I use Firefox as my daily driver but sometimes sites just work better on a chromium based browser. I had been using Brave but it seems like they keep adding on more bloat (crypto, VPN, AI) and I’m over it.

What chromium based browser would you recommend and why?

  • mrbubblesort
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    198 months ago

    Honestly none of them. You can have my firefox when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

    • Otter
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      68 months ago

      That’s not what they asked though, they’re already using Firefox and they don’t intend to drop it

      • mrbubblesort
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        28 months ago

        Personally I’m fine with sites not working as well (OP’s issue). If nothing else, I’m incredibly stubborn, so I’d even suffer slow loading and performance that resembles the early 90s if means I don’t have to use anything chromium.

      • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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        18 months ago

        Yeah, but they said some sites work with Chrome, but not Firefox? I’m sure there are some sites (that I presume are badly-coded), but I haven’t encountered any notable examples.

  • aura
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    178 months ago

    none. chromium is a google (-endorsed) product, who put their own little tracking tidbits into the chromium project. if you still want to use a chromium-based browser, i have two ‘suggestions’:

    • brave. renowned in the privacy community but has had a few suspicious moments, and honestly i just don’t trust their whole big-tech thing they got going on.
    • ungoogled-chromium. basically just the chromium browser but without the google shit in it. no extra privacy-advancing features as far as i’m aware though, and extensions don’t seem to work.

    now if you really want a good browser, go for either of the following firefox-like browsers:

    • firefox with arkenfox user.js. firefox as you know and love it, with the arkenfox privacy tinkering. i haven’t tested it and its apparently a bit difficult to install and configure, but i’ve heard its really helpful with privacy.
    • librewolf. a privacy-first firefox fork developed by an independent developer and contributors, no big-tech bullshit. my personal daily driver.

    anyway, sorry for the rant, but there u go.

  • yukichigai
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    158 months ago

    Put in another vote for Vivaldi. It’s definitely lightweight. I’ve got an older server I keep around (for YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE-DEE purposes) and Vivaldi’s the Chromium-based browser that works best on it.

    That said, the default browser I use on that thing is Waterfox Classic. Vivaldi’s lightweight, but it’s not as light as that.

    Another note: a few years ago I would’ve actually been able to recommend Edge because to my surprise it actually worked pretty damn well, especially if you were trying to get sites to get Windows-oriented web-apps to function correctly on Linux. Unfortunately they’ve since pushed several changes that have made it truly obnoxious. Big fat memory hog that tries to load “recommended” content in the background and won’t stop sending to/receiving from sites even after you close the window/tab.

    • @AdventuringAardvarkOP
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      88 months ago

      I also have a server for Linux ISOs. You can never have too many ISOs.

      • yukichigai
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        48 months ago

        You can never have too many ISOs.

        Much like how you can never have too much cilantro.

  • LinkOpensChest.wav
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    138 months ago

    Which sites work better in Chrome? I’m forced to use the Google suite at work, and I do everything within Firefox. Even sites that insist they only work in Chrome have always worked for me merely by switching the user-agent header

      • @RisingSwell@lemmy.world
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        78 months ago

        I had issues with what my work use for online training with Firefox, not often, but occasionally a module will just break. I just use edge in those cases, given its basically chrome anyway.

      • @DeadlineX@lemm.ee
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        18 months ago

        The website i work on has some pages that absolutely don’t work on Firefox. I know this because I often have to switch to chrome to see if the code is broke or the browser isn’t rendering correctly.

  • @0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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    Vivaldi. Why? Highly cuztomizable.

    Though slower than other chromium based browsers.

  • knexcar
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    68 months ago

    I use Chrome! It’s nice how it syncs with my Google profile.

    If I need 2 browsers for some reason, I also use Edge.

  • @impiri@lemm.ee
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    58 months ago

    Arc (Mac-only for now) is pretty great and has been my daily driver for a while now. Lots of great quality-of-life improvements, a great approach to tab management, and new optional AI features that are useful instead of annoying.

    • @theherk@lemmy.world
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      28 months ago

      Not open source and last I checked you had to sign in to use it. Can’t imagine why people would use it.

        • @theherk@lemmy.world
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          38 months ago

          Okay, that’s a hilarious response, but what I meant should have been obvious even if my phrasing was poor. I have trouble understanding why one would believe these features outweigh software freedom.

          • @impiri@lemm.ee
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            28 months ago

            Just giving you a hard time. I prefer FOSS generally, but most of my time on a desktop is spent on the web, and Arc’s tab/space management is far ahead of anything else right now. It genuinely makes my life easier. The UX is thoughtfully designed and cohesive; even if I could get close to this setup with Firefox extensions (and I tried), it would be janky (and it was).

            I’m very much hoping some of Arc’s UX and workflow ideas will be picked up by browsers generally.

            • @theherk@lemmy.world
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              38 months ago

              Thank you for the follow up. Maybe I’ll give it another spin. I’ve been tinkering with floorp but it isn’t polished.

  • @TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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    58 months ago

    I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi last year and never regretted it. I like the ad blocking that it has as standard and the uBlock origin plugin makes it 99% perfect. It’s pretty light weight and the tab stacks work good. No clue if those stacks are chromium or vivaldi, but they work.

  • Presi300
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    48 months ago

    For chromium, brave, though I’d just stick to Firefox it I were you