Preferably on Windows and Linux. I have Brave, and Tor already, would you reccomend Chromium?

  • Bilb!
    28•3 years ago

    You don’t state why you’re looking for an alternative. What are you trying to remedy by avoiding using Firefox?

  • @Milo@lemmy.ml
    12•3 years ago

    Use multiple browsers… Chromium for google services if you must, Tor for everything anonymous that does not require captcha, IceCat for any additional resource intensive tasks like video calls, and for the rest use free browser like Epiphany, Midori or Falkon.

    But as you asked for Windows there is not many open source browsers so you have to blindly trust anyone like Edge, Opera, Chrome, Vivaldi, other chromium forks… If you choose to use these proprietary browsers you might want to use something overseas (in example if you are American use Yandex browser) instead local ones so the data they gather is less likely used against you, however it might be sold as less anonymized depending on origin, who knows. Also if you use a proprietary browser I would not do anything deeply personal or political or even visit forums like Lemmy.

  • @Altervein91@lemmy.ml
    9•3 years ago

    GNU icecat (based on Firefox ESR)

    Some people say the latest version is outdated and very old. Thats not true, in Parabola GNU/Linux-libre i have icecat-78.7.0-1

    • @aiden@lemmy.ml
      1•3 years ago

      Problem is that latest Icecat build from the official site is 60.7.0. To have the latest version on Windows you must install it through chocolatey (and it isn’t an official build). On Linux if your distribution doesn’t package it, I guess solutions like Nix exists… ?

  • [deleted]
    8•3 years ago

    All other browsers will either be based on Firefox or Chromium. For those based on Firefox, there’s Waterfox and Fennec (Android). For those based on Chromium, there’s DeGoogled Chromium and Brave, but personally I would look through Brave’s settings to disabled any stuff I don’t need such as the cyrpto stuff.

  • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlM
    4•3 years ago

    Is Servo ready for prime time yet?

    Mozilla is still involved in it, along with Samsung, so whether you see it as an alternative depends on whether you dislike the browser itself or the organization.

    • Mark
      4•3 years ago

      It’s usable, but not secure enough, so don’t use it for banking.

  • @Nevar@lemmy.ml
    3•3 years ago

    KDE Falcon and Midori are somewhat up to date alternatives. I use chromium where i can.

    • Tanka
      0•3 years ago

      what he is saying. To quote the user MiscreantMuse:

      "For anyone who isn’t aware, Brave Browser is run by a terrible person .

      It is also funded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire ‘conservative nationalist’ financing Facebook, Palantir Technologies, and the most egregious fascists in the Republican Party."

      source

      • @rep@lemmy.ml
        1•3 years ago

        Aside from all this, Brave isn’t a bad browser, it has adblock in it, a torrent client.
        The only bad feature it has (from privacy POV) is Brave Rewards.
        From what I know there is browser forked from brave called Dissenter which doesn’t have rewards and also has website rating system, where you can leave or check feedback about websites.