What's the chromium equivalent to Librewolf?
What's the chromium equivalent to Librewolf?
Librewolf is great, but now some stupid sites require chromium-based browsers to work. E.g: Microsoft teams.
- Ungoogled chromium? problem is that it's worse in fingerprinting compared to Brave. See: https://privacytests.org/
- Brave: bloated and filled with unnecessary features.
Why isn't there a Brave fork yet that gets rid of the crypto junk?
Just use a user-agent switcher in Firefox
This works very well, I have yet to run into a site that is broken on FF/LW, they just want a chrome user-agent for whatever reason.
I'm not sure about fingerprinting, but Vivaldi might be an option.
Vivaldi is a nice browser, but doesn't do too well when you look at the technicals. It is also bloated with side panels, email, calendar, notes, etc that I didn't want. Unfortunately Vivaldi and Brave are trying to out "extra" each other.
It's not even open source. No thanks.
@j2b @Tiritibambix It's open source with the exception of the proprietary UI.
I don't think something closed source counts
Why isn’t there a Brave fork yet that gets rid of the crypto junk?
It probably boils down to funding. People need to get paid at the end of the day. The ultimate solution is a paid browser that works only in the user's interest, but people are spoiled now. They want everything for free, and they want it to work perfectly also. The reality is that nothing is free in life. You either pay with money or in another currency (your info).
I would suggest not using sites and services that require a certain browser. That is the only way to counter this attitude of Google. If you have to for your job or something, use Brave only for that and keep everything important on librewolf.
@zephyr vivaldi talks a good talk but still has plenty of telemetry and closed additions
Maybe Iridium browser? It's open and libre and has removed some/many/all chromium/google phone homes?