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In 2024, please switch to Firefox (roytanck.com)
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[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Any Alternative to Brave? I have FF as primary browser but for some websites which tends to break on FF, I would like to use something non-Chrome/Brave on Windows.

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Librewolf sounds like Brave, but built on top of Firefox. It also doesn't spam you with stupid ads like Brave does.

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 5 points 10 months ago

But my alt should be Chromium based for the weird cases.

[–] crsu@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Librewolf is better I think. It's pretty much a privacy hardened Firefox with the telemetry taken out. No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No odd crypto scheme like Brave either.

That's a great point

[–] shadowspirit@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

FF is primary but started using Vivaldi as my chromium based browser.. I'm definitely not nerd level privacy geek but it hits all my check boxes for configuration, customization, and ease of use.

[–] Dougtron007@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I keep chromium as a secondary if something breaks on Firefox. It’s the foundation of chrome without all the silly Google shit.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you want ungoogled-chromium

[–] Dougtron007@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks, this is what I’m looking for.

[–] Phrodo_00@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use edge for the edge case when websites don't work after changing the user agent

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 0 points 10 months ago

I have found edge to be more bloaty than brave

[–] Mars@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

If the site breaks on Firefox, probably it only works in chrome based, so I’d say just use ungoogled-chromium.

[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

As far as non-Chrome goes, there's only two other modern browser engines. Webkit which is Apple stuff, and Gecko which is Firefox. So I don't believe so, no.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

What websites break on FF?

[–] RagingToad@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which sites? I haven't had that in years.

(And you can report them to Mozilla and they will fix it by either fixing a bug or creating a workaround for that site)

[–] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago

Top of my Head: Ms Teams.

Also, on side note, FF on Desktop doesn't support PWAs while on Mobile they do.