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Everyone is complaining it is built in electron, and it is a browser running a browser. Brave is also built on electron and is also a browser running a browser.
But if what you need is an actual, literal web browser, then I’m not sure I see why this is a bad choice.
If you want fast and minimal, give Lynx a try. The original fast, minimal, privacy protected browser: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/
Besides that, I really enjoy the surge of browsers in last few years, we got orion, min, arc and I guess few more I missed
A browser in electron? At this point just use chromium - makes no difference. Anyway, use firefox or librewolf. Stop enabling the chromium monopoly!
The advantage of Min would be the UI, which I find quite appealing myself.
Electron, WebKit, nope. Kudos for experimenting with minimalism! But this is not the alternative to Firefox I've been looking for.
> Electron, WebKit, nope. Electron uses Chromium. Which uses Blink, not WebKit.
If one could make a browser with Firefox's backend and instead render with Blink that would be pretty dope.
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> Electron, WebKit, nope. Electron uses Chromium. Which uses Blink, not WebKit.
Well the worst part of Firefox is arguably Gecko. If one could make a browser with Firefox's backend and instead render with Blink that would be pretty dope.
Gecko is Firefox's "backend" ...
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The advantage of Min would be the UI, which I find quite appealing myself.
One might argue this should be a fork of Chromium, not Electron. Chromium comes with native tabs and a bunch of other useful parts, without the security issues that Electron exposes.
Electron, WebKit, nope. Kudos for experimenting with minimalism! But this is not the alternative to Firefox I've been looking for.