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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 week ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of that list, Zen is the only one really worth considering. And then you have the “but the best one that supports widevine” issue.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Firefox is still great, and Tor Browser is fantastic.

I'm personally checking out Mullvad Browser.

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[–] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is just a list of browsers with apparently good tab management.

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chrome !=Chromium. The tite is correct.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Google could close the Chromium source at any time. There might be promises and provisions that they'll never do that, but if they do, who has the money to sue them? And who, of those, can't be bought?

"So what, people can run with the last good codebase!"

Sure, until there's a critical bug that Google don't publish which then cripples Chromium until the maintainers figure it out, or else Google (deliberately or otherwise) take web standards down an unexpected path requiring massive changes, also making life hard for the fork maintainers.

And don't say "that'll never happen". Need I gesture broadly at the state of the world?

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[–] Lasagna@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Arc is very nice for my workflow, quite a different take on what a browser can be. But I’d say you’re not missing out too much as it’s, unfortunately, no longer in active development.

They still update chromium regularly, but they’re no longer working on functionality or bug fixes because it’s “done” or something. 🤷‍♂️

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am surprised they abandoned it. It was originally launched as a macOS variant only, correct? And Mac users praised it a lot, on the Web. I thought with that level of traction they will keep going.

In contrast, there are projects that have a much lower user base though vocal (read: Pale Moon) and despite struggling with half of the available modern Web pages, those projects still keep going.

[–] Lasagna@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah I was surprised as well, but apparently they’re working in a new browser.

It’s an interesting approach where you can take all the learnings from the first product and then put it into a follow-up product.

I hope they’re continuing the ARC direction, just not based on Chromium. But I’m afraid they’re going all in on some sort of AI browser..

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Afaik they are going headfirst into the AI craze, which I imagine won’t improve the experience, and will probably cost money to use.

[–] f314@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TBF the AI features in Arc are actually pretty good! Just quality of life-stuff like renaming downloads and getting summary previews when hovering search results. I have a suspicion they’ll push it farther with Dia, though…

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yea, the way they talk about Dia really puts me off.

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[–] quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I didn't see Waterfox mentioned in the article or comments, so I'm giving it a shout out now. Firefox is still my #1 browser, which I have synced to all my critical accounts, and use very cautiously, only using a few trustwothy extensions. However, when I want to explore unfamiliar domains or experiment with lesser-known browser extensions, I've relied on the equally dependable Waterfox browser. It's fast, free, and 99% the same as Firefox except it's a completely different app so you can basically have 2 Firefoxes set up and customized for completely different roles. Between the two, I can keep Chrome frozen on my phone and off my desktop (although I have a portable Chromium on USB for emergencies).

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You do know Firefox has profiles you can use to effectively make it two (or more) separate browsers?

Not shitting on Waterfox, just FYI.

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