The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
Edit: Added link to the Firefox discussion to give better context to my question.
I don’t know if Librewolf counts as obscure enough but Mozilla’s decisions on things as of late have been very questionable. It’s probably not enough to just use Librewolf but it’s a start…
Reminds me to check out lynx again.
What’s the Firefox ToC discussion you mention?
It is their data now boy
seamonkey but it’s pretty hard to use without much love nowadays with so many incompatible websites. It’s a perfect mail client tho.
Just get Firefox ESR with arkenfox, that should be enough.
Articfox librewolf
On one of my OSes, I still use Brave.
holy shit fearless freep
Brave is a series scam company.
No real data to backup this claim other than complaints about their addons which can be disabled, and their CEO doesn’t have the best morals and principles. Like we all believe the exact same things everyday all day.
Multiple highly reputable non profits and other sources show the browser itself performs as one of the best when it comes to privacy. Leave the negativity against Nestle.
Yeah; unfortunately on that particular computer, it’s the only modern browser that still functions. I don’t trust it with anything.
If the question had been “what trustworthy browsers do you use?” I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
If you need or want to use a Chromium browser, Brave seems to be the best, at least according to https://privacytests.org/.
I use qutebrowser, it’s a keyboard driven browser that uses QtWebEngine (based on Chromium).
Fennec (Firefox based)
I’ve been using Orion on iOS for a while. It’s not bad.
They are porting to Linux was just announced not long ago… however dont know how long that will take. I am just gonna keep using FF until I can try Orion.
Internet Explorer 11
(just kidding)
Zen
Cromite. it is a very good and private, easy to use browser, but can be heavy on resources https://github.com/uazo/cromite. It uses Chromium engine. There are browsers like Ladybug and there is also an another project that use their own web engine, but anything that doesn’t use the engines you mentoioned, is impossible to daily drive, most of them doesn’t evem support javascript, or any script execution, which means you can only browse the most basic blogs, and forget about shopping, social media, and even forums
I’m really hoping the new ladybird browser is delivered sooner than expected
Is Arc considered obscure?
Zen for desktop: https://zen-browser.app/
Ironfox for mobile: https://ironfoxoss.org/
