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Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

#1
I've been using Firefox for a while now, but I have some issues with it:

1. I need to switch to chrome for various products such as Google Meet (works on Firefox, but I ran into performance (call quality) issues).

2. I often find sites with bad support for Firefox, and I need to again open a second browser (usually Chrome) to check them out.

3. It seems that in the past... long time, they have a talent of making Firefox worst. I still like it if it wasn't for the other 2 issues, but who can tell in 1 year.

Due to the above I was looking for a browser (one, I don't like having multiple on my machine but not sure if the Google Meet performance upgrade is just in Chrome or Chromium) which is as fast as Firefox, has a nice UI and preferably a bit more privacy oriented (not much, just a bit more).

Any ideas? (Currently checking out Vivaldi, but read a lot about performance issues + I don't really like the default UI yet).

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

#5
Microsoft Edge.

Chromium based, has vertical tabs (window border can be switched off too) via flags. Works great.

Vivaldi promised many things but its performance sucks indeed and I hate the fact that the browser has bullshit features like Phillips ligths controls or something.

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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I've been using Brave, but I shut off the Rewards junk. Every option has serious trade-offs, so you're going to have to decide which are acceptable to you.

I use Brave, with the Rewards junk, and it has maintained its speed that every other browser I've used loses as it fills up with caches, history, extensions, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

#8

I'm in the odd position of recommending Microsoft Edge...

Tried it for a while back and it became sluggish.

Just checked it out, it seems fast. It seems decently private (as private as a corp can get lol).

Not sure about updates & performance about Google products. Do you have any clue if chromium includes the not-in-spec performance optimizations for Google Meet and such?

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