So far, I’ve been using Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox.
Any others out there?
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I’d say Firefox and its forks (e.g. Librewolf) are the only good options. Almost everything else is Chromium based (including Opera, Edge, Vivaldi, Falkon, etc.), so you’ll get the same performance, and Chromium is developed by Google, so they can do whatever they want with it. One of the consequences will be heavily reduced effectiveness of adblockers due to Google recently changing the way extensions work. Google does this kind of thing constantly. They change whatever they want and disregard the community’s opinion, so I’d say you should probably use a Firefox-based browser.
Firefox and Librewolf. Gotcha.
Firefox for privacy, performance, etc.
Honestly web 1.0 browsers are a meme at this point. You can’t do most things online with them as most websites require some amount of javascript among other modern standards and protocols. Forget looking at your web emails, forget reading the capitalist propaganda ‘news’, forget using social media, forget shopping, forget looking up recipes, forget anything that isn’t an unmaintained angelfire blog rotting in obscurity without updates since 2012. Oh and enjoy lots of being blocked by Google captchas for security since you look like a bot and without JS support you can’t solve such things.
At this point on desktop as far as engines (what really tends to matter and what’s under the hood) there’s either Blink based (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Chromium Browser, etc) or Gecko (Firefox and derivatives) plus Webkit if you’re on a Mac or iDevice I suppose. Everything else is dead or so far behind standards implementation or timely security support as to be unusable, unsafe, or both.
I try to write webapps that run without JS whenever I can, but honestly, it’s getting more and more difficult to meet users’ expectations that way. My latest webapp unfortunately uses Svelte, which I find to be the most tolerable JS framework (very low bar) mostly because it allows me to write a minimal amount of JS. There’s also WASM now, which requires even newer browsers, and it’s being used more and more, so web 1.0 browsers are essentially useless for most tasks and are getting more and more useless every day.
Forget looking at your web emails, forget reading the capitalist propaganda ‘news’, forget using social media, forget shopping
Now that I know this option exists, how do I set it up?
Not too much choices on desktop… so firefox I spose. On android, naked browser pro is really tiny, like 150 kb.
I’ll keep that in mind since I have an Android phone.
Best would be Firefox with uBlock Origin medium mode, and for least resources and barebones experience you can use NetSurf without JS.
Firefox… with uBlock Origin medium mode. Okay, writing that down. NetSurf without JS too. Gotcha.
Okay, I can already tell that Opera is good.
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Modern web is bloated, any browser is gonna consume a lot of resources.
I’d go for firefox with modified security settings or just librewolf.
Any other browsers I should have or try out?
midori /j
luakit? links/links2? w3m?
Wdym?
sorry, was just listing different browsers. The last three are all text based.
Noice.
