Recommendation of Chrome-based browser?

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Because of a very specific plugin, I am forced to use a Chrome (or Chromium, hopefully) browser. Since I have used FF for over a decade now, I have no idea what would be best. I just know there are tons around.

What would you recommend? Chrome itself? Microsoft Edge from the AUR? :joy:

There should be something better.

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Ungoogled-Chromium, Vivaldi or Brave depending on what you want.

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I use brave-bin and have used the settings from Kuketz as a guide. I’m pretty happy with it

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https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium with https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

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I’m curious which plugin? :magnifying_glass_tilted_left:

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Ungoogled Chromium is my work browser. It has never derailed or failed in any work endeavour (no pun etc). or task.
two cents

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It’s a plugin for language learning, especially Chinese. So a complicated thing, it has to play audio, record audio, show graphics from the Fourier analyis and waveforms and use different and nonstandard fonts for the phonetic alphabet display.

Also to reply to @swh and others: I am not shooting for max privacy / security here.

The browser has to work with the Chrome store to accept the plugin and support the numerous capabilities like smooth graphics display, audio playback and recording.

Whatever gets me there makes me happy. If needed, I use an empty, anonymous account for this to avoid any privacy issues, it just has to work.

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I’d use aur/google-chrome in this case.

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Vivaldi is probably the most compatible option. It focuses on usability over privacy restrictions(while still offering more privacy than Chrome itself offers).

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I value Ungoogled-Chromium for its measurable speed and absence of Google components.

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No ads with Brave.

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https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve | AUR

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I use Vivaldi, I really like it and it’s Chrome based. It’s in the Arch repos and of course Flatpak.

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This looks interesting, but it’s slightly different in scope. Mainly optimized for European languages, but I am looking for something which helps reproducing the tones in a tonal language, which I badly need because I suck at this. The mentioned Chrome plugin is about the best I found so far.

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Go for Vivaldi. It is a good. If you do decide to go with Vivaldi, then please do install the package vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs too.

Let us know how it goes. Which browser you have chosen and why. It would help many.

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i have used Brave and Vivaldi , and i always go back to Brave ,just saying.

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I have tested Vivaldi, and I really like it.

⊕ pros:

  • works seamlessly with the chrome store
  • EU-based HQ
  • with just vivaldi and vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs, plays videos from YouTube and 𝕏.
  • so far, great experience. No issues with videos, audio or recording except for my shitty builtin mic.
  • the lingolingo plugin works 100%, no hiccups.

⊖ cons:

  • Didn’t import my FF data, complained about it being open (which it wasn’t, did killall firefox before).

So far, I am going to use it. Main objective: Switch from FF to Vivaldi in the coming weeks.

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Thanks. I should have read this before I googled all AUR entries for vivaldi :joy:

See also my earlier post for the pros and cons.

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When in Firefox go to bookmarks manager (in Librewolf it is Ctrl+shift+O, so i am assuming it is the same in Firefox ) On the top of the window you will see a drop down option and choose export as HTML. Next you can import the bookmarks in Vivaldi using the HTML option.

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