Something sweet (acidic) will break it down too. I find fruit juice or a soft drink will work better for me than milk.

There’s been been bills at the EU level, but they’ve been defeated. I think individual countries introduced their own bills if they were supporters of the EU one.

Basically browsers are big because they are operating systems for web hosted applications with huge attack surfaces and lots of legacy compatibility requirements amassed over 3 decades.

A rewrite isn’t the answer. Putting limits on browser functionality is. JavaScript was the turning point IMHO.

Personally I keep a copy of chromium around just for Google meet. Everything else is on Firefox.