This is a good thing. It's time for a big change. Some contenders are:
1. A lighter browser that goes back to the early 90s, supporting HTML, forms, sockets, a handful of codecs, and nothing more. The newer modern features have added disproportionate security risk. There are so many exploited zero-days in modern browsers that no modern browser is safe.
2. A chat system limiting to what AI can directly infer (in a rendered sense). Usually this content is limited to markdown/text/HTML and images/video, but no scripts. The AI's internal representation does not render a script like a browser does. Sockets can be simulated by message updates.
Konqueror still works, as does IE11. You don't need modern browsers. Most people just want them.
> There are so many exploited zero-days in modern browsers that no modern browser is safe.
Interesting suggestion. Do you know how many of those zero-days are related to modern features? Most of them seem to be coming from "browsers are still made in C(++)" and "Javascript/CSS performance optimisalisations gone wrong" that has been a risk for decades now. There was that time Apple accidentally opened up part of local browser storage from any website to any other website, but the same bug might as well happen with something as basic as cookies; we were just lucky that the bug was in that weird web SQL thing from a decade and a half ago that nobody uses.
People don't want them. People want something that "just works" for them to browse the web. The web is a complex mess of standards that requires a complicated browser right now, but does it need to be?
1. A lighter browser that goes back to the early 90s, supporting HTML, forms, sockets, a handful of codecs, and nothing more. The newer modern features have added disproportionate security risk. There are so many exploited zero-days in modern browsers that no modern browser is safe.
2. A chat system limiting to what AI can directly infer (in a rendered sense). Usually this content is limited to markdown/text/HTML and images/video, but no scripts. The AI's internal representation does not render a script like a browser does. Sockets can be simulated by message updates.