What is the best browser to use as a second?
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@Catweazle said in What is the best browser to use as a second?:
Try KDE Falkon (https://kde.org/applications/en/internet/org.kde.falkon).
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@stilgarwolf , yes, but I use Windows and KDE.Falkon is only for Linux.
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@Catweazle
Hi and no, Falcon is for Windows, too. https://www.falkon.org/download/
I checked on Linux but only for short test, looks really basic.Cheers, mib
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What about qute?
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I won't be very original.
1st and the most - Vvaldi.
2nd is Edge (on mobile - Chrome).Why? Vivaldi is just great. And second browser for the page translations.
Vivaldi will never translate whole pages because of licenses and so on. Edge comes with Windows, Chrome comes with android. -
@mib2berlin , yes, but not KDEFalkon, its only Linux. As I said before , Falkon Windows is the same as use directly Chromium
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I obviously have Opera and Vivaldi, if I need something different it's Firefox.
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@sgunhouse , Have you read the privacy policy that Firefox has now? It is not very different from the one Chrome has. Firefox is no longer what it was in the past and Opera still less. I am a very strange person, I read TOS and PP, before installing something, which is certainly not a very common habit.
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The point of using Firefox is that it is a non-Chromium browser. As a second (or really third) browser it is important that it really is different. And being a third browser, they won't see much.
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@sgunhouse , I know, the third browser I have Edge on Windows anyway. The difficulty of finding a second other than Chrome, which also offers decent security. Firefox does not convince me, Avant with its Tri-Motor would be the most indicated, the rest are other Chromium or outdated Mozilla or directly they no longer exist.
Focusing the market more and more on the usual ones, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Opera, the others are being ignored and are disappearing. It is scary to see the list on Wikipedia to see how many browsers are with the discontinued behind.
Fortunately Vivaldi, with 0.02% of the market, is still on the list and making itself known in specialized magazines, thanks to being the only one really different. -
The other two active engines would be Safari/Webkit (though I'm not certain Apple has a Windows version any more) and the parent of both Chromium and Safari - Konqueror/khtml. I seem to recall mention of KDE apps for Windows, but can't find it.
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Years ago, there were a couple of distros that used Opera Presto due to either its small size or low resource usage, though not now ...
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I certainly would not recommend srware iron browser as an alternative as it is purely a scamware creating non existent issues with chromium/chrome and then claiming iron solves them.
Problem with iron is that it blocks "everything" including CRLset updates and other components.
If you are using a chromium based browser as a second then expect it to connect to google servers as they need to for security reasons.There seems to be this myth that if you use another chromium based browser that you are evading google..never going to happen.
i am only a very recent user of vivaldi so vivaldi is my 2nd browser if you wish as i have used pale moon for many years but 32bit linux pale moon will end in december and vivaldi will be the successor and im liking it so far.
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I currently have the Min Browser on my test run. It can serve as an occasional emergency browser, it is FOSS, it has good privacy protection, although, nomen est omen, it is a browser in its simplest expresion, a window with a configurable search engine (Startpage, DDG) and that's it.
https://github.com/minbrowser/min
https://minbrowser.org/>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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@Catweazle You can try qutebrowser, as @potmeklecbohdan suggested. Interesting, maybe a little bit experimental yet.
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@hlehyaric , I've already tried it, but I'm a Mous driven user. Qute is not bad, but I do not like its handling so much.
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@Catweazle said in What is the best browser to use as a second?:
suggestions?
Firefox-Nightly, with assiduousabout:configtweaks, plus some excellent AOs.Opera12gets reinstalled each time i hop distros, & i fire it up now & then. I probably will remove it soon, coz it's too upsetting to see the myriad websites i commonly use that it won't load at all now, let alone run properly. We all here already know this, of course, & have done so for years, but it's hard letting go.@mib2berlin said in What is the best browser to use as a second?:
Falkon ... looks really basic
Oh indeed it is, & fails at some important basic tasks. My main use of it is simply to fire it up so i can idly do some time-killing surfing whilst everything else is closed down during my weekly backups. Once the b/u are over i can close Falkon again til next time then relaunch a proper browser. That said, I really do like its TreeStyleTab-esque sidebar -- V really needs to get onto TST.
@Priest72 said in What is the best browser to use as a second?:
pale moon
I had this on Manjaro & each distro before that. When i changed to current distro Arch, i chose to leave PM alone [not install]. It's precompiled & part of the standard Manjaro repos, so it's dead-simple to install, but in Arch they kicked it out of their repos months ago hence it needs local building via AUR, but that is resource & time heavy, & has to repeat too often given PM updates, so i abandoned it.
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Chromium
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@phanex good answer
