I’ve seen in various threads that the current browser engines aren’t good, such as gecko and blink. The question is why? Why do we need a new one, and what’s stopping a new one being made? Is it just the fact that they’re a lot of work to make?

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    9 months ago

    ExecutiveChimp said look at the APIs. In the dark ages; yeah a browser was simpler when all it had to do was render html 1.0.
    But mosaic 1.0 does not functionally run on today’s web.

    All the things that modern browsers do; and how they run and interact with your computer; how many zero days have MS Apple and Google patched in the last year?

    security Week says there were 7 zero days as of the end of November: and I didn’t bother to look at all the other patches.

    So yeah. Hard