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The only “issue” I have with libre is its essentially a full pull of Firefox nightly with some rust patches on top. Its reliant on Firefox, so its not really a “new” browser per-say.
That being said, I use it everyday :) Its an excellent project.
Hard to fault them for that though. It’s damn near impossible to build a fully or even mostly functioning browser for the modern internet without a huge team of devs unless you build it on top of chromium or Firefox, and I’d rather the latter
Yep agreed. I guess I just had a misconception at first.
To me the killer feature is the ability to send my tabs to any device I have. Without it it’s impossible for me to ditch Firefox, I rely too much on this feature.
I wonder if Waterfox allows this. It’s MOSTLY Firefox but without going down the AI trash route.
Vivaldi and Librewolf are good recommends. So good call by the author.
I wish I could completely ditch Blink based browsers for Gecko ones, just because I dislike how dominant Blink is thanks to Chrome. But some sites don’t render correctly on Gecko. So a fallback is needed.
Edit: I haven’t used Vivaldi in a long time, and apparently it’s not what I thought it was. Are there really no outstanding open source Blink-based browser out there?
We vote with our browser. And you are voting Chromium. It’s ok, but you could do something about it.
I’m really not. I use Firefox 99.5% of the time (I need to switch to Librewolf). But there are some rare occasions - usually shitty old billing websites - where Gecko simply does not work due to said shitty old website. Not paying those bills is an impractical solution. Having a fallback for those rare occasions isn’t unreasonable.
Sorry, I misunderstood then. I use Librewolf btw, great choice.
What’s wrong with Vivaldi?
If you dont require open-source in your decision, Vivaldi is great. Its what i use most. It has a ton of granular features that i appreciate, but can be a bit too much for folks that want a more minimal experience.
Agreed. It’s the enthusiast’s browser for sure.
I’ve dumped FF for Zen and Waterfox.
Zen’s only downside is that it can’t play some DRM media like some sports websites. Waterfox can, so I use it for that.
I’m really enjoying Orion on iPhone and Mac
I was pretty happy with Zen until updates started to bring in some bugs and lag. It takes up the most resources to start and the URL bar peeks out a majority of the time in compact mode. If you prefer new tabs and are in compact mode the side tabs don’t hide and cover a large part of your bookmarks bar while on a new tab page and it feels messy.
I went back to Floorp for a bit, but inevitably ended up back on Qutebrowser. The only downside to Qute is half the greasemonkey scripts to bypass YouTube ads don’t work and the python-adblock plus Brave adblock don’t block first party ads.
You can get around the first problem by adding a shortcut to bring up weblinks that open in MPV, but I haven’t found a solution to the second problem yet.
