So much of my experience of browsing the web is fighting sites over how I want them displayed, that I'm beginning to think that I don't want a web browser that renders web pages, and instead I want a web browser that scrapes content from web pages and displays it according to my preferences.
@madewokherd something more deserving of the term "user agent"
@madewokherd firefox has some feature that simplifies a page for better reading. But not sure how well that fits your usecase. Maybe sites are also completely broken with that...
@riesi I'm aware of it. It's occasionally an improvement.
Like, no one can make a web browser because the web is so complex, and we mostly use that complexity for:
And.. maybe a simple client would be better than a complex VM and layout engine a lot of the time?