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Serious Question: With risk of being hated, this is an honest question: I've never sought out another browser than using pretty much any of the big three... J

Serious Question: With risk of being hated, this is an honest question: I've never sought out another browser than using pretty much any of the big three... Just because I have never had any sort of personal workflow/painpoint/interest in any of these other browsers/engines, that frankly I had never heard of and then another thing pops up every few years with yet another new one that I havent heard of -- but they all seem to have lively communities... The question is: What is the primary drive/utility that you/others are seeking/gaining with these none FF/chrome/edge things?

dale_glass 2y ago
Servo is written in Rust so one big aim would be to have better security. I believe it's supposed to also be much better parallelized. On my part, I'm very much looking forward to an embeddable browser engine. Neither Firefox nor Chrome are interested, and QtWebEngine exists, but takes extensive patching, and so depends on the Qt project remaining to exist and keeping up with upstream.
- niutech 2y ago
  There are also: CEF, WebKitGTK (http://www.webkitgtk.org http://www.webkitgtk.org) or Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht https://ultralig.ht).
Aerbil313 2y ago
Diversification and modern codebases. Without these two we’re locked to made in US browsers full of CVEs. I don’t think any nation state can audit Chromium today, not even US DoD.
ummonk 2y ago
I primarily use Safari on Mac / iPhone because it's integrated with iCloud Keychain. I also use Brave because it's the only browser with which I've been able to screenshare streaming sites for group viewing without getting a black page due to DRM.
niutech 2y ago
All mainstream web browsers are bloated and use a lot of resources. I am looking for a tiny lightweight web browser with good HTML5 support but without bloat for older computers. Servo, Ladybird and Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht https://ultralig.ht) are promising. I even started developing Qt Ultralight Browser (https://github.com/niutech/qt-ultralight-browser https://github.com/niutech/qt-ultralight-browser).

dale_glass 2y ago

Servo is written in Rust so one big aim would be to have better security. I believe it's supposed to also be much better parallelized. On my part, I'm very much looking forward to an embeddable browser engine. Neither Firefox nor Chrome are interested, and QtWebEngine exists, but takes extensive patching, and so depends on the Qt project remaining to exist and keeping up with upstream.

niutech 2y ago
There are also: CEF, WebKitGTK (http://www.webkitgtk.org http://www.webkitgtk.org) or Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht https://ultralig.ht).

Aerbil313 2y ago

Diversification and modern codebases. Without these two we’re locked to made in US browsers full of CVEs. I don’t think any nation state can audit Chromium today, not even US DoD.

ummonk 2y ago

I primarily use Safari on Mac / iPhone because it's integrated with iCloud Keychain. I also use Brave because it's the only browser with which I've been able to screenshare streaming sites for group viewing without getting a black page due to DRM.

niutech 2y ago

All mainstream web browsers are bloated and use a lot of resources. I am looking for a tiny lightweight web browser with good HTML5 support but without bloat for older computers. Servo, Ladybird and Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht https://ultralig.ht) are promising. I even started developing Qt Ultralight Browser (https://github.com/niutech/qt-ultralight-browser https://github.com/niutech/qt-ultralight-browser).