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?
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Put in another vote for Vivaldi. It’s definitely lightweight. I’ve got an older server I keep around (for YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE-DEE purposes) and Vivaldi’s the Chromium-based browser that works best on it.
That said, the default browser I use on that thing is Waterfox Classic. Vivaldi’s lightweight, but it’s not as light as that.
Another note: a few years ago I would’ve actually been able to recommend Edge because to my surprise it actually worked pretty damn well, especially if you were trying to get sites to get Windows-oriented web-apps to function correctly on Linux. Unfortunately they’ve since pushed several changes that have made it truly obnoxious. Big fat memory hog that tries to load “recommended” content in the background and won’t stop sending to/receiving from sites even after you close the window/tab.
I also have a server for Linux ISOs. You can never have too many ISOs.
You can never have too many ISOs.
Much like how you can never have too much cilantro.
For chromium, brave, though I’d just stick to Firefox it I were you
Firefox
Just disable the crap and keep using Brave.
I’m in the same boat!
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 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
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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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.
Honestly none of them. You can have my firefox when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
Agreed, comrade. We shall defend firefox and Ublock Origin to the very fucking end.
That’s not what they asked though, they’re already using Firefox and they don’t intend to drop it
Yeah, but they said some sites work with Chrome, but not Firefox? I’m sure there are some sites (that I presume are badly-coded), but I haven’t encountered any notable examples.
Personally I’m fine with sites not working as well (OP’s issue). If nothing else, I’m incredibly stubborn, so I’d even suffer slow loading and performance that resembles the early 90s if means I don’t have to use anything chromium.
I just use Chromium and go through all settings once to disable every function that isn’t “show me the website behind the URL I just typed”. Then I install ublock and switch the default search engine to Qwant.
I do the same thing as well. I still can’t determine the difference between unGoogled Chromium and Chromium, but my assumption is that chromium is closer to unGoogle Chromium than Chrome, and just require some of the default settings to be adjusted…
I just tried out Ungoogled. It doesn’t let you choose Google as search engine, doesn’t come out of the box with the ability to install extensions (which depends on Google’s Chrome Web Store), is missing some options that use Google’s servers if activated, is stripped of all Google design elements (which gives it a very minimalistic look), and has very privacy-oriented defaults.
Which makes it pretty jarring that there’s still a “Google and me” tab in the settings that contains almost no options because everything Google-related was removed.
Thorium, because its fast, lightweight and open-source.
Fast? I wonder which security features they cut out of it.
I don’t care. Nothing is secured in this world anyway.
I use Chrome! It’s nice how it syncs with my Google profile.
If I need 2 browsers for some reason, I also use Edge.
lmao
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!
