If it has to be Chrome (for compatibility reasons), then I’d suggest ungoogled-chromium, which is available from the AUR as the binary package aur/ungoogled-chromium-bin. All of the compat, none of the Google snooping.
I use Falkon as my main & resort to FF/Floorp if & when needed. Why Falkon?
An open source project starting as Qupzilla which is now under the KDE umbrella as Falkon. It’s not based directly on Blink but on QT webengine, which is a stripped-down Blink. I’s snappy, stable, blends in perfectly with KDE Plasma, quite light on system resources, with a handful of extensions (an ad blocker amongst them).
It’s surely missing quite a number of features that some may consider a must-have, but on the other hand it complies with the KISS philosophy of Arch.
- One point of misunderstaning. Falkon as an app is only the front-end of the underlying QT engine. So, not every time that Chromium-based browsers get updated, wiil you see Falkon get updated, too. But its webengine always does.
Does Falkon have an extension interface from the Chrome store? If not, that’s it for me …
Answering indirectly, it is not for you.
Got confused, so, here I am, again. If you meant extensions support from the Chrome store, no, Falkon is not compatible with it.
ok, thx
Brave performs better than ungoogled-chromium
in most privacy tests. still there is something I have not been able to trust about it. It’s like the porous sieve of illusion called Vivaldi. Brave is built leaky and vulnerable just like FF and just like Vivaldi. Except when Brave–if you let it–puts the hammer down, it really puts the hammer down. That’s what I don’t trust.
So I continue with Ungoogled for my Chromium needs and LibreWolf for my FF needs.
You never specified your view on security so I was just giving you mine.
It is easy to ‘hear’ about problems with Brave - but they refer to the past, and mostly not to Brave itself, but the people involved with its development. I have used it for years now, and have experienced no bad things as yet.
Keep in mind that more privacy-involved items (banking etc) get done with Firefox with some ‘enhancements’ in my world, though…
This really depends entirely upon you.
For example, I need Google Translate to work with the microphone, so I installed Chrome and created a web-app shortcut for that example.
I liked vivaldi and would probably use that if I wasn’t happy with Firefox - and right now I’m enjoying Zen, which has a similar feature to Vivaldi (Hide the UI with a keyboard shortcut).
You know how there are people that find Mozilla scummy because they have a deal with Google and use Google Safe Browsing in their browser? There are people that find Brave Software scummy. The idea of having a reward system for curated ads, while you are selling yourself as a private browser, in a world where it has been shown that there is a large interest in tracking for advertising purposes and many companies do it? It can make some feel weird.
Mozilla has done and is doing some dumb shit and is focusing on wrong things(aka not enough on Firefox).
But! To use any Chromium based browser is just stupid! Especially now with forsed V3 shit show that neutered the ad blockers(intentionally I’m sure).
I will Never switch from my customized Firefox!(unless a better browser comes out and not based on Chromium).
No one has mentioned Librewolf. I switched to it coming from Firefox which I switched to coming from Netscape Navigator back in the day.
I mean, many websites do need them to survive. I don’t like the move either, but at the same time, if websites realized that cramping down ads and bullcrap down the user’s throat is not cool, we wouldn’t really be here, in my opinion.
Also, there are websites which break on Firefox, sadly. There aren’t that many, but yeah.
Hehehe. I hear you. For a simpleton like me my fun back then was Yahoo chat. For me that was the wild west of the internet. There was nothing like it, and nothing today compares to it. Of course my youth then could be the reason. After all, this was my heyday…
I should have started a poll
Why? What is driving you? And please dont say “performance”, because I believe performance is not an issue with any browser.
Not to take this topic into another direction. But I have to agree here. When a browser touts its speed or performance, it’s just smoke and mirrors. Sure, Vivaldi may be “faster” than Chrome or Firefox. But we’re talking milliseconds. Not noticeable to the average user. I’d venture to say not noticeable to any user.
There are certain websites that are noticeably slower on Firefox, like YouTube for example, at least from my experience. You can get used to it, though, that’s for sure.