1. Use Firefox
2. Use Edge for Meet or any other situation where Firefox fails.
Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
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Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#12Firefox is my primary browser too and use Brave as the secondary, and thus far it's pretty much exactly like Chrome/Chromium.
Many bring up the cryptocurrency relation and I do get that (And other than the world-view differences, they've also had some mishaps like injecting referral codes to URLs, but hopefully they have learned from these). But given that both Google and Microsoft are interested in your personal data then Brave does seem to be a better choice than them.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#13Microsoft 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.
> bullshit features like Phillips ligths controls or something
Hah, it really does. Apparently Vivaldi can connect to your Philips Hue lights and change their colors based on the active tab’s webpage color.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#14I feel like a lot of companies stopped testing for Firefox and those issues get attributed to Mozilla (not that some performance issues aren't their fault, but I've definitely encountered issues that get attributed to Mozilla but are failures to test for a different rendering engine).
I use Safari or Edge as a fallback if I run into issues. Google seems to spend a lot of time specifically optimizing their apps (gmail, meet) for Chrome... so I tend to keep Chrome around specifically for those cases. I still find that Edge and Safari have more issues than Firefox.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#15If your on the Mac maybe just use Safari. I got a new Mac and decided that I didn’t really wanted to bother installing to much stuff, so I skipped Firefox, among other things.
Safari has been great the last few months. Performance hasn’t been an issue, the only site which still drains the batteri is Imgur and besides obvious tracking, I haven’t encountered broken sites.
On the topic of tracking, I found that many of the sites that break in Firefox do so due to privacy features. The sites work in Chrome because Google doesn’t care to implement the same features.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#16A 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
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#17There'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 that landscape, now is sitting idle redesigning the UI just to justify their existence.
I use Edge, with custom scripts to turn off as much phoning home as possible, and it's still bad.
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#18I'm in the odd position of recommending Microsoft Edge...
I haven’t kept up with Edge, is Microsoft adding all sorts of weird feature or are they just delivering a good browser without the bizar stuff Firefox, Chrome and Vivaldi seems to be collecting?
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#19Disclaimer: 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
Re: Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?
#20I feel like a lot of companies stopped testing for Firefox and those issues get attributed to Mozilla (not that some performance issues aren't their fault, but I've definitely encountered issues that get attributed to Mozilla but are failures to test for a different rendering engine). I use Safari or Edge as a fallback if I run into issues. Google seems to spend a lot of time specifically optimizing their apps (gmail…
Yep, it's not Mozilla's fault many websites don't offer support for it sadly. But it's still frustrating to never be sure and always having to double check with a Chrome if it's because of Firefox or because of the website.
Do you think those optimizations are only in Chrome or also in Chromium? I'd expect only Chrome but...