“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I'm shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work.

ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers - Stephanie Stimac's Blog

I shed a tear. The announcement of atlas is done by people I worked with and respect a lot - Ben, Darin. Heck, a whole lot of the firefox team, which then became the chrome team, which is now the atlas team. I know they care about the web, the platform and the openness of it and how it all should ultimately create a more vibrant web.

In the long arc, maybe I am the anachronistic one, still retaining a sense of what the web should be and not fully accepting what it is?

This is also saddening because the web is in an era of renaissance. Almost every "desktop" app you run is running on web technologies. And desktop has an entire renaissance thanks to AI technologies.

It's a moment to lean into what makes the web great.

I still retain hope. There are some amazing people coming together with the same ethos with which we approached the web platform in the heydays of chrome.

https://resonantcomputing.org

I am a signatory. This is a hopeful venture that I want to support and it deeply resonates with how I think and want computing to evolve. I believe that chrome will be supplanted someday by a better browser. However, it will be one that deeply wants the web to succeed. I am eagerly waiting for it and my suspicion right now is that it's not Atlas. ymmv