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I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

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[–] lars@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use Vivaldi because of it's tab management.

I have it configured to put the tabs in a bar on the right side of the screen. That way you have full tab titles no matter how many you have open.

It's also got a tiling window manager. So you can select two tabs and tell it to split screen them within the single window of Vivaldi. Or select 3, or 4, or whatever and put them in a grid. All sorts of options.

I've got big 4k monitors, so I've grouped up some pinned tabs to always be tiled (like my email and calendar)

It's got lots of other nice tab features and just regular features, but those are the main selling ports for me personally.

[–] BEDE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

plus 1 for Vivaldi. No complaints here.

[–] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yess! Came here to recommend Vivaldi too. I switched from Brave for same reason as OP, and looked at a few options.... Vivaldi won. It's been a couple months and I haven't looked back.

[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The best Chromium browser in terms of compatibility is of course Google Chrome.

The best in terms of privacy is Vivaldi. (and i hate Vivaldi).

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven’t tried Vivaldi. Is it available on Linux?

Edit: Looks like they do with both .deb and .rpm packages. They’re not on Flatpak, but the rpm would work for me on Fedora.

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just saw someone on Mastodon saying they replaced Chrome with Vivaldi, so maybe that?

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi is pretty good. It's my second choice of browser after Firefox

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's Thorium... which is basically "The same thing but with lots of tweaks".

[–] vodkasolution@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'm gonna give it a try, but I'm a bit confused: why are there a public, webview and shell version to download (android)?

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but what did Brave do?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Their latest thing that pushed me to look for a new testing browser is installing a system wide VPN on your computer without your consent.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think there's no good option. Your best bet is probably to run chrome in some sort of temporary vm so there's nothing worth tracking. Maybe there's a docker image with chrome ?

[–] roguemetahuman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I really like Vivaldi for sites that dont like to play well with Firefox.

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does the DDG browser report back to Google?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would assume not, but isn’t that a mobile only browser?

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have a Mac version and a Windows beta, but I don't think there's one for Linux available yet.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I didn’t know that! Awesome! I hope there’s a Linux version soon, then I’ll probably switch to it.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, they report to Bing. It caused a stink when "discovered" by the media, but it is part of their licensing agreement with Microsoft to use Bing results.

Their search is fine, but don't use their browser.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is awesome! Thank you.

Unfortunately, based just on this, Brave seems to be the best, but there's additional stuff in Brave that makes it much less appealing.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

if you use Windows and want to have Chrome, why not just use Edge? It's just conveniently therr, you need nothing to install.

It works with everything that "needs" chrome.

edit: one comment gave me the idea you use Windows but now I'm not sure in it. if not, then sry, ignore this comment :)

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don’t use Windows much, but Edge is available on Mac and Linux. I’m just not a fan of all the “features” they put in it. I’m looking for more of a clean browser experience, if you get what I mean.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think you can't go more clean than Chromium. Pretty sure all browsers based on Chromium has some extra features, since those are the only differences in them. Vivaldi, Brave, Maxthon etc..., the same engine in different car, with different extras.

this is why I usually recommend people to use Edge if they really want Chrome, since on Windows, it's already there. But yeah, on Linux, I wouldn't really tell anyone to apt install edge.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Why not use Chromium then?

[–] YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Tempest browser is basically Brave but without the Crypto stuff. It's still in beta atm so take that as you will.

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I tend to use Falkon, which is developed by the KDE community...

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[–] Its_Always_420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've just been using Edge when Firefox wont open a site. It's installed by default and it's just Chrome under the hood so it works. Plus, after Google's new hostility to ad blocking I refuse to use any Chrome based browser as my default so one is as good as the other to me. They're all just a temporary tool until I go back to using the only real web browser that I can, Mozilla Firefox.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge isn’t installed by default on any of the computers I use, and I’m not a huge fan of all the junk they put in it.

Also I just downloaded it on Mac and it’s a .pkg file, so that really sets off alarm bells.

[–] Its_Always_420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's Chrome, it'll be loaded with trash no matter what. There's no clean version of garbage that you can install.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

100% truth.

[–] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just discovered Thorium the other day.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Now this looks promising! The list of improvements and patches looks really nice.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been using it for a few months now and it's great. Firefox is my main browser but a chromium based one is good to have. Wonder why it asks for my password every now and then but think it's likely auto update stuff.

[–] shogun5000@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Swim@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago