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Making the Web Boring Again

It's hard to imagine now, but in the 2000s web browsers were quite boring and didn't get updated very often. IE7 being released was a huge deal (indeed, Microsoft kept to a slower-moving schedule just as the rest of the industry was starting to pick up the pace).

I gave up and switched to Pale Moon around the time Mozilla's corporate office displayed yet another clear sign that their head is in the clouds by deciding that built-in "AI" chatbots are what its users deseperately need. Pale Moon feels like a breath of fresh air in the regard that my bug reports and pull requests don't get lost in the endless churn. Regardless, skipping on "just one more framework" in today's world is feeling more and more like an act of rebellion - slow-moving standards are a deep threat to corporate monopolies over technology.

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