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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 months ago (61 children)

The devs have some problematic views, mainly transphobic and misogynistic.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It almost like a bot is posting this sentence every time SerenityOS is mentioned.

Using "he" insted of "they" is not enough to call someone transphobic or misogynistic. It's like you become fascist and are targeting people for one different opinion. Which is not even true.

There are real problems transgender people are having, ladybird browser must be low on that priority.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are real problems transgender people are having, ladybird browser must be low on that priority.

Are you trying to tell me that Ladybird inadvertently referring to a computer process 'he' instead of 'it' is not a high priority problem for transgender people? What could possibly be worse? :p

(But seriously though. I find it really weird that people are still upset at Ladybird about this. It makes me wonder if there's some social manipulation going on. Like, is anyone actually upset about this, or is it just an excuse to attack the devs?)

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