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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

So what do we do ? Go to Chromium & expand it's monopoly ?

FF forks like LibreWolf, IronFox, WaterFox etc... have to become their own thing via Servo, at least until we get LadyBird.

There's Seamonkey as well; which is an entire suite of apps bundled with a browser (Email, RSS, IRC etc..)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could always use a WebKit-based browser. They’re still out there, and as they aren’t owned by a company that also sells web ads they are significantly more privacy focussed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

& they are ? BTW, Who disliked your non-controversial comment ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The main browser to use WebKit these days is Safari. You’ll find that on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. I’m guessing that would be why someone downvoted me (some people have strong feelings about Apple, even though WebKit is Open Source and is very highly privacy focussed).

I had thought there were more options out there outside the Apple ecosystem, but it seems many of the browsers I once knew were using WebKit moved at some point to Blink (like Maxthon and Slepnir). The Gnome Epiphany browser for Linux however is built atop WebKit.

There are others, but you’re not likely (or able) to use them on desktop systems. PlayStation’s Orbis OS for the PS4 and PS5 uses WebKit as its underlying browser engine, for example. And there is WPE that is intended for use in embedded system environments (like for digital signage).

I did think there were more options out there (there once was!), but it seems a bunch of them moved to Blink when I wasn’t looking!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I used basilisk for a short while. Very minimal browser, indeed.

But it's chromium, so you do you. I personally favour anything that doesn't bloat me. Early on I used opera back on a j2me device, there was also a browser with a nice data saving feature, I had access to all cricket news and cricket sport teams because it was heaviliy featured there, there was a squirrel as a logo but it's all I remember.

Edit it was ucbrowser