The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.

Edit: Added link to the Firefox discussion to give better context to my question.

  • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    If you want obscure, I can recommend Lagrange. It can browse only gemini pages though, so you can’t visit your favourite html websites.

    • darksiderbun@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Gemini is so weird and cool! My first day with it really made me want to start a little microblog on it or something

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    2 months ago

    Please don’t bank with a bleeding edge web engine that isn’t forked from one that’s been around for decades. It’s really not secure to use things that people haven’t had time to attack yet.

    • Rando@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They are porting to Linux was just announced not long ago… however dont know how long that will take. I am just gonna keep using FF until I can try Orion.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Yeah; unfortunately on that particular computer, it’s the only modern browser that still functions. I don’t trust it with anything.

        If the question had been “what trustworthy browsers do you use?” I wouldn’t have mentioned it.

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        No real data to backup this claim other than complaints about their addons which can be disabled, and their CEO doesn’t have the best morals and principles. Like we all believe the exact same things everyday all day.

        Multiple highly reputable non profits and other sources show the browser itself performs as one of the best when it comes to privacy. Leave the negativity against Nestle.

  • Beto@lemmy.studio
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    2 months ago

    I use qutebrowser, it’s a keyboard driven browser that uses QtWebEngine (based on Chromium).

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Cromite. it is a very good and private, easy to use browser, but can be heavy on resources https://github.com/uazo/cromite. It uses Chromium engine. There are browsers like Ladybug and there is also an another project that use their own web engine, but anything that doesn’t use the engines you mentoioned, is impossible to daily drive, most of them doesn’t evem support javascript, or any script execution, which means you can only browse the most basic blogs, and forget about shopping, social media, and even forums

  • Imhotep@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    GNOME Web (Epiphany)

    I kind of daily drive it as I made webapps with it for some services I host (which Firefox still doesn’t offer natively)

    The UI is quite nice but it isn’t always the smoothest in terms of performances. Still, a very respectable effort

    • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Epiphany is making headway. It’s gotten much better in the last year or so.

      I can still crash it with too many tabs, JS sometimes makes it crash, and the extension experience is bad, but it’s gotten better.

      It is covered by WebKit call out though.

  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I decided on LibreWolf for work, Mullvad for sensitive search such as places near me, Firefox for random stuff and Tor for piracy sites. I’m currently looking to replace Firefox as well