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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 3 days ago by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Opera was so good. Disable images, force custom CSS, gestures! Stuff no one else had at the time.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

And it has some options to interpret data following strict W3C standards. Which was incredibly helpful when learning, as it encouraged me (and a lot of others) to don't go down the IE/Netscape and later Chrome "specialities" road. (Yes,I am that old....I still remember MS fucking FrontPage)

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago

User agent spoofing, tabs back when nobody had them, sidebar...

[–] wfh@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

gestures!

Still the reason that 20+ years later the second thing I install on any browser is a gestures extension (the first one is always uBlock Origin, obviously).