The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
Edit: Added link to the Firefox discussion to give better context to my question.
I’m going to stick with some form of Firefox fork, personally. Chromium forks are questionable, as if I recall right they include a binary blob provided by google, which could be hiding god knows what.
Firefox is fully open source, so any code supporting this potential data harvesting can’t hide, and will be removed by most forks.
I used librewolf until there was some concern about them updating in a timely manner.
Now I used Firefox with Phoenix to maybe get the best of both worlds and IronFox on mobile.
with the recent news of a ToS from FF which forks would you recommend as a daily driver to replace FF?
Librewolf has been solid for me. I’ve seen others plug waterfox as well
Mullvad Browser is a good one; it’s a partnership between Mullvad and the Tor Project.
If you want obscure, I can recommend Lagrange. It can browse only gemini pages though, so you can’t visit your favourite html websites.
Gemini is so weird and cool! My first day with it really made me want to start a little microblog on it or something
Zen
Cannot wait to try Ladybird in a somewhat stable form.
Reminds me to check out lynx again.
Please don’t bank with a bleeding edge web engine that isn’t forked from one that’s been around for decades. It’s really not secure to use things that people haven’t had time to attack yet.
I’m really hoping the new ladybird browser is delivered sooner than expected
Fennec (Firefox based)
I don’t know if Librewolf counts as obscure enough but Mozilla’s decisions on things as of late have been very questionable. It’s probably not enough to just use Librewolf but it’s a start…
Falkon for clearweb Librewolf for Tor Netsurf for i2p
Isn’t accessing TOR network from any other browser than Tor Browser a serious anonymity risk?
Mayhaps. I shall investigate.
GNOME Web (Epiphany)
I kind of daily drive it as I made webapps with it for some services I host (which Firefox still doesn’t offer natively)
The UI is quite nice but it isn’t always the smoothest in terms of performances. Still, a very respectable effort
Epiphany is making headway. It’s gotten much better in the last year or so.
I can still crash it with too many tabs, JS sometimes makes it crash, and the extension experience is bad, but it’s gotten better.
It is covered by WebKit call out though.
Iceraven, it let’s me install desktop firefox extensions on android.
Librewolf on desktop and ironfox on mobile. The prior for over a year and the latter a few months. Occasionally need to use something else on desktop that needs webgl or similar. I don’t want to change librewolf setting so I use something else. Usually a work related thing anyway
seamonkey but it’s pretty hard to use without much love nowadays with so many incompatible websites. It’s a perfect mail client tho.
Just get Firefox ESR with arkenfox, that should be enough.
Lynx.
If I don’t need image or video content, it’s great.
