Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

Regarding point 2, I always let them know (if I care enough). If I don't care, I don't visit their site - if they haven't bothered to make sure it works with FF, there are likely to have other problems.

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by jensen2k » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

I don't know if you are on a Mac, but you could check out Orion, based on webkit but built in support for Chrome and Firefox-extensions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799049

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by taigi100 » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

dustfinger wrote: post #19

Disclaimer: I have not yet tried this browser, so I am not sure if it will meet your performance needs. I think it is worth looking at though, since it is fully open source and community driven. Falcon GPLv3 URL: https://www.falkon.org/ source: https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon

Looks awesome but the fact that updates are 1 year apart is a bit of a turn off lol.

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by bryan0 » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

FWIW I use google meet with Firefox all the time with no issues. The only annoying thing is that it won’t let you blur the background. (They allowed this feature on FF for one glorious week but then took it away)

Even my coworkers who use chrome prefer zoom though, so we’ve been switching more and more meetings to zoom.

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by marban » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

Safari zealot since day one but Opera as an occasional backup.

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by falcolas » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

commotionfever wrote: post #10

ungoogled-chromium

Is this chromium, or a branch of chromium with patches?

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by donkarma » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

pale moon

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by drfxyjhdyfrhgc » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

>I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation).

Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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Post by messo » Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

LibreWolf is a privacy focused fork of Firefox and I use Fennec on Android. My only add-on is uBlock.