What is the best browser to use as a second?
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I am currently testing various alternatives, to find a good browser that I can use as a second.
It turns out that most of them, based on Chromium, increasingly resemble Chromium itself, involving a large number of services directly related to Google.
So far they have been on my desk
SRWare Iron, not bad, but no what I wait for
Wanted to try Avant, but this is blocked directly by Windows Smart Screen
Cent Browser, many configurations, almost like Vivaldi, but with the usual Google Sync and it has not convinced me either
UR Browser, which is closer to my preferences, although with difficulties in saving UI preferences
Brave I find it somewhat suspect
At the moment I am testing the Otter Browser, which announces to resume the philosophy of Opera 12, although quite messy to configure if one does not have notions of CSS and scripts.
Well, this is odious to choose a second browser, if one is using Vivaldi
Anyway, any suggestions?>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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For this reason I wanted to use the Avant (Tri-motor), but due to a hysterical attack by Windows Defender I cannot install it.
>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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I've used Slimjet for quite a few years as a second. It's a little "old-fashioned", but secure and updated frequently. Based off Chrome but they put their own spin on everything. I'm happy with it.
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@Catweazle Have you tried Lunascape? It is a tri-motor engine browser too.
You could also take a glimpse at Kinza.
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@hlehyaric , yes, but Kinza don't understand Spanish, Lunascape privacy policy:
"Information Lunascape gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout the Site(s) or Product(s). ",
Epic has good privacy, but use most of time very outdated Chromium and break a lot of pages and don't admit most of the extensions, Falcon and Chromium don't have much differences.
Having Vivaldi really has the disadvantage that it is impossible to make comparisons. It's like owning a Ferrari and looking for a second car at a second-hand FIAT dealer.>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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Having Vivaldi really has the disadvantage that it is impossible to make comparisons.
I completely agree with you, anything else seems dull.
FWIW, my main browser is Snapshot, my second Stable…
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@hlehyaric , Maybe I'm going to wait a bit, there is one that may be interesting, NetSurf, but the Windows version is still alpha and only demonstrative.
There were very good browsers in the past, but seeing now the list of browsers on Wikipedia, the vast majority are either not updated for 1-2 years or directly discontinued with 404 error. -
@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.
>Laptop ACER, AMD Ryzen, GPU AMD Radeon RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB -Win11 Home 64 v24H2| Vivaldi last stable|
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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
Opensuse Tumbleweed x86_64 KDE 6.2 X11, Windows 11 Pro, Vivaldi latest
HP Probook Intel(R) i5-8350U 16 GB, GPU UHD 620, SSD 256 GB
Miniforum-B550 AMD Ryzen 7 4700G 16 GB, Radeon Graphics
Redmi Note 14, HyperOS Android 14 -
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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vivaldi-snapshotSecondary:
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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 ...
