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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)
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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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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. I loved Opera and bailed when they abandoned their engine.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, me too. Never used it since.

So I was glad when Opera co-founder von Tetzchner announced Vivaldi, and I did use it for a couple of years. But I don't want to become dependent on something not completely FLOSS, so lately using mainly Firefox mods like Floorp, Zen and Firedragon.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

My history w/ browsers:

  1. IE - everyone started here
  2. Firefox - switched once I heard about it
  3. Chrome - when it came out, it was fast, which was cool
  4. Opera - switched as soon as I heard about it; was about as fast as Chrome
  5. Firefox - switched when Opera became a Chromium browser

Since I came from old IE days and started my career having to backport stuff to IE, I care a lot about engine competition, because IE owning everything made everything worse. So that's still my #1 concern today, hence why I use Firefox.

I do dabble with Firefox forks though. I use Fennec on my phone, am trying out Mullvad on my laptop, etc. But I'm going to stay within the Gecko-family of browsers until a viable alternative to Blink (Chrome's engine) emerges (e.g. Servo or LadyBird).