UR Browser

[Eggcorn]

Catweazle spoke highly of UR Browser:

I prefer UR Browser (French product), also not that updated, but with very good own privacy and security features, including a own real VPN, like Brave.

A better second Browser is UR. At least for me, far superior to Brave. It's also fairly new from a small French company, highly customizable, fast, and with bomb-proof security and privacy, including an AV for downloads and an optional VPN (paid, provided by Express). Also based in Chromium. Block ads, trackers and fingerprints.

So I decided to try it out, and create a thread for it. My initial impression is that it seems like a more advanced Brave, perhaps with better privacy.

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , yes, for this reason is for the moment the browser which I use as second one. I like it more than any other Chromium I tried (Apart from Vivaldi). But laks a community, ther is only a blog, and its closed proprietary soft, but with aceptable TOS and PP (EU norm)
(nice the parallax wallpaper it has)

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle But there is one problem I ran into: UR installed onto my admin account, not my main account (I'm on Windows 10).

[TbGbe]

@eggcorn

Windows: Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7
Mac: OS X El Capitan 10.11 and up

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , I install it for all user like any other, also in W10

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle There wasn't an option for that in the installation software.

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn ?? well, here I have it, for all users

You may need to review user settings in Windows

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle User settings? I'm not familiar with that term.

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , in Windows 10 it's som complicated to access the user settings and permissions with the normal settings menu.
But the GodMode makes it much easier

For this create a new folder everywhere you lik and rename the folder

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Instead of GodMode you can give it another name, but the code between the brackets need to be exact.
With this the folder change the image in something like this

When you open it you have an ordered list with any Windows settings, even the most hidden ones.
That is, a Control Panel with steroids

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle I found a simpler solution: I manually installed UR onto my main account.

I think the UR installer gave me a standalone version. At the very least, UR wasn't in "Add or Remove Programs" on either or my accounts. So I copied UR from my admin account's App Data folder to my main account's App Data folder (minus "User Data, I deleted that to be safe). And it seems to be working.

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , it's a shot from behind, through the knee to the eye, but if it works like that, fine. Anyway, at least for me, it is only for occasional use or for testing another Chromium on a certain page with problems for Vivaldi.

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle said in UR Browser:

it's a shot from behind, through the knee to the eye

For a standalone version, not really. As I understand it: The point of a standalone version is to be portable and movable. I wouldn't have even tried that, if I thought it were a non-standalone version!

Anyway, at least for me, it is only for occasional use or for testing another Chromium on a certain page with problems for Vivaldi.

What about for recommending to others? Do you point someone to UR, if you think Vivaldi might be a bit much for him?

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , naturally I would recommend UR as an alternative, if some user does not clarify with Vivaldi and wants something simpler, it is a good browser, in my opinion better than Brave.
But personally, I'm more than happy with Vivaldi and that's why I only use UR as a backup, so I don't have to use EDGE, if something goes wrong, I don't have any more uses for it.

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle I've been recommending Vivaldi and Brave. And I'll probably continue recommending Brave rather then UR. As @tbgbe points out, UR doesn't work (or at least isn't supported) in Linux. And I'd like to see more Linux adoption, I don't want to lock people into Windows and Mac via the browser.

But more importantly, UR doesn't work on Android and iOS. That means it isn't the Chrome alterative that Brave is.

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , that is sadly true, but UR is still very newbee and apparently also very small team. Maybe there are therefore also versions for other OS later. This system of cryptocurrencies that it has, does not inspire much confidence in me and is a source of negative temptations, as Brave has already shown in the past.
I would personally search for a Linux user another browser than Brave, which doesn't end up convincing me.

[Eggcorn]

@catweazle UR has gotten EU funding. So hopefully, the EU is serous about building UR up as a Chrome-alterative. I'm generally not a fan of the EU, but they have done some good work when it comes to Big Tech monopoly busting. Let's hope they keep it up.

Come to think of it, where's Vivaldi's EU funding? Vivaldi is based in the EU. And more importantly, if people actually knew about Vivaldi: It could make a big dent in the American Big Tech browsers. So come on EU, you can spare a few million for marketing Vivaldi (and UR)! Don't let American Big Tech dominate Europe.

[Catweazle]

@eggcorn , I agree with this. I think that the EU need to go independient of US Big Tech with own alternatives, but there a only few browser projects in the EU or Europe in general, that can compete. Vivaldi and UR are los most advanced in this aspect, others are discontinued, not very stable or outdated.
A lot of work is needed in this cuestion.