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Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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Re: Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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My dream is that someone will spec out a nice simple subset of modern HTML/CSS, and folks will start making compatible static sites. A few years of that and we could have some nice truly lightweight browsers again. Imagine how fast sites like Wikipedia or YouTube could be if JS wasn't even an option.

That’s AMP, or at least the good parts of it.

Re: Ask HN: Can someone suggest an open source lightweight alternative to Chrome?

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No other reason for Brave? Some don’t want to or care for blocking ads and others don’t do it at the browser level. Does Brave have anything at that point?

It's hard for any browser to be "lightweight" without blocking javascript and ads. So of the ad blockers, Brave is the lightest weight. You could turn the ad blocker off, and still get paid to use Brave though, if you like ads.

If ads or other things are already taken care of ourside the browser, doesn’t that make Brave heavier? It now has redundancy.
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