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Time for me to switch
I'm looking into Helium. It's chrome-based but at this point I might as well use something that works
Why not Waterfox or one of the other open source Firefox forks?
That's still alive? I thought it became mostly irrelevant Pale Moon... Anyway, last I looked it was buggy, out of date, and vulnerable. I use librewolf and it has pretty quick updates and doesn't follow ESR.
The only decent browsers seem to be downstreams with shit ripped out of them, with some exceptions like Floorp. Helium adds and changes things to improve UX which makes me curious about where it's going...
Firefox is already a second-class citizen on the web, and forks of it tend to be sloppy. I'm holding out some hope for a future with ladybird but until something like that happens, the gap between "chrome with shit ripped out" and "Firefox with shit ripped out" will be quite small in terms of privacy and security; but chromium ones will have an edge in compatibility.
Interesting. Looks like Waterfox's last release was 9 days ago.
ETA: I know the Firefox based browsers sometimes have problems rendering pages, but from what I've seen that's become less of an issue over time (it used to be a pretty big problem). I'm avoiding Chrome-based browsers wherever possible because of how the extension ecosystem has been wrecked by Google.
Interesting UI, terrible font rendering on Linux at least.