more as food for thought, im curious if anyone uses alternative browsers; i found zen and recently just came across vivaldi, and i was wondering what people’s experiences are with those, or any others they’ve used!
(funny rabbithole coming across vivaldi since i was reading through One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age, which had an article including Bruce Lawson on the concept of learning HTML/CSS in the past and him making a CSS sheet vastly different from the ones hosted on CSS Zen Garden, which lead me to his site that’s still active even now! to where he lists various articles about the net, and links to vivaldi)
i’m still sticking with firefox (and zen is built on top of it), but in the whole ache to pull away from corpo slop (coughs chrome and google) i’ve just been peeping around other things and was curious what people’s experiences were with alternative browsers
i’m actually currently using Zen as my daily driver-- lowkey its just Arc but much worse imo (its pretty buggy and a energy drain) but i like it enough to continue using it but… may change lol.
i’ve been curious to know if anyone has used offpunk (offline first, command line browser) since it seems interesting
I use LibreWolf, which is a Firefox fork with uBlock Origin installed by default and with a lot of the recent garbage taken off.
I have Resist Fingerprinting turned on, which is an interesting feature, but it also means that certain features will break in some ways. For instance, WebGL is disabled, and image uploading for some sites breaks because it uses the HTML canvas, something that you have to give websites permission to use. Other than those two things, LibreWolf works just fine for the vast majority of my situations.
Also, LibreWolf will clear cookies and data by default. I have cookies set to be cleared, but website data is still saved.
Firefox is still my default browser, but I also use Vivaldi, especially when I need to use a Chromium-based browser for specific purposes. I like Vivaldi for having many customisation options, and having useful features that other Chromium-based browsers lack without installing an extension, such as taking a screenshot of a web page.
I recently switched to Vivaldi because I really just do not like the way Firefox renders things. The only thing I don’t (didn’t) like about it is that it’s not obvious how to turn form autofill off so I had to dig deep to figure it out.
I keep a bunch of alternative browsers installed, but mostly for testing purposes. Even qutebrowser, that uses a fork of Chromium under the hood, can’t run a lot of useful web apps, for example CryptPad. I do use FOSS Browser on Android, which can run CryptPad (with limitations) due to using the operating system’s native web view.
It is a fork of FireFox, and has some legacy features/capabilities still enabled. There’s also tons of themes, so you can get your browser looking like Netscape Navigator again!
I also use LibreWolf like @Melvian with uBlock and NoScript. Ladybird looks interesting - it isn’t released yet but seems like it could become a good choice.
