Cinny as a PWA, or Schildichat ( FOSS version )

Huawei, Xiaomi and Samsung phones

• main reason: anti user freedom, and locking you in to their system, it's extremely hard to wipe out your phone in order to sell it if you have a Samsung account linked to your phone, and they make it hard to flash a custom ROM, imagine buying a phone with your own money and you still need the manufacturer consent to do what you want with it..

• confusing and slow UI

• Ads everywhere on the UI

• bloated with games and useless apps

• they don't take security seriously at all ( slow updates )

• short update period

• they lie in their marketing by giving big numbers ( battery capacity and camera quality for example )

And last but not least, they kill your apps

I guess I'll just add them to my mental list of companies to avoid.

😆 mental ?! I already have my list in my browser bookmarks

that's a quite pessimistic stance, yes I do agree that web browsers are complexe and hard to maintain, but they can do more than viewing websites, you can play games, draw art, video chat, PDF viewing and editing, you can do a lot with just one app.. that's the beauty of Web browsers.. The problem is in the Ad business model..

saying: "no" sounds rude.. maybe something like "no, go touch grass" that'd be better

Yes, I find that is the only way to use these phones, AOSP makes them usable again, but like I said they're constantly implementing and improving their digital locks to keep you from running away to a different OS.. It's so anti user freedom

One of the best cases for building a versatile tool, is accessibility to less privileged populations, for example people who can't efford to have a reliable Internet because of their shady ISPs, they need a browser that renders web content as fast as possible, and also because they can't afford to download apps due to slow internet speeds, Flatpaks could take gigabyte of HDD space and you have to update them later, which is painful in other parts of the world

Even if the user had a reliable Internet and solid hardware, maybe they're a security minded individual, and want to keep their app installs to a minimum. To them many apps are considered bloat and that's dangerous.

I think the difficulty lies in wisely choosing what features to include, before your users start asking : hey, do we really need that ? Or : who uses that ?

that's why listening to feedback is so important

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good comments are upvoted for a reason and I wanna see those first... before scrolling to the bad takes... haha

Storyboarder ( but I haven't tried it yet ) it seems geared towards 2D animators

I want my RSS

that's interesting, I'm not sure I understand the idea, do you want the browser to monitor the mobile app time usage ( Jerboa ), I'm i correct ?

That would also look cool, aesthetically speaking

firstly, there's always some security and plenty of privacy mischief around focus.

Oh, how so?

i've actually played with this in the firefox debugger and it essentially appears feasible so really hope this feature comes oneday - or i finally get some time to look into making an addon for it

that's cool, yes a browser should stop using resources when you stop using it ( minimize it ), or using that particular tab by making it inactive, chromium based browsers behave like that if I'm not mistaken

you're so beautiful 💕🏳️‍⚧️