My former self would not believe this but I am looking forward to trying out the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge, to be ported to Linux if my sources are correct. It's the lightest and fastest chromium browser I've seen so far. If you must browser Google biased websites (such as the online documentation for many Google developer services, Youtube and Gmails) it's much faster than Firefox.

    [deleted] Are you implying that Edge is not being respectful of one's privacy, hence that it's not a good browser? 😃 Anyone who's not been living under a rock for the past 15 years knows that the only way of safeguarding one's privacy above anything else should use only Opera or Firefox with the appropriate extensions and tweaks. This does not mean that there is no value in developping web browsers which, on other account than just privacy, such as speed, do exceptionnally well (admittedly I am yet to see benchmarks to substantiate this claim, but my personal experience is that Edge Chromium has no rival in speed).

    olivir Very interesting software. Does it impact performances somehow? I see that it requires channelling all traffic via a static IP, so it would require a middleware for routing right?

      Nycticorax It's a good software, extra light. I installed it on a raspberry pi 2, I can't see the impact on this low-spec machine. In contrast it's efficient for my home network. Particularly for smartphone users connected to my wifi. Those devices are sh*thole full of trackers. Pi-hole blocks a lot.

      a month later

      mattdamon Well, if Mark Watney Matt Damon, the man that survived on Mars, uses Chrome then clearly everyone else should too. Case closed 😛

      2 months later

      Okay, so I just came back to say this to all people I told Firefox was the best in town. It's really not. I had to code and/or test several relatively JS intensive web apps recently and any chromium browser just demolished Firefox in terms of responsiveness and fluidity. The performance differences don't really show up in the few benchmarks I've conducted but this is mainly due to the fact that the differences are about the way Firefox runs JS (which functions call it prioritizes and how it deals with small segments of code) rather than about the total duration of parsing and interpreting JS. Me =>>> Opera.

        Firefox.

        I quite like Epiphany/Gnome Web, it has some nice features like saving a web page as a 'desktop application' (of course, native applications are far superior, but not always available) but it seems to struggle with some websites so I can't really use it for the bulk of my browsing. I'm not really a fan of GTK HeaderBars either.

        So mostly Firefox but with some Epiphany 'desktop applications' 😁

        Nycticorax I've been walking back from Firefox as well and using Brave more. It works well on all of my devices and I appreciate the focus on security and privacy (though I've read some people may know more than me on these notes). If Opera was still a Norwegian company, I'd use it again. Their security is still good.

        Unfortunately, when it comes to sensitive operations, like banking, CRA/IRS, etc, they only accept Firefox, Chrome, etc.
        Same with Netflix.

          Currently, we can have several profiles for different tasks. This is what I do with firefox and brave, email profile, shopping profile, streaming profile etc. With specific addons and parameters in each one. It works very well and avoids mixing everything up. Only firefox is not very user-friendly with its profile management, which is not accessible from the toolbar. Brave is doing very well, several profiles for different shopping sites, streaming profile with the windscribe vpn addon (I find chromium is more efficient for streaming).

          elfprince Unfortunately, when it comes to sensitive operations, like banking, CRA/IRS, etc, they only accept Firefox, Chrome, etc.
          Same with Netflix.

          That seems strange to me. I use Vivaldi for banking, stock brokerage, Netflix, BritBox, Disney+ and much more. It's what powers my streaming machine. It's even better than I expected.

          For a long time I'd used two different browsers (Firefox and Opera), in two separate workspaces on my Windows laptop, each with assigned tasks. It used to be Firefox for news, Twitter, broker, and banking, and Opera for ad hoc browsing (motorcycle racing, soccer, F1 and such).

          Turns out, when one starts Vivaldi, it not only remembers the sites from the last session, but even remembers the workspace where it was last started. Thus, when last used in workspace 2, for example, it restarts with the tabs that were previously open in workspace 2. When restarted in workspace 3, it remembers the tabs that were last open in workspace 3. I don't know if that's by design, but it works that way for me.

          Formerly I used Opera because I found its "speed dial" feature very useful. Recently, I've discovered that Vivaldi offers that as well. These days I have even less reason to use any other browser.

          In my experience, most browsers simply change to the instance that's already open when started a second time. Given this useful characteristic of Vivaldi, I no longer need to use two different browsers, but just two instances of Vivaldi. And I totally eschew Chrome, because Google already has plenty of personal information about me. They don't need any more.

            I've actually transitioned to Vivaldi amazingly. As some may know I've been a Chrome fanboy since their first testing releases all those years ago. I'm enjoying Vivaldi now that I've got it tweaked a bit!

              elfprince

              Sorry, I've never thought to check that. Vivaldi is an extension of Chromium, as is Opera and so many others, if that gives you a clue. And thanks to this forum for introducing me to Vivaldi. It's now the only browser I need, whether on Linux machines or on my Windows laptop.