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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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[–] jef@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Floorp is a nightmare from my experience, I've tried it about 2 years ago, it was pretty cool but insanely buggy, I've been trying it maybe once every 2 months ever since and it hasn't gotten better IMO, if you customize almost anything in the ui, things will break eventually, and I always get frequent freezes and crashes.

At this point I just use Firefox with Betterfox user.JS and its been great, you get ff updates as fast as they come out since it's not a frok, also has all bloat and telemetry disabled, whenever I try out another browser I just switch back to ff for one reason or another.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if floorp has improved, because people are talking it up lately. My experience a few months ago was like yours, it was very buggy.

[–] jef@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Last I've tried it was about a week ago, it was as I described. FYI I am on a mac, so Linux/windows might be less buggy, not sure.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 3 days ago

I was using the flatpak on Linux.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

I've been using it on Linux for months and have had zero issues. FIrefox, on the other hand, constantly crashes. When it even opens in the first place.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't had many bugs but I'm primarily using it on a MacBook, so maybe it's more stable than on Linux? Though that in itself would also be a bother as I have a Linux desktop that I want to install on, so I'll be looking out for these issues when I do.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm using it on Linux and have had zero issues.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well fingers crossed for me then as I don't really want to spend the time to migrate again!