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I've been looking for an alternative recently anyways. Haven't quite found the right catch yet. Sad to surrender to Chromium after all these years, but Firefox
by sva_ 5y ago
I've been looking for an alternative recently anyways. Haven't quite found the right catch yet. Sad to surrender to Chromium after all these years, but Firefox seems to get worse and worse.
- okamiueru 5y agoI've been using Vivaldi lately, and very happy with it. I really missed the old days of Opera, which for a long time was superior to Firefox and Chrome in so many ways. Up until they changed the web, and Opera dom/rendering engine couldn't keep up. Vivaldi is the successor to Opera in many ways.
- blippage 5y agoI've used Dillo. It's amazing how snappy a browser can be. Alas, it's an impractical browser to use, as most sites require JavaScript. The real problem is websites, ever-increasing the capabilities of browsers. If that went away then the whole problem of choosing a browser would be solved. All browsers are capable of rendering vanilla HTML, and even graphics, so there's usually very little need for JavaScript. There's always the option of processing dynamic content on the backend. I heard that Google Maps originally spat out pages that were in the region of a few 10's of kb. Imagine that! We live in curious times. Engineers used to design for simplicity, now we seem to just sling more mud onto the pile. It's also curious that environmentalism is such a hot-button topic these days, yet manufacturers are pushing out stuff that makes it harder to repair.
- soundnote 5y agoVivaldi and Brave are the best picks, IMO. Both default to a lot of privacy-friendly settings, try not to track you, and run their own sync stack that's end to end encrypted by default.