MSN Messenger in favour of Skype. MSN had superior video and audio quality.

I had so many international friends on MSN Messenger that I have no idea how to contact any more.

Google Voice is good. I use it to call from the USA to Australia which is only $0.01/minute and doesn’t have any monthly fees. You can see the rates here: https://voice.google.com/rates

I’ve got an Android phone and you can configure Google Voice so that it’s automatically used whenever you make an international call from your phone’s regular dialer.

Building a browser from scratch is going to cost well over a million dollars in development costs. I don’t think they’d be able to achieve it without sponsors.

Most consumer sites are optimized for chrome and even safari, firefox & Edge (Obviously) face issues with scripts and plug-ins.

This is why it’s dangerous that Chrome has such a large amount of market share. Instead of using standard features, sites are using Chrome-specific features and even relying on Chrome bugs that don’t exist in other browsers. It’s exactly the same reason Internet Explorer was bad.

The web platform is huge… It’s going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.

They recently started developing it again, after being silent for a long time. They released Amarok 3.0 in April 2024 which migrated it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

What’s the advantage over regular Firefox?

So is this really just a local AI model? Or is it something bigger? My S25 Ultra has the app but it hasn’t used any battery or data.

I see it on my S25 Ultra.

The only difference between a physical and digital copy of a video game is the format of the license key (on disc vs attached to your account). In either case, you’re buying a license key that can be revoked by the manufacturer at any time. A playable game isn’t even on the disc any more, since games aren’t finished by the master date any more (so you need to have internet access regardless of if it’s a disc or digital copy)

At least California is doing something and forcing stores to make it clearer that you’re only getting a revokable license rather than actually buying the product: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254922/california-digital-purchase-disclosure-law-ab-2426