Firefox works great.
download firefox
look inside
80% of mozilla revenue is from google
You can’t escape
Even if the Mozilla foundation went bankrupt tomorrow, Firefox would persist. It might not be as quick to update, but it’s an open source project that people will keep working on, regardless of the money.
I’ve always been curious how many lines of code in Chromium and Firefox are from salaried software engineers, and how many are from community contributions
Who cares where the revenue comes from? There’s no google spyware in there, and it’s competition, that’s what really matters.
Changing your search engine doesn’t stop Google from controlling 80% of Mozilla’s revenue or almost the entirety of the rest of the browser space
There are two browsers, chrome and FF.
Though the engine is still being actively worked on to provide android support https://blogs.igalia.com/jani/bringing-webkit-back-to-android/
It feels very weird to say but
I think maybe
the world was better when Trident existed??
> downloads desktop app
> looks inside
> it’s a webpage with a dedicated browser
(Web 2.0 and it’s consequences…)
Why even make a desktop app at this point? I get doing that if it has some inherent advantage over the web version, but why go through the trouble of making another program if it’s just gonna be the same but in electron?
I switched to Firefox because of Googlea plans to stop adblockers.
I still prefer FF or Vivaldi over Google Chrome. Yes Vivaldi is Open Source Chromium, but at least it doesn’t have the Chrome crap in it.
Vivaldi contains Chromium, but it isn’t itself open-source, by the way.
They say of themselves that “for all practical purposes the Vivaldi source code is available for audit”. I would not fully agree with that either, but I guess, at that point the open-source purists have already lost interest anyways.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-source/
That’s like saying there’s only 5 games because they use the same game engine
Is there a mobile Vivaldi counterpart? It doesn’t make sense for me that I can’t share history with desktop and mobile together
I tried Vivaldi, it’s a good browser but I prefer Brave because it has build it Tor. In my country most torrent sites are blocked so a built-in Tor is useful to me, it can open those sites without VPN.
Brave is also a shifty shady browser that has problems with inserting affiliate links without telling you and selling off user data. They’re really not better or remotely trustworthy TBH, you might as well use the actual TOR browser built on Firefox if you need that capability.
Yeah, I don’t understand how Brave became acceptable all of the sudden.
Did they do some big marketing campaign in the US or something?