ungoogled-chromium
Is this chromium, or a branch of chromium with patches?
It's a fork, with all the anti privacy stuff that's in chromium ripped out.
Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
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Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#42There's none, to be quite honest. Chrome is spyware, Edge is spyware, Brave has too many crypto sponsor for my liking, Firefox is going off a cliff, Vivaldi is the definition of bloat. The web browser ecosystem is frankly appalling, and it's so complicated it's impossible for new competitors to appear and improve the status quo. We just have to put up with it, and I am furious Mozilla, one of the shining beacons on t…
To my knowledge the crypto rewards feature on Brave is opt-in. How is that an argument against Brave?
Notice how Brave had the weakest reasoning. A little talking point about crypto pushes it away, even though it's the only browser actually taking privacy seriously, not just as a marketing technique. Safari comes in second, but Apple actively cripples it due to the threat of PWA breaking the walled garden.
You have to opt-in to Brave marketing like you mentioned. It allows people to earn BAT if they want to, so they can tip site owners. Better than ads right? The only other complaint is the home screen where you can buy crypto and they get an affiliate payout, which is how they make money. That can be disabled and have you seen the default home screen of Edge? Its news is just ads and paid campaigns.
Brave also supports more protocols like IPFS, Web torrent, and Tor, its telling other browsers don't.
The power of propaganda is strong. The GP uses Edge that he knows is spyware and doesn't even consider Brave because one little talking point that simply gets summed up as "crypto".
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#43Yeah this is why monopolies are bad. Your only real options are chromium based stuff, or safari. if you are going the chromium route, id go with ungoogled chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium . Its really the only version of chromium I think is good, and its got the google tracking stuff removed for the most part.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#44A while ago, I used to recommend Waterfox. Its mostly a dead project now & differing by a wide margin with Firefox upstream. Updates are few and rare. I use Vivaldi at present. It is mostly fine. Plugins work fine & the web/mobile sync is decent. No crashes or memory overflow on either platform - using since 6 months approximately. My SO uses Edge and she has been reasonably happy with it
Have you tried LibreWolf? I'm not a big fan of a bundled ad blocker, but they seem less ambitious and therefore more sustainable. (Only tweaking defaults of FF itself.)
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks awesome but the fact that updates are 1 year apart is a bit of a turn off lol.
Perhaps all that is needed to pick up the momentum is a spark of interest.
As an outsider I see how you can think that way, but alas Falkon is not a 'new' browser.
It's the ol' faithful Qupzilla, but rebranded to fall into the KDE umbrella. But as other KDE browsers (konqueror, rekonq...) it's dying a slow death only to fall in darkness.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#46FWIW 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.
I have a specific use case where I'm communicating with a person from across the world weekly. Tried Zoom but eventually moved to Google Meet because it worked better. It could be WAY better but meh. And the difference between Meet on Firefox & Google Chrome is significant. All this considering I'm running on a gigabit network. Not 100% sure about the partner.
I have daily calls with people in multiple continents. Always on FF.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#47Ungoogled Chromium
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#48 I often see comments on HN complaining about Firefox being poorly supported by some sites. I honestly cannot remember the last time I experienced any support issues with it. Are these generally more niche sites and are we talking misaligned text or a completely broken page?
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#49I often see comments on HN complaining about Firefox being poorly supported by some sites. I honestly cannot remember the last time I experienced any support issues with it. Are these generally more niche sites and are we talking misaligned text or a completely broken page?
Broken or hard to use. Usually state run pages for various agencies, school websites things like that (at least in my country).
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a specific use case where I'm communicating with a person from across the world weekly. Tried Zoom but eventually moved to Google Meet because it worked better. It could be WAY better but meh. And the difference between Meet on Firefox & Google Chrome is significant. All this considering I'm running on a gigabit network. Not 100% sure about the partner.
I have daily calls with people in multiple continents. Always on FF.
Not sure - I'm having a weekly 1 on 1 call with someone (heard that on Zoom 1 on 1s go to P2P, not sure how it's on Google Meet) and the quality is meh. Significantly worst on FF.