Mozilla Firefox alternatives to check out:
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And perhaps https://waterfox.com
@folfdk @simonjust I also need to change away from FF.
I was trying to figure out Waterfox, but it's very secretive about its governance and community. It seems to be run by mostly just 1 person who's active on Hackernews and LinkedIn. Which might be fine for a small software library, but a bit questionable for a full browser.
LibreWolf is in start contrast to that, looks much more like a flourishing community.
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Mozilla Firefox alternatives to check out:
Librewolf: https://librewolf.net
Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com
Floorp: https://floorp.app@simonjust Er vi kun glade for noget, der er forket fra Firefox, og ikke Chromium?
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Mozilla Firefox alternatives to check out:
Librewolf: https://librewolf.net
Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com
Floorp: https://floorp.app@simonjust Good suggestions. Zen Browser seems decent too? But the most privacy-centric of those seems to be Librewolf, and I like that.
Also looking forward to trying out Ladybird and Servo.
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@simonjust Er vi kun glade for noget, der er forket fra Firefox, og ikke Chromium?
@tokeriis @simonjust Det synes jeg. Man understøtter Googles omfattende browser-monopol ved at vælge en Chromium-baseret browser.
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@tokeriis @simonjust Det synes jeg. Man understøtter Googles omfattende browser-monopol ved at vælge en Chromium-baseret browser.
@tokeriis @simonjust Men der er også Servo og Ladybird på vej, og så er der selvfølgelig de Webkit-baserede, som GNOME Web (tidligere Epihany) og Safari.
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@tokeriis @simonjust Men der er også Servo og Ladybird på vej, og så er der selvfølgelig de Webkit-baserede, som GNOME Web (tidligere Epihany) og Safari.
@marcusxms @simonjust I princippet er jeg enig. Jeg ville elske, hvis ikke det var Google der drev de facto standarderne gennem deres semi-monopol.
Man kan selvfølgelig diskutere, om man ikke hjælper Googles browsermonopol ved at forke Firefox, som i forvejen har en lille markedsandel?
PS Orion fra Kagi er også webkit-baseret.
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@folfdk @simonjust I also need to change away from FF.
I was trying to figure out Waterfox, but it's very secretive about its governance and community. It seems to be run by mostly just 1 person who's active on Hackernews and LinkedIn. Which might be fine for a small software library, but a bit questionable for a full browser.
LibreWolf is in start contrast to that, looks much more like a flourishing community.
That's a good point Benjamin, I was looking for Android alternatives and librewolf is only desktop so far if I understand correctly?
Hadn't looked at governance
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Mozilla Firefox alternatives to check out:
Librewolf: https://librewolf.net
Vivaldi: https://vivaldi.com
Floorp: https://floorp.app@simonjust I have been testing Falkon https://falkon.org recently—it is usable, but not without problems. I miss some of the plugins that were available in FF. After playing videos, I often find that the CPU load maxes out for several seconds and the machine is unresponsive (it's a small laptop with limited resources). I find that it crashes more often than FF, but not so often that it's impossible to use.
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That's a good point Benjamin, I was looking for Android alternatives and librewolf is only desktop so far if I understand correctly?
Hadn't looked at governance
@folfdk @benjaoming @simonjust I'm keeping Firefox for now. I'm not convinced any of the other projects have the capacity to work on a *full* web browser. It helps to run Firefox ESR (extended support release) as the less nice features haven't landed there yet.
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@simonjust Er vi kun glade for noget, der er forket fra Firefox, og ikke Chromium?
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@simonjust I have been testing Falkon https://falkon.org recently—it is usable, but not without problems. I miss some of the plugins that were available in FF. After playing videos, I often find that the CPU load maxes out for several seconds and the machine is unresponsive (it's a small laptop with limited resources). I find that it crashes more often than FF, but not so often that it's impossible to use.
@MrManor Yes, that is sadly my experience with Falkon too. But it has been a while since I tried it, so I'll give it another try.
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@MrManor Yes, that is sadly my experience with Falkon too. But it has been a while since I tried it, so I'll give it another try.
@simonjust @MrManor I've started dipping my toes in LibreWolf. Not horrible so far.
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@simonjust @MrManor I've started dipping my toes in LibreWolf. Not horrible so far.
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@simonjust @saustrup Yes, I have the same impression. It feels lighter on a labtop with limited resources like mine. However, I'm not sure if that's just because it's Qt-based and I'm running KDE anyway, so maybe they share some resources.
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@simonjust @MrManor Also stumbled across this, which might make it even faster, more secure or whatever, based on what configuration file you pick: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox
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@simonjust @saustrup Yes, I have the same impression. It feels lighter on a labtop with limited resources like mine. However, I'm not sure if that's just because it's Qt-based and I'm running KDE anyway, so maybe they share some resources.
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@simonjust @MrManor Also stumbled across this, which might make it even faster, more secure or whatever, based on what configuration file you pick: https://github.com/yokoffing/BetterFox
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@simonjust @MrManor @saustrup
Librewolf it not based on qt or kde, it is same ui library as firefox. It may be faster because they removed/disabled some of the bloat.I use librewolf too, on kde, and zenbrowser, which is another great firefox based browser
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@simonjust @pmakholm Nå ja, det overså jeg, my bad!
Så vil jeg også anbefale Helium: https://helium.computer
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@folfdk @benjaoming @simonjust I'm keeping Firefox for now. I'm not convinced any of the other projects have the capacity to work on a *full* web browser. It helps to run Firefox ESR (extended support release) as the less nice features haven't landed there yet.
@reynir @folfdk @simonjust I was hoping a major Linux distro would form an opinion and figure out which replacement of Firefox to go for.
