What!

Spider god? That’s Gyuuki, a cow-oni youkai from Japanese myths. Specifically it’s Kazuma Kaneko’s design of Gyuuki for Shin Megami Tensei II.

Does turmeric need to be a miraculous panacea? Isn’t it enough that it’s delicious?

Rumpelstiltskin.

Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”

Why? It’s not my job to ensure Google’s documentation is correct.

They don’t have shame. If they did they wouldn’t put a geriatric man to be president, and he wouldn’t take the role.

Google has infinite money to throw at shitty projects, and the more marketshare they control the better for them since that just means more data that they can sell, so I can see that happening. I don’t think Mozilla has the same luxury. I’d sooner stick to Safari than use Chrome.

They have an entire graveyard of products and services to pull from, I don’t see how this could fail!

I noticed the other day that they still have help articles up on how to sign up for Google+

Yeah. The main reason I could think of is if you use Firefox Sync. I actually do have that on my iPad, though it’s rare that I’ll ever open something on my PC and then resume it on my iPad.

That echoes my thoughts.

Well I suppose the question really is; how many Firefox iOS/iPad OS are there in the EU and does that amount of users make it worth maintaining another 1-2 apps for the EU market, while dealing with Apple’s shenanigans? Like Firefox Browser for iOS and iPad, as well as Firefox Focus are already 2 apps, if you want to replace the back-end specifically for the EU you’d have to maintain that back-end, deal with Apple working against you, and maintain separate versions of those apps specifically for the EU.

It’s worth noting that Firefox for iOS is already leaps and bounds behind Firefox for Android in terms of UX. There are features missing that they could add regardless of whether they are using WKWebView or not, but they haven’t, either because Apple doesn’t want competition, or because they don’t consider the Firefox browser on iOS to be particularly high priority.

If the latter, why on Earth would they port Gecko to iOS/iPad OS when a vanishingly small subset of users might use it? I am a European Firefox user, but I don’t use Firefox on iOS because the UX compared to Safari is incredibly lacklustre. Switching the back-end to Gecko wouldn’t do anything to fix that.

I don’t see third party engines making it to the market unless the US also slams down some regulations. How many Firefox users are there in the EU? How many use iOS, and how many of those are likely to use the iOS version of Firefox? Is it worth maintaining two to four separate apps for this?

You still need an extension to automatically open specific sites in their own containers. I genuinely don’t get why.

I swapped back to Firefox a couple of months ago. I am of the opinion that all browsers ought use the same engine, but Google shouldn’t be given more of a chokehole on the web than they already have. It’s troubling enough as it is.

That said, Firefox not supporting basic things like selectively turning off JS for websites, or vertical tabs without using wonky and inelegant third party extensions (and ui-chrome editing!) is honestly ridiculous.

I lay breakfast for the mean apes.

It sounds a lot more scandalous than it was, but yeah. I found this photo. As you can see, you can’t really see the dude’s body, but you can see the details of box underneath his shirt.

Honestly, a UV camera/filter for the front camera would be useful for things like applying sunscreen. I’ve contemplated making a smart mirror with that type of functionality.

Didn’t OnePlus have a special camera which ended up being updated away because it would see through people’s clothes?

Would that I could, I’d trade years of my life to get some extra years for my dog. It’s insane to think he’s a third of the way through his lifespan already.

I think the implication here is that it wasn’t communists. Lots of people call whatever they don’t like “communism.”