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Oh man, I wrote this test a looooong time ago. This is a bad test, and only really measure perf of drawImage. And it doesn't take into account composition & co. Please ignore (not much optimized for layers and stuff). Better version: http://jsbin.com/xiduxerayo/1/

Sorry...

The Tor Browser is probably the best privacy-friendly browser available. It's basically Firefox but with a set of privacy-protecting patches. And it uses Tor properly.

>mostly looking at their aesthetics

?

Aesthetics doesn't really define a browser's success. Vivaldi is successful because it's made by the former CEO of Opera, before Opera went to shit, and the company actually listens to what the users want and adds features based on that feedback. ( http://www.softerviews.org/vivaldi.html#TopFeatureRequests )

Opera is also horrible for privacy and selling your data (and the parent company has predatory loan apps in Africa). Vivaldi doesn't: https://vivaldi.com/zerotracking/

If you want to get into features, well, Opera doesn't have tab stacking, it's UI customization is extremely limited in terms of both themes and tab/address bar/etc placement (or hiding the UI completely). The side panel, from what I've seen, is a lot less powerful than Vivaldi's (no built in notes, no mail/calendar/rss client, and iirc no ability to natively add any website you want.) It has a very robust settings page where you can tweak way more than you can with opera.

Install Edge Beta or Edge Canary instead of Stable Edge on your Phone. These versions of Edge are much better than the stable one on Mobile and Tablet devices, stick with the stable Edge on your Windows Machine.

Though I'm afraid the testing channels aren't available for iOS devices.

Edge Canary for Android

Other than this Firefox works well.

There is also a portable version of Firefox: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Vivaldi and Opera also have official portable and auto-updating versions but not sure if these are privacy-respecting enough for you (as you mention ungoogled-chromium)

this title/articale title is so confusing, typically a waring is an alert for something bad, not good like encryption.

Also this article is misleading. >But countless Web pages aren't offered over a secure connection, including Wikipedia, Instagram, Craigslist, Imgur, China Daily, CNN and Amazon product pages. Indeed, 55 percent of the Web's top million sites don't offer encryption, according to 2014 analysis

I know for a fact that Wikipeda has 128 encryption, https://www.wikipedia.org/

Performance is more or less the same across the board these days, even Internet Explorer is blazing fast. The real difference lies in user interface and features, which in my book makes Opera the superior browser (at least of the big 5).

If you want to use Web Of Trust, it looks like you're limited to the big 5 and their derivatives. Opera is worth a try, as is Sleipnir. Pale Moon is an option if you are mostly happy with Firefox but miss the old interface.

Vivaldi is not owned by China. Opera is Chinese. Vivaldi is Norwegian.

Go with Vivaldi+uBlock Origin if you mind trackers and other annoyences. Plus, Vivaldi has a lot of customization options.

>Sidebar with ability to open collapsable windows of apps

This is being worked on, check. Idk when it will be officially released through.

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>Downloads manager collapsed in the top bar instead of a big bar at the bottom of the page

I suppose you can't change how this works, unfortunately.

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>Pop out videos as their own separate windows that are always on top

This is called Picture-in-Picture (or PiP). You can right click a video and enable it from there (pages like Youtube have their own context menu for right click, so you need to right click twice).

Or you can open the global media controls (the button that appears whenever audio is being played on the browser) and click in the two rectangles button from there.

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>Something to replicate the functionality of Opera Flow

Pushbullet. It allows to quickly send files or text between devices and some extra stuff which I don't use.

Try using User Agent Switcher. As long as the site doesn't use any OS specific plugins or extensions it should work fine.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0

That is a user agent for Firefox 7 on Windows 7 32bit.

It depends who you are I guess. Do you want a browser with the chromium or gecko engines? Prefer customisation... go with Firefox.

Both are good for privacy, but if you want maximum security and not just stopping companies form tracking you go with Firefox and follow the tweaks from here here . If you don’t want to mess with internal settings then use Brave. Both are good browsers and better than chrome.

Hmm - to answer my own gripe:

This plugin

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/

lets me enable plugins that claim not to be compatible with the current firefox.

Try Vivaldi and no harm done. Vivaldi is good for privacy no matter how much non-Vivaldi users will try to tell you. They are very transparent about the data that is being exchanged (link below). Plus when you have all sorts of features built in, you have to rely on the trustworthiness of fewer third parties that provide extensions you may need.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/decoding-network-activity-in-vivaldi/

I would say Vivaldi is better than Brave, because the company that owns Brave and the CEO are not really trustable and they already did have some bad remarks such is involving in Bigotry, inserting partner's link in address bar and so. Vivaldi is closed source but the browser is amazing and it's packed with so many features, and the base source code is available for Vivaldi excapt their UI. Brave is also into cryptocurrency and they have their annoying system called "Brave Rewards" for advertisements.

Chrome started hiding the http:// last year, and it brought up all the same complaints at the time:

http://mashable.com/2010/04/19/google-chrome-ditches-http/

As far as I can tell, everyone got used to it pretty quickly since it makes no real difference in actually using the browser, once some edge cases around copy/paste and editing were solved.

(Chrome also hides the trailing slash in the same cases that Firefox will.)

Its a really great browser in my opinion. I’ve been using brave and firefox and trying to compare the two and I’d say brave is a lot faster but its lacking some features from firefox. I wish it had a good reader mode, I really miss the ability to play a video as a separate little window, and I like the screenshot options on firefox. I decided to turn off the brave rewards and the brave ads because I really don’t like the browser itself recommending ads. It really fast while still being private and that’s the main benefit to it over other browsers. Its fast chromium with more privacy than basic firefox. I also like the fact that it blocks fingerprinting better than firefox which I found out here. Overall, I’d say its the best or if not one of the best browsers you could use today.

AdNauseum - It clicks ads for you but does not show them. There is a research paper published by the authors which explains their obfuscation process, but I can't seem to find it. The add-on was banned on the google web store, but it is still there on Firefox.

https://adnauseam.io/

For starters, Chromium will connect to google on start if you have any extensions installed which would be nice if someone could check to confirm that it happens with externally-installed extensions.

Not sure if they use hosts to do it, but Opera comes with a built-in ad blocker. Firefox blocks most ads if you enable tracking protection.

And of course, you can manually edit your hosts file, if you want system-wide ad blocking.

I would recommend Vivaldi, its customozability is almost endless, it has built-in adblock and tracking protection, it's fast most of the time and it supports extensions from Chrome Store as well. I would also say that their privacy policy is decent.

I don't really know how to fix the problem, but why not give Opera a chance as your default browser? There's an extension that allows you to install Chrome extensions. They're basically the same browser, and as a bonus Opera software isn't a known target of the NSA like Google is.

One of the lightest web browsers in terms of RAM usage are: K-Meleon or Otter Browser (ignoring the old ones such as NetSurf, Dillo or Links).

On Windows try K-Meleon, this is the most lightweight modern web browser. You can also try Otter Browser, which is based on WebKit, so it's more lightweight than Blink.

I've used it previously, but it seems to have changed a lot since then.

What it used to be was an extension that blocked third-party connections (hence the name "Disconnect"), which would stop many attempts to track your web browsing, with the nice bonus effects of blocking most advertising and making most websites faster to load.

What it is now though... An extension that shows you who is tracking you, but makes no attempt to stop them? It seems if you actually want any privacy from this, you'll have to pay for their VPN service, and their web site doesn't even mention ad-blocking or faster browsing.

TL;DR
I think you're better off using Ghostery.

Then again, Disconnect claims to be open source, so maybe there's a forked project somewhere which includes the old functionality?

I guess you're talking about ungoogled-chromium, am I right?

It's a quite speedy browser, but that comes to the cost of it (by default) not having a way to install extensions, not having widevine (needed for netflix and other streaming services)

I've used Dark Reader for a while and found it to be one of the better night mode extensions. It has a fair few adjustment options and is available on Chrome + FireFox (not IE though unfortunately). Not certain about saving settings across browsers but might be worth a look. https://darkreader.org/

Give Opera a second try, it's Chrome but better in every way.

• It has the best New Tab page among browsers. All your bookmarks can be there, you can personalize it with folders, backgrounds and different image tiles. Chrome's New Tab page is a joke, and Firefox isn't as pretty or functional. Edge's is limited, although is well animated and I tend to read the news it provides.

• Nice features that other browsers doesn't have. Native adblocker and video pop-out, among others. It supports all Chrome extensions too.

• Nice UI and integration. It merges well with Windows 10, it uses Windows Notifications, the downloads are presented similar to Firefox instead that ugly bar in Chrome. Soon will have "Dark Mode" (it's already in beta).

I am using Microsoft Edge right now, it's pretty good too, on its own way. It's like browsing pages at 60fps (try it for yourself, go to Yahoo News or https://vivaldi.com/ with different browsers, Edge scrolls better). It supports extensions, including userscripts and adblockers too.

> Just lol at supporting firefox. Brave is coming up with real solutions while firefox is begging regulators to censor voices.

Oh yes as if Mozilla isn't actually making an entire browser engine from scratch. Or isn't literally the biggest sponsor of Let's Encrypt.

We can cherrypick all day here.

There are two addons that will help greatly with this:

NoScript and AdBlock Plus. (If you install Adblock, disable it for Reddit.) ;)

Adblock will automatically block most of the ads/servers that cause those pop-ups.

NoScript is a whitelisting/opt-in blocker, meaning that it blocks all scripts except for the ones that you allow. You can allow scripts regularly or temporarily with it.

I recommend that in the beginning you only choose to temporarily allow scripts so you can slowly learn which scripts are commonly necessary for which web pages. One reason for this is that many web pages have scripts for advertising along with scripts for actual functionality. It will be frustrating, but you'll see that some pages have as many as 30 scripts from different web sites/servers running on them. For expediency while learning, "temporarily allow all this page" will set any frustrations aside, and once you've got the hang of it after some time, fully enabling scripts on pages you regularly use will make things smooth and much more pleasant.

Otter Browser site: http://otter-browser.org Download links (for linux users I recommend to use AppImage): https://sourceforge.net/projects/otter-browser/files/otter-browser-beta12/ On Arch Linux it's in otter-browser package in AUR.

He could use Flashpoint which has a great selection of flash games and you could the linux version since i believe chromebooks can run linux apps https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

auto-update doesn't work on windows. so i'd recommend using chocolaty package manager instead of downloading binaries

install chocolaty and then type in the terminal choco install librewolf and when you have to update type choco upgrade librewolf that's it

Browsh works very well with modern websites, see this video. However, it uses full blown Firefox under the hood. What if there was more lightweight modern text-based browser?

It depends on how readable you want the end result to be. It would be pretty easy to knock something together in Stylish or the Chrome equivalent that applies to every domain.

Opera used to ship with several entertaining built-in modes like that.

Vivaldi if you like many features, good privacy and root for the underdog. Whether or not it performs well on your machine I cannot say. Ultimately it depends on your preferences, Firefox is a very good browser too, and also edge has some advantages.

If you try Vivaldi, check out mouse gestures first.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/browse-fast-with-mouse-gestures/

Vivaldi an all-in-one browser and lots of built-in features. You can customize almost anything. Has ad and tracker blocker. Tab tiling and stacking. Built-in notes and web panel. Been using it for a long time and definitely recommend it.

Improperly nested tags, and IE sucks.

per the link

<html><head> <style type="text/css"> #a { margin:0 10px 10px; } #b { width:100%; } </style> <title>IE Crasher</title> </head> <body> <table><tr><td> <div id="a"> <form id="b"> <input type="text" name="test"/> </div> </td><td width="1"></td></tr></table> </body></html>

Yes, but I have both. I would recommend to try out each one.

I see more features and customization with Vivaldi.

Pros and Cons - comparison

Sounds to me like they have no trouble managing the tabs, that the problem is that with so many tabs open the browser claims basically all system resources.

/u/daredeviler_21, have you tried any extensions that automatically hibernate background tabs? Auto Tab Discard for example is available for Firefox and Chrome (and thus also Vivaldi and Opera).

Not only Linux, Elinks is also for Windows and OSX. There is also Links, which has graphics mode.

Well, if you're on Linux you can try GNOME Web. I believe it's based on WebKit, which should make it less resource hungry than Firefox and Chromium-based browsers.

And of course; if you're on Mac, there's Safari.

No. It supports Linux, Windows including Windows XP, Mac and *BSD.

1) Go to: https://otter-browser.org/

2) Click on experimental binaries(the experimental part is misleading unless you download the weekly edition).

3) Pick one folder and download the executable.

It is far from perfect but, amazing that the whole thing is done by one guy after work, and only occasionally two other guys join him. My biggest/only gripe is that youtube on Linux works only on a full moon after doing a rain dance.

Nothing objective. I don't try to time operations in different browsers. My impression is that there's little performance difference between Chrome, Opera and Firefox ESR. Also, they all use roughly the same amount of RAM when all processes are included.

In terms of UI, for me Opera is the biggest break from my own Firefox past, which I've been using for over 14 years. I still prefer Firefox's bookmarks UI (bookmarks menu in addition to bookmarks bar vs Chrome's bookmarks bar and its Other Bookmarks entry vs Opera's bookmark bar and bookmarks tab). OTOH, for purely subjective aesthetic reasons, I kinda like Opera's sidebar.

FWIW, I haven't come across any Chrome extensions which haven't worked under Opera.

There's a portable version, so you could try it out without needing to install it.

I had a look for one a while back, but ended up sticking with a third party program for it.

~~I used indievolume for this~~ (CORRECTION: Actually switched to a program called CheVolume after a while as it was more stable), but there are other solutions like DirectAudioSwitch, AudioSwitcher etc.

Hope it helps.

If anyone wants to try Chrome 45 without installing, then there is an awesome cross-browser testing service called Browserling that lets you use all browsers from your browser.

You can visit this URL:

www.browserling.com/browse/chrome/45/www.reddit.com

It will load Chrome 45 that you'll be able to use from your browser without installing.

Somebody still using chrome might be living under a rock. If you want to chrome like features then go with kinza browser https://www.kinza.jp/en/. I happily made the transition. Google releases software, trackers and other things that made it heavy where somebody should understand why chrome is never happy with whatever ram you provide.

I have a similar feeling about it. It's quite an efficient upgrade; pages load faster, streamline design, and lots of cool new features w/o becoming a resources hog (like it used to.)

My main gripes with 4 is the amazing status bar (at the bottom) that provided us with useful information like:

1.Add-ons icons

2.Link URL Preview

3.Resize Window Control

4.Current loading tasks

5.Progress bar for page loading

6.Notification that page has finished loading

7.Link to download manager with download summary

...is gone now. If you're like me and you want your browser with that functionality included, then check out Status-4-Evar.

Another gripe I have with 4 is the Add-ons Manager in Tab Bar. I can see it's benefits and intentions for putting it there, but I like my Tabs for webpages and I want my options menus to be a standalone box that I can move to the side while I tweek my browser. Not to mention, there is a load time with this new Add-ons Manager. Before it just popped up and ready to go, but now it connects to the mozilla addons site and depending on your connection and cpu, there is a certain wait period.

This bugged me a lot, but I was glad to find someone create an addon feature that fixed this issue.

All in all, the new browser is amazing and has loads of potential. I'm sure as time goes on the users will assist the staff with some positive upgrades and work out any kinks.

Pale Moon (and presumably K-Meleon, which has been a fork of Pale Moon for ~2 years) removed WebRTC support on purpose.

Even if that wasn't a show-stopper, Pale Moon's engine development is essentially a 2-person operation, and both of the main developers have a long history of spreading FUD while ignoring security best practices. Their code split off from Firefox's over 4 years ago (Firefox 56), and in addition to the aforementioned security issues it has also not kept up on features.

>Doesn't get updates often

Incorrect:

https://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml

>Written mostly by one person.

Incorrect:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=7818

>You have to install old versions of add ons. Many FX add ons just don't work.

Partially correct. Plugins for FF work fine with PM. Extensions that have been written\modified specifically for the Australis interface will probably not work with PM, but many of these extensions were updated only for Australis compatibility, their actually functionality was not changed, so using older versions is not an issue. Further, there are very many current version extensions written for FF that work perfectly on PM and there are quite a few PM specific extensions as well.

You still didn't provide any evidence of your "not secure" claim regarding PM. I think if you do your homework you'll find that PM is very secure, providing security updates on a consistent and timely basis.

PM isn't perfect, no browser is, but I think that you are off-base on your assessment of this program and suggest that you give it an honest try.

Have you looked into Vivaldi? Built on Chromium so it's compatible with all modern websites, and highly customizable - you may definitely be able to tweak it to fit your preferences.

Vivaldi browser has a very customizable UI including an option in the Settings > Appearance > Window Appearance panel to "Show User Interface"

It's checked as default, but when you uncheck it goes to a weird hybrid of a windowed "full screen" experience - which I think is what you are looking for.

https://vivaldi.com/ Try Vivaldi instead, you can add Opera Extensions (by changing the enx Opera suffix to crx Chrome suffix) & then you can download You Tube videos but with a Chrome base. It'll do almost everything that Chrome & Firefox can do, and more

I dunno about Light to run, but have you tried vivaldi?

https://vivaldi.com/

It's basically chromium backend and a html/javascript/css front end with features that mimic old opera. It was made by the former opera developers and while it's still a preview, it should work with youtube 60fps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2JdK87mmrQ (60FPS video test, but you have to change the quality to 1080p60fps or 720p60fps.)

Try Chrome Dev Tools with built-in workspaces and Emmet Re:View, or NetBeans HTML5 and NetBeans Connector.

Mozilla makes most of their money through default search deals such as with Google. They also have a partnership with Amazon for search (when it comes to searching for products on amazon), and ProtonVPN for VPN service.

Other browsers have search deals with google, amazon, or other companies, in addition they often reuse existing browsers which lowers the cost of development. Chromium is a pretty well used platform for most browsers.

>User may want to see title instead. Like me :)

I've been thinking about this for long, surely the title looks prettier than an URL (I know some more browsers that use this approach), but it is much more important to see the URL because of phishing. And no, showing just the domain (Safari) won't suffice, because bad sites can host themselves on good or good-looking domains.

Opera is fine. If you picked up some malware its not because of Opera.

However if you want a free VPN. ProtonVPN has a free tier. Its not the fastest thing ever but its far better than alternatives.

I wrote "free" VPNs. Paid, reputable VPNs are generally considered safe (i.e. Mullvad).

Just pay for a VPN, if you really need one. I don't think free VPNs give you no-log options, for instance, and may leak (or sell) you browsing data.

Chrome is great for normal users.

• It has automatic, forced updates, which is a must. Normal users don't update.

• It's stable. Regression rate (especially for the UI) is very low. Things, especially in the UI, don't break every time there's an update. Can't really be said for some other Chromium-based browsers.

• It's the most compatible with web sites. More specifically though, it has the best media compatibility because it uses ffmpeg for everything (including proprietary codecs) where most other Chromium-based browsers rely on different implementations of interfacing with the Windows Media Foundation for proprietary codecs, which is just not as compatible in practice. In other words, media works in more places/instances/situations in Chrome.

• It uses the Chrome/Chromium User-Agent string which sites expect. This means users don't run into browser-detection issues on sites.

• It has support/access to the Google Speech to Text API for dictation at <https://translate.google.com/> and <https://www.duolingo.com/> for example.

• It has support for casting. In other Chromium-based browsers, this might not be supported.

In other words, Chrome just works. (Not saying it's never had any bugs etc.)

I suggest downloading Revo Uninstaller (you can download it from Ninite) and using the program to uninstall Chrome. You will likely still need to go through some of your various folders to delete temp files, etc., but out of the box Revo should be able to get rid of it pretty easily.

Nordvpn, ProtonVPN w Netshield, and Adguard local vpn fails to block the ads Built into Phoenix Browser

I wanted to use Phoenix Browser because of its great downloading tools, easily download any videos from any website including streaming sites as well as great built in torrent capabilities etc.

Hell I am even willing to pay. (already have in error expecting it to disable the ads).

But the ads in Phoenix browser are those God awful full screen wait 10 seconds to skip ads for mobile games etc.

I have thus far found no way to block those

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I 100 percent agree but limitations have kept us to look for alternatives. I still yearn for that day when ublock origin comes for mobiles.

Meanwhile, I use this with ublock origin installed.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.you.browser

Don't listen to Logii browser advertisers that are present on this subreddit (like u/James_Williamson1999). Logii is a paid scam.

First select a new browser. There's 3 browsers I recommend: Brave (simple, good adblock built-in) Firefox (customizable and mostly independent, if you don't like the big tabs, enable compact mode with about:config) Ungoogled Chromium (Chrome without Google) [Unfortunately Ungoogled lacks auto-update by sefault so you won't get updates automatically. Sync is also not available]

Add uBlock Origin (Brave doesn't need uBlock Origin, if you put Brave blocking to aggressive). Decentraleyes or LocalCDN are also good extensions.

Reject all cookies (reject all is usually hidden in modify cookie settings). You can also add the I don't care about cookies filter list to your adblocker or add the extension.

You can also use a VPN like ProtonVPN.

Security is also important, don't use the same password on different sites for obvious reasons. Use a password manager (KeePass, Bitwarden).

Remember to change your browser settings too.

Native bookmarks works when you are not going out of them.

If you love to keep a file of your bookmarks everywhere safe, try this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coconuts.webnavigator

I'm not deep into the Apple ecosystem, and only own an iPad (Pro).

On that device, I prefer Safari over any other browser I've tried. Other browser makers like Brave or Snowhaze claim their browser is "X% faster the Safari" on their App Store pages, but in general use I've found Safari to be the least janky.

Then there's the web extensions support. A combination of AdGuard, StopTheMadness, Vinegar, Privacy Redirect, along with NextDNS for DNS filtering running within a Mullvad or IVPN WireGuard tunnel does a fairly decent job in the privacy front, at least within the limitations of iOS/iPadOS.

I wasn't a huge fan of desktop Safari back when I used a Mac though. Firefox with the arkenfox and a few extensions did more for me than Safari ever managed on the desktop front.

there is one if you're looking for a replacement on Android:
Snap Search

I assure you, you won't need to add any extensions (its got supreme ad blocking capabilities, video download and lots, lots more)

Must try!

This is not in anything related to browser or extension but if the browser doesn't come with an adblocker and you really want to use that browser then use an adblocker known as Blokada it uses a VPN profile but isn't a vpn Blokada

> Long gone are the days where a lone programmer stood a chance of creating a truly unique and standalone browser, that's not "just a fork" of Gecko or Chromium.

Still Otter Browser is made mostly by a single developer and it's not based on Gecko/Blink, but WebKit.

From a PR standpoint most views on Edge are likely influenced by user and developer experience with Internet Explorer. Microsoft ran consumer/developer goodwill into the ground with that product line. By letting IE push horrible support for web standards and for lax security that infected many users machines. Simply Edge, for many users, is guilty by association of being a Microsoft browser like IE.

That all being said the main reason I don't use Edge (outside of development testing)... is that I have no compelling reason to. I'm a multi platform user, running Mac, Linux and Android. I like a consistent browsing experience. Something Chrome and Firefox generally offer by supporting multiple platforms.

My other random thought is that Edge just seems like a less complete version of Chrome. While the layouts are similar Chrome seems to be better planned out in a couple of minor areas. If its a choice between Chrome and Edge, and Chrome has multi-platform support, ... why would I bother with Edge?

To sum it up: Edge is an also-ran.

Cool idea. But, even the latest builds of it use an old version of QT 5 and an old, vulnerable version of OpenSSL. I'm assuming if you build Otter yourself you can fix that.

Also, according to here and here, Otter supports TLS up to and including 1.3. But, I don't see where to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1.

I'm not sure if you can build a 64-bit version of Otter either. I only see 32-bit binaries. Might not matter for some though.

However, Otter does work pretty decent in practice. It's not very modern looking, but it's trying to look like Opera 12, so that's understandable. The big thing with Otter is that's it's probably not secure as it should be just for the simple case that it uses older versions of libraries.

You can block ads and trackers in your browsers and apps without installing any application. On Android 9 and above, You just have to go to :

Settings - > Wifi & Internet - > Private DNS

Select "Private DNS provider hostname" and type

dns.adguard.com or p2.freedns.controld.com or

dot-de.blahdns.com You should also check out https://NextDNS.io, which allows customized blocklists

Alternatively to AdBlock Fast, AdGuard is another excellent content blocker that Samsung Internet supports. AdGuard contributes a lot of the global filter lists that uBlock Origin, Brave Shields, etc. use.

Firefox is the way to go and one of the few browsers besides Tor recommended by https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config for privacy at least as far as windows is concerned. Follow the link and there are additional tweaks you can follow and recommended extension to enhance privacy. I recommend ublock origin, https everywhere and decentraleyes (I use all 3). Privacy badger is also good but I don't personally don't use it as it might be a bit redundant with how I set up my ublock origin. It is a good extension though with its learning capabilities and some use both of them in conjunction. I hope it helps and good luck on your quest...

Not any that I know of. You could probably just use a hardend Firefox for that and use Tor for the other things (Assuming you want to use Tor Browser as your main browser)

https://www.privacytools.io/browsers/#about_config
https://blog.privacytools.io/firefox-privacy-an-introduction-to-safe/

Samsung Internet w/AdGuard if you want a simple, easy solution out of the box. Both Samsung Internet and the AdGuard extension can be found in the Play Store and run on all Android devices (i.e., you don't need a Samsung phone to install and use the browser).

Alternatively if you are comfortable side-loading, Bromite is an excellent option as well. Built-in adblock, a bunch of privacy enhancements that strip out Google's tracking habits, etc. Once you install it, it automatically updates itself so you won't need to worry about having to manually install updates from the projects Github page.

You can try falkon https://www.falkon.org/download/

It uses the same rendering engine as chrome so should work with most sites, but in comparison a leightweight browser.

Only downsite is that it currently has very few addons. But at least an adblocker is available :)

ungoogled chromium looks like the best option for you, its chomium but without the spooky part, its also ranked as not spyware in spyware watchdog spyware watchdog article: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html ungoogled chromium github: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Yeah, so. LEt's go one b y one. Yeah Opera INstaller from the opera.com. Official site.
Didn't use the VPN.

I didn't sync opera with my Opera MObile (Didn't use it yet) but still a lot those accounts were logged in on that Android.
So i won't put it out there that i've got a security breach there.

All extensions taken from Chrome Webstore. No one came from outside. (uBlock Origin, Dark Reader for sites that refuse to give us a dark mode, Mute Tab to keep a friend stream running and still count as a viewer, TwoSeven to what with my partner series together becuase covid, Return Youtube Dislikes for information.)

So yeah ;\
Right now i have 2FA on everything, so i'll probably go and test again Opera, and keep an eye for that.

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Firefox is one of the only non-Chromium based browsers left on Windows and has different performance characteristics than them. It also has a lot of really good features like really good performance under massive tab loads (you'll feel right at home with 64GB of RAM), containers, a sidebar (that can be used by extensions), end to end encrypted syncing, and a modern interface.

Give it a shot: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/

Install Google Search Fixer for the Google issue - Google sends a degraded version of their site to Firefox.

You may also want to try Firefox Nightly to see if it runs faster for you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix

You need to set up chocolatey, I update my chromium atleast 2 times daily.

First install chocolatey see how to install

Second install Chromium in this link you can see how to download and upgrade chromium daily

Also it is latest version so you might get bugs but I haven't find any in 2 months of use. Also to install or run any command you need to open cmd or powershell as administrator rights.

Please have a look at Vieb, which has full easylist support and allows custom blocklists (including cosmetic filtering). It's also completely keyboard driven, but does support the mouse for common features.

minbrowser.org is one of the most minimal (and cute) browsers that i never had it has a nice search bar in the top of the screen and anything else it is extremely minimal and you can do a lot of basic tasks with the search bar (it has a normal menu too in the superior left corner of the screen)

That's because all browsers try to cater to the masses, which means they are nondescript. One size fits nobody.

And then there is Vivaldi, out of the box it is trying to be not too different, but customization is key there. Go to https://vivaldi.com and move the slider in the "how much browser do you want" section to get an impression. Plus they just released a new version with a whole lot of theming options.

Riiiiight. One browser is run by a company fully owned by a foundation that "believes the Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all". The other one is an ad network.

Building a browser engine from scratch isn't something simple or easy.

So, if you wanna switch only because Google is killing ad-blocker extensions, you can use one browser that has a built-in ad-blocker. There's Brave, an open-source browser that works just like Chrome, but it blocks ads and trackers.

Other viable option is Opera, which blocks ads and trackers as well but isn't the best option regarding privacy (the company that develops it was acquired by a group of Chinese investors).

Both browsers are built from Chromium.

There's also other alternative, start using a dedicated ad-blocking software like "AdGuard".

In that case if you want to access sites that are blocked or restricted then go with vpn both free or paid. I use

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.windscribe.vpn

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adguard.vpn

You can opt for paid versions of anyone of these but free is great to begin with.

Author of Hermit chiming in!

As far as I know, Hermit is the only browser on Android that supports exactly what you described: https://hermit.chimbori.com/features/sandbox

Maybe the games he wants to play are on flashpoint? No guarantees but it's definitely worth a check.

Edit: just saw the chromeos part, there might be an android or linux app that you could get running on a chromebook but I'm not sure, sorry!

Ik you replied 3 months ago and probably won't see this, but I guess for anyone who somehow sees this, Firefox has been woefully behind on issues like sandboxing for a long time. See, e.g. https://grapheneos.org/usage.

>Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they're currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn't have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox runs as a single process on mobile and has no sandbox beyond the OS sandbox. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API. Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux, where it can hardly be considered a sandbox at all) and lacks support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole.

Background tab throttling has been available in Chrome since version 57: How to Enable or Disable Google Chrome Background Tab Throttling in Windows and Enable Throttle JavaScript Timers in Edge and Chrome to Reduce CPU Load.

Not possible in any really straightforward way. Javascript doesn't have security access to save to the file system, chrome dev tools don't have a built in feature to save images one by one.

Closest thing is the "save as HAR" option in the network tab (filter by "img", refresh the page, select all, right click)

Then you can use something like HAR-TOOLS to extract the files into a folder:

https://github.com/outersky/har-tools

But that sounds a little bit over complicated for what you are doing, which is an age-old problem. There are tons of software, extensions, or "spiders" that do exactly this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1199544/download-or-just-save-an-image-file-from-a-website-using-js

If you're using mobile devices, then Opera Mini and UC Mini render content on their proxy server like Puffin, but they're ad-supported. Depending on the sites you're accessing, using adblocking DNS on Android or iOS can help reduce a lot of the bandwidth and CPU usage.

Brave is for your average hoe who wants to stop Google collecting data on you through chrome. Recommended for people who want just a little bit of privacy but not extreme privacy.

Firefox is for those who really care about privacy. You have to change something’s if you use Firefox, shown here and get the extensions. Recommended for people who want serious privacy.

What I use: I use Firefox as my daily browser with all the twerks from privacytools.io, and with different profiles such as Home, School, DRM Content etc.

If you want extreme privacy, I would recommend using the tor browser without tor but with a VPN.

If privacy is what you want, https://www.privacytools.io recommends 3 browsers :- firefox, brave and tor . For android, I still prefer firefox with addons, but brave is catching up(although only blocks 1st party ads, but still good enough ) .

Verge's perspective :- https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18249623/brave-browser-choice-chrome-vivaldi-replacement-chromiu

Why I use it? Because it is only one of 3 browsers(other being tor and firefox) that are recommended by privacytoolsIO :- https://www.privacytools.io

Also, the fact that brave is a FOSS(free and open source software) and vivaldi isn't .

As mentioned by qwertyuiop-1, if there's one more secure/private than the browser that comes with the torbundle, the tor people probably haven't heard of it(and if anyone would have heard of it, it would have been them). It's basically firefox, with a few tweaks as I understand it. It's worth reemphasizing as it's not just that it's what you're looking for -- it's the right choice because of the reasons why you're looking for it.