@dale i remember way back when liking opera because it had irc, torrent, etc baked in.

lots of internet users want to play alternative toys, but will only do it if they know it is safe.

when i first got into web dev and i needed "more than a browser" i got some shared VPS with a Cpanel dashboard with mysql, phpmyadmin, etc, etc. that host determined the services, protocols, host system.

we can have all that locally now for our personal networks.

firefox baked with that; probably wasm-backed.