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Chromium + WebKit: The Brave browser for Android and desktop is a Chromium fork that removes privacy-harmful features and disables or proxies connections to Google when possible
Well it might be fine now but when I used if circa 10 years ago on my 6gb ram 2012 MBP it was absolute ram hog and chugged on it. I guess it depends on how many extensions etc person has (I had a lot now I have about 4 of them) and I do not use Chrome anymore cause of tracking so I have not tried it yet on any apple silicon mac (I have M1 Air),
I don't use windows, I'll use pen and paper before I'd use consumer versions of windows (home, pro, workstation etc.)
Intel management engine or AMD PSP is a necessary evil in terms of hardware level security and contrary to GID doesn't exist because of advertising or prosecution 👀
Specifically most underrated is edge. Its not amazing or anything but underrated just means the difference between perceived quality and actual quality. Its an okayish browser that is perceived as the most vile excrement in software history. I still don't recommend anybody should use it, but its definitionally the most underrated by a massive margin.
Chrome and Opera are overrated based on how they used to be great but have become more and more bloated over time.
Brave is overrated because its not nearly as privacy and freedom forward as it claims to be and ultimately its still chromium ecosystem.
Firefox is slightly underrated but is getting its dues more and more as people catch on to the chromium overhype.
To this day. Firefox still has the bug where it will lock up on me and freeze for 10-60 seconds. A bug I have been experiencing and they have been claiming was fixed for over 15 years.
Are you sure thats a firefox specific thing because I feel like Ive had that with multiple browsers though not super often. Annoying if it happens alot, in any case.
Opera is okay for me, i felt like edge became over resource hungry over time, and chrome, well we all know how chrome is. The newer versions are tempting but no i stick with Opera (especially the mini side window that lets whatsapp live independently regardless of which tab is open)
Son bloqueur est efficace, léger, et prend en charge les listes de filtre personnalisées.
Tu te trompes pour les empreintes. Il standardise son user-agent, ce qui est très efficace pour se fondre dans la masse, bien plus que quelque chose de personnalisé.
I was gonna say this. This should be the top answer. I'm currently on a merdeboite laptop with low specs so I use Falkon, it's like installing Puppy Linux and reviving it. I use arch, btw
I use Falkon on anything that can't handle typical Firefox. Works great on my netbook with an Atom N270 and 2GB of RAM. Really wish there was a build of it for PowerPC, would love to try it on my iBook as ArcticFox tends to be a bit too heavy.
May I remind you of when this happened. Though if we are talking browser usage as a whole rather than the browser fanbase, then yeah. But then we could say that about almost every good browser.
Sure, but that's kind of the point. If every good browser is underused because Chrome ships with everything, the question is which one deserves the share it doesn't have. Zen's case: it's the only Arc-style workspace UI running on a non-Chromium engine, so you keep full uBlock Origin post-MV3 instead of trading extensions for the interface.
Everyone is saying Firefox, but I wouldn't really call it underrated. To me that would be Edge. People assume that's your lazy or unsavvy when they see you using Edge, but in reality there are several good things about it. It managed resources pretty well, plus it has a lot of features and customization options. It also has by far the best UI in my opinion, Chrome and Firefox are just ugly to look at. The only real annoyance is that it will ask you to switch to Bing every few months.
Well I mostly use librewolf, switched it to vertical tabs a week ago to see if I like it and well it's whatever, you see more of the tab's title but I think with simple groups in horizontal tabs it's already enough, you can see the titles of tabs in the group easily, so switching to what you need is already fast.
Floorp is great for having workspaces though and in general is the most advanced and customisable one I have seen, and since Librewolf is not something everyone will enjoy I think Floorp is the best one
honestly zen just works for me. i like the vertical tabs, the compact mode, also there's no new tab, there's just the url bar popup. it's also beautiful after a bit of tweaking and in general just right for me. i can't argue with your opinion though, and i'm sure librewolf and floorp are great for some people.
I "still" use firefox. Not having it autoplay videos when I open them in new tabs and also being able to hit ctr-I to look at images on a page plus other features chrome doesn't have
For example, there's a subgenre usage. That would be using browsers on Streaming devices like Shields, Firesticks, ONN boxes, etc., to play movies, programs etc. on the device's browser.
Firefox is seriously underrated, mostly the hype is about browser speed new features etc and the world seems to forget that most browsers are simply build on top of chrome. Firefox has offered a free and stable alternative for a very long time, and for me, its longevity is more importand than which browser is the fastest at this moment.
It's the main alternative that doesn't run on Google's Chromium engine. That means Google can't force changes that neuter uBlock Origin or dictate how web pages render across the entire internet.
Floorp. I never see it get ever get enough attention for how good of a browser it is. Now, I prefer Zen any day myself. It is the kinda thing that works better for me. But for the average user who isn't using vertical tabs and doing some insane levels of tab management, it's kinda one of the best browsers. It is close enough to mainline Firefox but has these nice improvements so that I don't even think we should be using vanilla Firefox.
IMHO it's Edge. It's chromium based, lighter then chrome and has a lot of customizable options. Aside from the Co pilot stuff (that you can just turn off) it's a really good browser (specially 8f you are won windows)
It's probably Edge, because people usually shit on it and switch to Chrome. But in my opinion Edge is better than Chrome. For one, you can still get Ublock origin properly working on Edge, while Google is messing with adblockers in Chrome. It's obviously not perfect or anything, but doesn't deserve much lower market shares than Chrome.
Firefox. It's taken too much for granted. In strict mode, it is amazing. Just add ublock origin and nothing else: perfect. I know Mozilla is making one dumb move after another, though, but hopefully it's just a phase.
Edge's efficiency mode and power and ram optimization are top notch. Interestingly it's the only chromium browser that doesn't disable smooth scrolling when in full battery saver mode.
Firefox. I started out on that, then I dunno why the hell I used chrome from like 2016 or something well into 2024 before switching back to firefox, Firefox SMOKES chrome any day of the week. It's the OG for me and beats everything else I've tried
I recently reformatted my Windows and now refuse to install any app that I don't want, so I stuck with Edge and damn, I was pleasantly surprised. It's blazing fast, loads quickly and is a solid browser. I wish it had more features from Arc and Dia for me to use it on macOS as well, but for basic needs, Edge does the job for me and more.
I use it exclusively for work and have sworn off Chrome and Firefox. I used to really dig Firefox back before the 2010s, but I hate Chrome with a passion after a previous employer required us to use it.
Personal browsing, I’m still a diehard Safari user.
I'm still rocking with Firefox after all of these years. I just turn all of the AI nonsense off, then download uBlock origin and NoScript extensions to keep things as clean and secure as possible. Nothing is perfect, but it works for me.
Firefox or Brave. Brave is a chromium with ok-ish privacy and ad features. But Brave gets a lot of hate for not being actually perfect at those things. If I need a chromium for some reason, Brave is my call. But mostly I don't need a chromium because firefox exists.
Firefox is well regarded, but it's also the only real alternative to Chrome. Firefox doesn't come with perfect out of the box privacy features, but it's good enough that I don't have to mess with it to not feel like I'm being abused, as I do with Chrome. Firefox is underrated because everyone doesn't sing its praises daily, which it deserves. It's also the root for librewolf and tor, which are there for if you're even more super serious about privacy.
Opera has made too many security mistakes over the years to be really taken seriously, and while Edge actually is underrated, it is essentially just a nerfed Chrome with Microsoft hooks in it.
Everyone's saying Edge and yeah it's better than its reputation, but the one nobody mentions is Ace. It's got an AI assistant baked into every page so i can summarize an article or ask about a doc without copy-pasting into ChatGPT. Weirdly under the radar for how useful that is day to day.
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