What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

h3o if its an invitational I imagine there was regional qualifying etc and a pretty exclusive club of heavy hitters by this stage. rock stars of chess. Sad to see it's zoom-like/remote instead of an auditorium full of intense matches but sign of the times. I love playing but not real good at it. Even gnome-chess stomps on me.

brent I don't want to get this thread too off topic but will just say that invitational was more in fun. The two people in the screenshot are chess streamers (one is a GM, the other an IM) and the purpose of the event was just to have their subscribers face-off against each other to see who has the better team/followers lol I only got into chess a few months ago so not that great myself, but still enjoy playing : )

I had some time to check out Brave and Vivaldi today and thought they were both nice browsers. Actually was quite enjoying them, but for some reason I can't get hardware acceleration to perform properly on chromium based browsers. When watching the same video on Brave or Vivaldi compared to Firefox my temps were running 10c to 30c higher. If I can get that sorted out, I'd prob lean toward Vivaldi... or Brave. lol

h3o temps were running 10c to 30c higher

looks like its time for a routine cleanup of your machine's internals( and especially the cpu fans)

h3o I'd prob lean toward Vivaldi

That's an excellent choice. One you'll probably never regret.

WetGeek I so love Vivaldi but am even more conflicted about the blink rendering engine supremacy. Is it a lost battle? Surely, something has to come along to push back against blink? I try to use Firefox from time to time and must say, the containers add-on is superlative.

Anybody else using Opera? I dunno for me its more visually appealing and laid out than other browsers.
Yes I know for some reason its not possible (as far as I know) to change the windows 10ish look to it but for everything else it checks the boxes.

seanragout Yes! I love Opera and use it on everything. So much so that I became the package maintainer for it on Solus.
FYI, I haven't submitted opera-stable 80 at the moment because I can't get it to work without an additional script to install a different version of libffmoeg.so from an external source. It's buildable, but won't launch with the missing codecs.

Harvey thanks! I'll try it again this evening

Brucehankins
That's great, thank you for your work on this

LibreWolf... I guess you could count it as Firefox, but it's like... deGoogled Chrome but deMozilla'd Firefox.

Yandex

Microsoft Edge as primary, with Firefox as secondary.

Vivaldi. Most configurable out of the box (which means I can theme it to match the colors of my channel), has good privacy and security (it has a nice configurable built-in adblocker), and is pretty fast. My only real complaint for Vivaldi is it's not completely open source.

Brave as a backup.

Firefox is shit; owned by facist, far-left, evil, anti-freedom Mozilla. Firefox used to be good, but over the years it has been corporitized and trashed by Mozilla. Mozilla also added hidden telemetry that is not disabled when you "disable" telemetry... and they also added ads to the browser. Adding to this pain is removing features users wanted to keep as well. It's also slower in general than chromium based browsers.
I would prefer to see all linux distros not include a browser and just simply make a GUI where users could pick an alternative of their choice.

Opera is now owned by a Chinese company and is basically spyware. I do use Opera GX on Windows 10, but only because I can cap resource usage whenever I stream (my internet sucks, so the bandwidth limit in Opera GX is nice). The original CEO left Opera and eventually went on to make Vivaldi.

Chrome and Edge are also spyware. Both of these are owned by big tech companies who make lots of money off of data harvesting.

I like Epiphany as a lightweight browser (which fits right in with the Gnome/Budgie stack, unlike Falkon), but it's not in the repos anymore?

FanboyStudios no more epipany in Solus. I miss it too. Flatpak has Epiphany/Eolie/Midori (the same gnome variation trilogy) but not configurable (themes) like Solus had.

FF out of the box: agree with you.
FF hardened: could not disagree with you more. you can harden that thing where nothing dials out and all the garbage disabled. May take some about:config time, but very doable if one is eager. You can make it better than libre wolf, pale horse, whatever forks...
Falkon not bad but brings too much kde stuff in for my tastes.
As for your conclusion about MS and Google browers, it goes without saying

FanboyStudios I would prefer to see all linux distros not include a browser and just simply make a GUI where users could pick an alternative of their choice.

You're totally right. I'd rather choose the best option. But maybe your Mozilla opinion is excessive although It's not the best browser option so far. I'm going to change my main browser to Vivaldi. You convince me, guys!!

brent

Perhaps theming flatpaks may be possible with Kvantum?

I hate KDE also. I've been distrohopping on a spare drive this past week or so. With distros running KDE, I'm able to easily run into bugs and get crashes just setting it up how I "kinda" want it.
Budgie IMHO is where it's at. Stable, and customizable enough to my liking.

Firefox is just something I'll avoid because it's slower than chromium... and Mozilla is evil.
If Mozilla changes (quits being an evil far-left communistic company, stops getting in bed with Google, brings back features users loved, etc.), then I might reconsider using it... as a backup browser.
Vivaldi works great for me (the company hasn't gone woke, the browser looks exactly how I want it, etc.), in addition to the multiple layers of tracking protection I use (PiHole with my own custom-made massive blocklist).