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Do any of them have a decent chance of success? Or are they doomed to struggle to copy chromes features. Doomed to break because no one tests against them?
by space_fountain 9y ago
Do any of them have a decent chance of success? Or are they doomed to struggle to copy chromes features. Doomed to break because no one tests against them?
- axlprose 9y agoIf your goal is utmost privacy like many of these projects are providing, you're already going to expect and experience some breakages regardless. Any browser is going to struggle against the top two behemoths, so I'm not sure why exactly that would be an argument to just accept it and continue using products by companies that have lost your trust. Are end users supposed to compromise their ethics just because web developers aren't in the habit of testing against their browser of choice yet? That just seems like an awfully 'silicon-valley-centric' view of the world. What does this "success" thing have to do with ditching a product that had violated your trust anyway? Are businesses in most other industries viewed this way? Am I expected to stop buying food from local producers just because the big-box food suppliers are more ubiquitous? To me, all that matters is sustainability, and IceCat has been going strong for 12 years, PaleMoon has been consistently developed for 8 years, and Waterfox for 6 years. So that's enough for me to at least give them a shot.
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- djsumdog 9y agoAlthough not a FF derivative, I've been using Vivaldi for a while and do enjoy it. I hate not supporting an OSS browser though, but found even with the performance improvement in FF57, it still didn't compare to a Chromium based browser like Vivaldi. It's got a decently large userbase and could be a viable alternative.
- catach 9y ago> Doomed to break because no one tests against them? Every browser on that list is based on either Chromium or Gecko.