I tried using Firefox recently and one bad page took out the whole browser and went back to Chrome. I should make the change again but Firefox speed and stability is a tradeoff for avoiding Chrome
Yes, it’s Blink without the bits that Google doesn’t share (I wanted to be precise that nobody can compile actual Chrome from public sources, they can build Chromium which is almost but not quite the same)
It does have some weird crypto stuff it promotes/offers after a vanilla install, but you can hide literally all of it. Brave is my daily driver, and looking at my installs you’d never know it had crypto stuff integrated.
Kinda, but it still connects to Google for updates for example, and syncs your browsing data to Google if you login. So it’s really only halfway there.
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I tried using Firefox recently and one bad page took out the whole browser and went back to Chrome. I should make the change again but Firefox speed and stability is a tradeoff for avoiding Chrome
Vivaldi uses the same engine as Chromium, and the company has been founded by ex Opera developers.
Same engine? As in it’s chromium based?
Yes, it’s Blink without the bits that Google doesn’t share (I wanted to be precise that nobody can compile actual Chrome from public sources, they can build Chromium which is almost but not quite the same)
If FF isn’t for you then maybe give Brave a try. It’s basically a de-googled Chrome.
Why are you being down voted? I’ve heard about brave and thought people were generally in favor of it?
Idk, people are weird sometimes. I use FF myself, but I think Brave is a good alternative. Definitely better than using Chrome imo.
Iirc, it has some crypto and nft stuff built in which many ppl hate.
It does have some weird crypto stuff it promotes/offers after a vanilla install, but you can hide literally all of it. Brave is my daily driver, and looking at my installs you’d never know it had crypto stuff integrated.
Isn’t Chromium degoogled Chrome?
Kinda, but it still connects to Google for updates for example, and syncs your browsing data to Google if you login. So it’s really only halfway there.
Ungoogled Chromium is degoogled Chrome, the regular Chromium is just Chrome without (most of?) the proprietary / closed source components