>I don't think my position is extreme. I'm not advocating for a removal of all browser features, merely removal of those which are unrelated to the browser's core purpose of document navigation and rendering.
The view that a browser's core purpose is document rendering and navigation was laughably out of date in 2000. It is simply an invalid opinion today. Users and developers can and do expect browsers to be fully-functional sandboxed runtimes that can host everything from mail clients, to mapping applications to games.
But if you want your browser to be nothing more than a document rendering engine, no one is forcing you to use Firefox. w3m and xxxterm, for example, both fulfill this role quite admirably.
> But if you want your browser to be nothing more than a
> document rendering engine, no one is forcing you to use
> Firefox. w3m and xxxterm, for example, both fulfill this
> role quite admirably.
No they don't, not even close. Firefox and Chrome are years ahead of them in important features like CSS, fonts, and graphics.
The view that a browser's core purpose is document rendering and navigation was laughably out of date in 2000. It is simply an invalid opinion today. Users and developers can and do expect browsers to be fully-functional sandboxed runtimes that can host everything from mail clients, to mapping applications to games.
But if you want your browser to be nothing more than a document rendering engine, no one is forcing you to use Firefox. w3m and xxxterm, for example, both fulfill this role quite admirably.