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.

  • unlogic@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    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

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
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    15 days ago

    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.

  • No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I’ve been using IronFox on mobile since Mull went away, but I’m ready to hear why that’s a bad option from anyone who knows better.

    So far its worked very similarly to Mull, in that I’ve had no issues with it so far. I don’t do banking or financial shit on my phone though, so I can’t comment on how well it works for that functionality.

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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        14 days ago

        No real data to backup this claim other than complaints about their addons which can be disabled, and their CEO doesn’t have the best morals and principles. Like we all believe the exact same things everyday all day.

        Multiple highly reputable non profits and other sources show the browser itself performs as one of the best when it comes to privacy. Leave the negativity against Nestle.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        15 days ago

        Yeah; unfortunately on that particular computer, it’s the only modern browser that still functions. I don’t trust it with anything.

        If the question had been “what trustworthy browsers do you use?” I wouldn’t have mentioned it.

    • Rando@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 days ago

      They are porting to Linux was just announced not long ago… however dont know how long that will take. I am just gonna keep using FF until I can try Orion.

  • Beto@lemmy.studio
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    15 days ago

    I use qutebrowser, it’s a keyboard driven browser that uses QtWebEngine (based on Chromium).

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Cromite. it is a very good and private, easy to use browser, but can be heavy on resources https://github.com/uazo/cromite. It uses Chromium engine. There are browsers like Ladybug and there is also an another project that use their own web engine, but anything that doesn’t use the engines you mentoioned, is impossible to daily drive, most of them doesn’t evem support javascript, or any script execution, which means you can only browse the most basic blogs, and forget about shopping, social media, and even forums