Web Browser General - Fuck Chromium. All my homies hate Chromium.

[The Spoils of War]

google is good btw.

Die.

 

[Least Concern]

It does though.

Oh, very nice! I wonder when they added this feature. Thanks for sharing that.

I can't figure out how to remove the horizontal tabs though - can't figure out what that article means by "dragging the tabs out." But for now I'll live with both.

 

[They were once men]

i use firfox with a customzied user js for performance and privacy which seems to be the best way of doing things because some of these forks lag behind when it comes to security updates on the otherhand every new feature firefox adds is extremely shit and not useful at all plus they keep adding these gay welcoming screens after every update telling me how good i am for using their browser which is also incredibly gay like nigga i don't use your browser because i want to i just hate chromium based browsers, i really hope the rumor going around that they're about to lose a shit ton of money from google is true then maybe the mozilla corporation will go bankrupt and firefox can be handed back to people with more than 2 brain cells.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

Edge may not be perfect but it is highly underrated. It is the only browser that I've found that is reasonably fast on both PC and Android, syncs favorites and history across devices, and, when using the Canary build, allows you to have add-ons on Android. You can install pretty much anything on the Edge add-ons page once you have developer options enabled and can install anything from .cvx files. I've been able to install uBlock Origin from the Edge add-ons page and Libredirect and Bypass Paywalls Clean through .cvx files, and they all work perfectly. It has made the browsing experience on mobile just as un-pozzed as it is on desktop.

 

[XaXaSt0rr]

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave

Just dropping this here. I never understood the hype about Brave, it's just another chromium skin. Use Ungoogled Chromium or Librewolf.

 

[The Spoils of War]

Just dropping this here. I never understood the hype about Brave, it's just another chromium skin.

It's spyware just because it pings a server? Did Stallman write this? Believe me, I don't like Brave, but this is ridiculous.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

GNU Icecat not being on this list is a tragedy.

 

[XaXaSt0rr]

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It's spyware just because it pings a server? Did Stallman write this? Believe me, I don't like Brave, but this is ridiculous.

It literally collects data though. Nonetheless, it seems bloated to me.

 

[Catter]

>no icecat
it's gnuver...

 

[SCV]

or maybe its lack of good alternative

Moz://a has been pozzed for several years at this point and it has been clear firefox is going downhill because if it. There has been ample time to both notice this and find an alternative. You say that there are no good alternatives in a thread that starts with a poll listing more than a dozen alternatives including librewolf and waterfox which would be a simple copy+paste of your firefox profile to migrate. Literally seconds to migrate. If you, right now, are still using firefox https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e then you are niggercattle.

google still is king for me

100% Grade A grass-fed niggercattle.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Librewolf it is

You probably don't want Librewolf. The developers are a bad mix of lazy (it's not even a fork of Firefox) and this:

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These people are not going to have your back when Mozilla starts digging deeper into the data-harvesting business. Especially if the only people complaining (and they will be) are "problematic chuds" who clearly only value the concept of privacy so they can say the nigger word.

I recommend Vivaldi. It's developed by the Opera 12 guys, works with Chromium framework and despite that has the EU breathing down its neck to respect privacy laws. It's absolutely hideous out of the box and a resource hog (everything Chrome related is), but fixing that is as simple as turning off 'features' in the Settings menu and using Violentmonkey to install userscripts instead of Chrome Web Store.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

I never understood the hype about Brave,

that fucker that owns Kiwifarms was hyping it up for years, i think for awhile he lived off that BAT people were giving him, so in a way its like he was shilling it to make money like that juice the SA guy was shilling.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

GNU Icecat not being on this list is a tragedy.

I didn't want to bloat the already huge list.

Please forgive me GNU xisters...

 

[seri0us]

GNU Icecat not being on this list is a tragedy.

GNU Icecat isn't maintained anymore

 

[Colon capital V]

You probably don't want Librewolf. The developers are a bad mix of lazy (it's not even a fork of Firefox) and this:

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These people are not going to have your back when Mozilla starts digging deeper into the data-harvesting business. Especially if the only people complaining (and they will be) are "problematic chuds" who clearly only value the concept of privacy so they can say the nigger word.

I recommend Vivaldi. It's developed by the Opera 12 guys, works with Chromium framework and despite that has the EU breathing down its neck to respect privacy laws. It's absolutely hideous out of the box and a resource hog (everything Chrome related is), but fixing that is as simple as turning off 'features' in the Settings menu and using Violentmonkey to install userscripts instead of Chrome Web Store.

It seems people are already having issues with the new update that came out over preferences from Speddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comments/1j48ddu/librewolf_1360_is_straight_up_broken_preferences/

There really is no "good" alternative is there, jesus fucking christ I fucking hate programmers so much. Actually bite a fucking bullet if you program for a living you dipshit tranny faggot. Fuck you and kill yourself retard, TPD.

 

[Elysian]

until and unless it can provide developer tools like those in the big 3 engines it won't be of much use to me personally

Ladybird started implementing the exact same developer tools as Firefox last month:

I never understood the hype about Brave

They patch the adblocking into the browser code itself so you don’t have to rely on an extension downloaded from Google’s Chrome Web Store that could be removed at any time.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

my favorite part of brave is how it can't spell check words and has the worst search in history.

Brave Search is still ass, but it has certainly improved over time.

Over the few years I've been using Brave on mobile as my primary, it's gone from being a completely unusable search engine that doesn't return anything close to a tool that gets the job done probably 75% of the time.

My main ongoing complaint about Brave is also it's biggest asset.

It's awesome for using YT in the browser to avoid ads and keep playing audio with your mobile screen off.

My ongoing annoyance is that the Brave YT browser interface doesn't even have the option to view livechat during streams, doesn't update live viewer counts and won't allow comments to be Sorted by New, which allows many shadowbanned ones to seen.

So I find myself often shifting between Brave YT in browser and the official YT app, where I'm exposed to the QoL flaws of both.

 

[Catastrophe-TM]

Edge may not be perfect but it is highly underrated. It is the only browser that I've found that is reasonably fast on both PC and Android, syncs favorites and history across devices, and, when using the Canary build, allows you to have add-ons on Android. You can install pretty much anything on the Edge add-ons page once you have developer options enabled and can install anything from .cvx files. I've been able to install uBlock Origin from the Edge add-ons page and Libredirect and Bypass Paywalls Clean through .cvx files, and they all work perfectly. It has made the browsing experience on mobile just as un-pozzed as it is on desktop.

I've been thinking of trying out a new browser since Firefox is being gay, is there a tutorial for setting Edge up like this and what other settings I should enable/disable? I thought of using Brave, but I don't like the crypto miner stuff it comes with.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I've been thinking of trying out a new browser since Firefox is being gay, is there a tutorial for setting Edge up like this and what other settings I should enable/disable? I thought of using Brave, but I don't like the crypto miner stuff it comes with.

For desktop you can just use the standard build of Edge. Obviously on Windows you don't have to do anything to get that, but it is downloadable for Mac and Linux as well and seem to be identical in features and aesthetically from my limited time using Edge on Linux. For Android, Edge Canary is a separate entry on the Google Play Store from the mainline Edge build, but it will still sync favorites and history with the mainline build on desktop. Both versions of Edge on Android have some add-ons that were pre-approved by Microsoft and appear on the list of downloads (Video speed controller and Dark Reader are the ones that I opted to download and work great). In order to install add-ons from the Edge add-ons web page, you'll need to go to Settings>About Microsoft Edge and tap the version number of Edge Canary at the very bottom several times to enable Developer Settings (You'll eventually get a message counting down how many more times you need to tap it in order to enable them just like when doing the same thing in Android in general).

In Developer Options, you can install by id from the Microsoft Edge add-ons page by tapping "Extension install by id" and entering the id at the very end of the url for the particular add on you want. For uBlock Origin, for instance, the url is:

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak

and the id is:

odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak

Shortly after doing that, the extension should appear on the list of installed extensions right alongside those that you may have installed the normal way and can be configured from that menu (the browser thankfully does not draw a distinction between how you installed the extension).

For .crx files (I mistakenly called them .cvx files in my previous post), you'll download it directly from the GitHub or wherever the file is being hosted (I hear that you can use some sites to download a .crx from the Chrome store but I haven't tried it yet). Tapping "Extension install by crx" will bring up a button to navigate to wherever you have the file stored on your device and let you install it. It's a pretty straightforward and intuitive process, it's just that most sites that provide a .crx file will often not list the add-on as having support for Edge Canary on Android, but at least some of them should work. You will likely have to look under some section that is not specifically listed as being for mobile, but for Desktop. For LibRedirect, for instance, I had to look under the general Chromium section, that makes no mention of mobile support, but the extension works great on all three of the devices I have tried it on. For Bypass Paywalls Clean, I used "bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean-[version number].crx" and have had no problems with it working.

Keep in mind that on occasion you may need to put your phone into landscape mode to navigate some sort of menu for the extension since it is optimized for desktop. The vast majority of the time, however, I have not had to and the extension options for the latter two look great on mobile. Occasionally some extensions may crash due to the nature of Edge Canary and you will have to reactivate them. It's quick and simple: just open the extensions menu, tap "Manage Extensions", tap the three dots next to the extension that is greyed out and tap the slider next to enable." Then refresh whatever page you were on and everything should be good.

In my experience, the only thing that crashes semi-regularly is uBlock Origin, and that may be due to the business with Manifest v2 going away. It's not so bad that it happens regularly during browsing, just something that seems to have happened on occasion when I go to look something up after not having used the browser recently. The main thing that uBlock Origin is useful for on mobile is getting rid of cookie notices and other annoyances, along with the scant advertisements that a DNS adblocking server can't take care of. The other two aforementioned add-ons seemed to crash a few times after I had first installed them (again, only after coming back to Edge after not using it on my phone) and now do it very rarely. I think it may only happen when Edge Canary gets updated, which just requires about 10 seconds or less to go back into the Extensions menu and reactivate them.

A word of warning: some extensions may cause the Edge browser to crash upon startup because they were made solely for desktop. My dumbass decided to install OneTab, which caused the browser to get stuck in such a crash loop, forcing me to reinstall it and set it up again from scratch.

Don't let this talk of extensions crashing fool you into thinking that it's not worth it. So far, Bypass Paywalls Clean and LibRedirect on Android have been game changers, and uBlock Origin blocking the fucking cookie popups isn't bad either (And being able to watch Prime Video ad free on mobile by visiting the site in the browser and switching from the mobile site to the desktop site). I know that there's a lot of people on the Farms that lament how much people mobile fag nowadays, but there are times where I just need to look up some info quickly on my phone, sit in bed with a tablet reading something, or simply don't have a PC nearby. In such situations, it was always a goddamn hassle to use various sites because of all the popups and cluttered interfaces. Those extensions have brought the mobile experience much more in line with the desktop experience.

 

[Hellwalker]

I tried to switch to Brave recently for like the 7th time and I just can't fucking use it. I don't know why but fucking hell anything Chromium related just sucks dick. My main issue was that YouTube videos wouldn't embed properly on the Farms unless I turned off blocking third party cookies & trackers. Fucking hell if I was going to do that so I was left with blank space wherever a YouTube video is supposed to be. Also the fact that I can't have Brave delete everything on shutdown except for my Kiwi Farms cookies. It was either allow all cookies for all websites or keep re-logging into the Farms every time I opened Brave. This is why I fucking LOVE Librewolf's feature of assigning a specific website to store that sites' cookies. It also sucks to not have a built-in screenshotting tool. That's something that Chromium has been lacking for a fucking long time. I also prefer uBlock Origin over Brave's built-in ad-blocking functionality and would take it any day of the week. Especially since I'm able to selectively block elements of websites that I don't like. Speaking of extensions, Greasemonkey is only available on Firefox and it's way fucking better than any other userscript manager out there for the sole purpose that it does exactly what I fucking need it to do which is to install userscripts and have the ability to back them up and import. It also removes an annoying ass GUI from a useful userscript I use. On Brave, I was stuck with Tampermonkey and some other one that I don't give enough of a shit about to look up its name. Those ones both fucking suck with their unnecessary bullshit. On the topic of unnecessary bullshit, HOLY SHIT IS BRAVE FUCKING FULL OF IT! No! I don't need you to prompt for Wayback Machine archives if a page is 404'd. No! I don't need or want to use your cucked verison of Tor. I can just use the fucking Tor Browser if I need it. NO I DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKING BULLSHIT CRYPTO CURRENCY!!! GET THAT FUCKING SHIT OUT OF MY FACE!!! AND NOOOOO!!!! I DON'T WANT FUCKING BRAVE NEWS YOU FUCKING NIGGERS!!!

Fuck Brave, fuck Chromium, and fuck everyone who shills this piece of shit browser! It's pretty good as a mobile browser, though.