I use Firefox as my daily driver but sometimes sites just work better on a chromium based browser. I had been using Brave but it seems like they keep adding on more bloat (crypto, VPN, AI) and I’m over it.
What chromium based browser would you recommend and why?
If you want to torture yourself like any good Linux user, you get Ungoogled Chromium.
I have been using ungoogled chromium for a while. I don’t exactly get what you mean by torture.
Adding plugins feels like you’re hacking the matrix’s mainframe
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none. chromium is a google (-endorsed) product, who put their own little tracking tidbits into the chromium project. if you still want to use a chromium-based browser, i have two ‘suggestions’:
- brave. renowned in the privacy community but has had a few suspicious moments, and honestly i just don’t trust their whole big-tech thing they got going on.
- ungoogled-chromium. basically just the chromium browser but without the google shit in it. no extra privacy-advancing features as far as i’m aware though, and extensions don’t seem to work.
now if you really want a good browser, go for either of the following firefox-like browsers:
- firefox with arkenfox user.js. firefox as you know and love it, with the arkenfox privacy tinkering. i haven’t tested it and its apparently a bit difficult to install and configure, but i’ve heard its really helpful with privacy.
- librewolf. a privacy-first firefox fork developed by an independent developer and contributors, no big-tech bullshit. my personal daily driver.
anyway, sorry for the rant, but there u go.
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Which sites work better in Chrome? I’m forced to use the Google suite at work, and I do everything within Firefox. Even sites that insist they only work in Chrome have always worked for me merely by switching the user-agent header
Yes I am very interested to know which websites don’t work.
I had issues with what my work use for online training with Firefox, not often, but occasionally a module will just break. I just use edge in those cases, given its basically chrome anyway.
The website i work on has some pages that absolutely don’t work on Firefox. I know this because I often have to switch to chrome to see if the code is broke or the browser isn’t rendering correctly.
Firefox
Arc (Mac-only for now) is pretty great and has been my daily driver for a while now. Lots of great quality-of-life improvements, a great approach to tab management, and new optional AI features that are useful instead of annoying.
Not open source and last I checked you had to sign in to use it. Can’t imagine why people would use it.
I carefully hid some of the reasons I use it in the parent comment
Okay, that’s a hilarious response, but what I meant should have been obvious even if my phrasing was poor. I have trouble understanding why one would believe these features outweigh software freedom.
Just giving you a hard time. I prefer FOSS generally, but most of my time on a desktop is spent on the web, and Arc’s tab/space management is far ahead of anything else right now. It genuinely makes my life easier. The UX is thoughtfully designed and cohesive; even if I could get close to this setup with Firefox extensions (and I tried), it would be janky (and it was).
I’m very much hoping some of Arc’s UX and workflow ideas will be picked up by browsers generally.
Thank you for the follow up. Maybe I’ll give it another spin. I’ve been tinkering with floorp but it isn’t polished.
Thorium, because its fast, lightweight and open-source.
Fast? I wonder which security features they cut out of it.
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For chromium, brave, though I’d just stick to Firefox it I were you
I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi last year and never regretted it. I like the ad blocking that it has as standard and the uBlock origin plugin makes it 99% perfect. It’s pretty light weight and the tab stacks work good. No clue if those stacks are chromium or vivaldi, but they work.
I don’t use one but I did watch a YouTube video yesterday praising one called thorium. I might give it a try myself out of curiosity.
I switched to Thorium browser, seems pretty good. There’s also Tempest Browser which is still in Beta, but is a bit like Brave but without the Crypto and some other features. I recommend Thorium, tbh. Seems to work well and has a lot of performance patches added, as well as security. More here: https://youtu.be/naDYUVFs1-8?si=eC1CtA4q-oF1L8ix
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chromium
Just native Chromium, or if you don’t want any Google stuff, Ungoogled Chromium. They both use the same UI as Google Chrome. I recommend these because they have no such bloat, and if you want a chromium-based browser for rare usage, it does it’s thing.
On an unrelated note, I use GNOME Web on Linux and Safari on macOS (they are both based on WebKit). GNOME Web has some problems, but I can’t give up the animation of two finger scrolling between pages and smooth scrolling on touchpad. I use Firefox as a fallback browser on Linux, because I have never really needed something that is specifically Chromium.
Vivaldi. Why? Highly cuztomizable.
Though slower than other chromium based browsers.
Sounds unsuitable then
It’s just as a fallback in case a site isn’t tested on firefox and uses some obscure & nonstandard API, so customisable doesn’t matter.
Ungoogled Chromium then.
This, and maybe even opera?
I don’t use chromium, did not test currently.
But I just saw a video about a chromium browser : Thorium.
It’s chromium but with many hardware acceleration, speed, and compatibility enhancements coming from multiple sources and from the guy developing it on github, making it very fast and nicer to use than default chromium.
It has Google sync, so it’s not ungoogled, but it has way less bload and more privacy than chrome.
https://youtu.be/naDYUVFs1-8?si=Rd6Un0OKANEQHktH
The link to the browser website : https://thorium.rocks/
I’m gonna test this out for a couple of weeks. Thanks for letting me know about it!
