Any good alternatives to browsers?
Any good alternatives to browsers?
I've just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.
Any good alternatives to browsers?
I've just been looking for a replacement for Firefox Beta.
You're probably gonna have to tell us what it is that you want and what it is that you don't like about Firefox Beta.
Firefox non-beta
Mull is a Firefox hardened browser that works perfectly out of the box.
I find Kiwi Browser essential. It's one of the only ones that you can install chrome extensions onto.
I believe that's an outdated Github link. The project moved here with releases here. The search engine stuff has always seemed like a non-issue to me. I run both Fennec and Kiwi but the latter gives me a true black UI and support for fully side-loaded addons (not just those already on the Firefox website).
Thanks for your desktop addon guide. If there's a way to manually install .xpis from, say, github, I'm in! 👍
Using Kiwi because it supports Twitter control panel and old reddit redirect extensions.
Well, kiwibrowser/src isn't updated because kiwibrowser/src.next is the actual up-to-date Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Next is similar to a beta version, and releases for Kiwi Browser are based on Kiwi Next. You can just compile Kiwi Next if you are paranoid. It's the best Android Chromium browser.
The whole search engine debacle was unnecessary, and that basically killed Kiwi's reputation even though it really had zero impact on anyone or anything. I mean, if the default search engine is something you don't prefer, it's just a few goddamn presses to change it to whatever you want.
Well. Thanks for the info. Uninstalling
Edit: I added few add-ons to my collection.but I'm unable to add it to my Android. What could be the issue?
What kind of features are you looking for? I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary mobile browser for a while now and have been very happy with it.
Librewolf on desktop, Mull on android, doesnt matter on iOS
Iceraven. Its based on Firefox. I don't like some of the UX peculiarities of Firefox but it works alright.
Ohh will check it out. it seems to fit my bill a bit.
What's wrong with FF beta?
Ungoogled chromium on desktop, Bromite on android
Don't forget that the browser has access to all of the data that you see on your display and everything you type in. All of it. So he careful who you trust. Is it a community software, is it non-profit, is it for profit, does it have a sustainable funding / business model.
Even though I'm quite eager to try new softwares, for browser I usually return back to Firefox or brave browser.
Only recently when I tried Vivaldi browser, I don't feel the urge to return to Firefox/brave.
IMO Samsung Internet is one of the best Android browsers out there. Give it a try!
I think it offers alot of great features if you use a samsung phone. However the adblockers are not as good as ublock on firefox!
Therfeore I use both!!
iceraven
I think brave is pretty alright. Yes the crypto stuff is hella cringe and its chromium based but it works like charm.
I use normal firefox and firefox clear/klar as the default browser(I really like firefox clear)
It's not just for Samsung phones, it works perfectly on my Pixel and Razer Phone as well. The Adblocking is okay but the design + the dark mode for all websites is the killer feature for me.
Brave is one of the only browsers on android that does decent ad blocking, but it's chrome based so it also works reasonably well on mobile sites expecting chrome.
It's worth knowing there are also a number of Firefox based browsers that have full extension support, and even the base Firefox app supports a couple extensions including ublock origin, so Firefox based browsers will also do extremely well with ad blocking :)
but agreed, websites definitely don't test Firefox as much as they should though, so you do sometimes need to switch to something chromium based if you want a browser with Mozilla's web engine instead of Google's
But then they do stuff like this
I like Brave on my Android phone, too. I use the browser and its search engine (which is OK, DDG and Bing gets me better / different results).
What's wrong with Firefox???
Mostly can't sign in to lemmy.world for some reason but otherwise I'd some change for a bit.
I don't believe that's a Firefox issue, unless it's a problem specifically with the beta.
I've signed in a few times to lemmy.world using Firefox over the last week.
Sorry for being the annoying "not for me" guy. ;-)
That's odd; I could sign in with lemmy.dbzer0.com without issue.
Maybe it's an issue with the beta? Have you tried regular FireFox?
Maybe try Jerboa for Lemmy?