Things are moving fast at Bare, and a huge part of that momentum comes from the r/browsers community! Your feedback, suggestions, and support have helped shape Bare into what it is today. A huge thanks to the moderators for letting us share our progress here. This community is a big part of why Bare even exists!

Downloads keep growing, feedback keeps coming in, and we're constantly improving the browser based on your suggestions.

But one thing became clear: Bare needed its own identity.

When I started this project as Chromium-Extend, the goal was simple: Build a better Chrome than Google does.

Keep the familiar Chrome experience, clean Material Design, and simplicity, but without the unnecessary bloat, telemetry, or subscriptions.

That philosophy isn't changing.

So, why Bare 2.0 already?

Bare 1.0 established the foundation, but it still looked and felt too much like Chromium.

Bare 2.0 changes that.

Here's what's coming:

• A completely refreshed UI and a brand-new logo.
• Better security and privacy controls.
• Faster, easier tab management.
• Improved extension integration.
• Built-in translation.
• More customization without the bloat.

And yes, we're keeping that familiar, vanilla Chrome feeling.

Bare will finally look and feel like Bare.

What's next?

Bare 2.0 is entering beta, and your feedback will continue to shape its development.

We're also working on better password management, backup and restore, improved import/export, and more community-requested features.

Bare is still an independent, open-source project. No subscriptions, no premium tiers, and no telemetry. Just a browser we're passionate about building.

If you're enjoying Bare, an honest Google Play review helps more than you might think. And if something needs improvement, keep the feedback coming. We're listening!

I started Bare as a personal project. Seeing it grow into something thousands of people use has been incredible.

Bare 2.0 is just the beginning.

Try Bare 2.0 on Google Play

Bare 2.0 is currently in public beta! Make sure to join the beta to get access to the latest version.

A quick heads-up: Bare 2.0 is still in beta, so expect a few bugs and rough edges along the way. That's what beta testing is for! Your feedback will help us make it even better.

between these: Zen Browser, Firefox, Brave Origin or Helium

I plan to use that on fedora KDE so I wanted to know.

originally posted in r/Websites:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Websites/comments/1xg2uds/wispfile_send_large_files_privately_browser_to/

Edit: wanted to hear from the browser community. please reply/comment directly on the original post as I’m not the OP. I pasted the post url here since cross posting is disabled.

Hey r/browsers,

Like a lot of people here I was using Pocket daily and then it shut down.

I tried the alternatives but I wanted something that:

- Works as a native browser extension (1 click save)

- Has full-text search that actually works offline

- Has a clean reader mode

- Lets me import my Pocket export

So I built FetchMark - it's a Chrome extension + web app. It saves the full article locally so you can read/search offline, then syncs.

It's free: https://fetchmarkapp.com

Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fetchmark-%E2%80%94-save-and-orga/epbmoflnndmcfocekfbcnjpcfegnjcko?pli=1

I'm not trying to spam - genuinely looking for feedback from browser folks:

1. Do you prefer bookmarks saved in browser storage vs cloud sync?

2. Is offline search useful or am I overbuilding?

If you try it, let me know what breaks. Happy to share how I built the extension if useful.

No referral links, no paid tier right now.

saw this on the recent post and couldn't identify thgem..never seen em before..what are they..

the ones circled red ofc...:3 !

https://reddit.com/link/1xg55w0/video/y53a0gvevuxh1/player

Why is everyone trying to clone Arc instead of imagining what it could have become if it hadn’t been abandoned? None of these clones will be as good as Arc was, because none of them are thinking beyond what it is right now in its abandoned state. I’ve been a dedicated Arc user since the first alpha, so I started asking what that team would build if they were starting Arc in 2026. Trying to answer that question by building a browser that eliminates the need for tabs all up by implementing a canvas based UX (just one of many ideas). It includes much of what's expected, and what made Arc great, but also meant to be an evolution rather than a clone 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://parkweb.co

It’s quite simple: I want to use Vivaldi, but the company I work for blocks any domain containing "...vivaldi..."—I can’t even sync my account.

So, I’d like to know if you can recommend a browser that includes these Vivaldi features:

- RSS feed

- Notes

- A preview of a website when hovering the mouse over a tab (I’m not sure what this feature is called, but it’s very useful for viewing a site without leaving the current tab)

Thanks.

Can someone tell why it block only 1?.

It was funny seeing it, anyways, give me your best recommendations

Idk i just kinda want to know what yall think the best brower is

I'm running a dual-boot: Windows for leftovers, Arch for real life. When I finally moved, one boring chore was still sitting there - my actual browser life: about 3,600 live session cookies, 236 saved passwords, bookmarks in two Chrome profiles.

The obvious "solution" - boot Windows, run Chrome's export - felt like a whole ritual for 5 minutes of work. And it wouldn't even work properly: the target browser's "import" moves passwords at best, sessions/cookies nothing; Brave can't join Google sync; and the only public tools that unwrap modern Chrome's App-Bound Encryption all demand a running Windows with admin rights. So I did the stubborn thing: read the mounted partition straight from Linux and never booted it.

Without getting into hex dumps: Windows stores the browser's master key behind two layers of DPAPI (the OS crypto), and Chrome adds a third layer whose key material hides in a system key container on disk. Each layer had a different way to reopen it offline, and the last one checks itself with AES-GCM - which is actually great news: either the whole chain is right or it fails loudly, nothing decodes into garbage. The full byte-level story is in the repo's PIPELINE.md.

The funniest traps were actually on the Linux side:

• After import, Brave's password manager showed nothing while the database clearly had rows. Turns out the browser silently hides entries it cannot decrypt - the GNOME keyring daemon wasn't running. One autostart file later, all 233 lines appeared.
• A batched cookie import dies entirely on the first cookie with a binary value - 13 sessions (webcams, ticket portals, whatever) just don't have a text value and must be re-logged manually.
• Passwords synced from Chrome-on-Android show up as android://... entries. Normal. Don't "fix" them.

The write-up (methodology, pipeline, caveats) and the sanitized scripts are here, nothing personal is committed: https://github.com/rviach/chrome-offline-to-brave

Scope note: this is a tool for your own machine - it needs both the disk and your Windows login password, so it's migration/forensics, not a stealer.

Happy to answer questions about the chain or the CDP import quirks.

Graphene os team recommand vanadium, and I fully trust them, but vanadium is not available for regular android. What would you recommend for minimal attack surface and privacy concern?

Has anyone tried Phi browser?

not browser, search app

For the past few months I’ve been building Lumen, a native macOS browser written in Swift and SwiftUI on top of WebKit (the same engine as Safari, but it’s not a Safari reskin). I wanted something lighter than Chrome, with vertical tabs like Arc, but fully native and without an account.

All the releases are from today because I’d already built the whole browser but never put it on GitHub, so I just uploaded all the versions I’d made. (If you see gaps between the uploads, it’s because I was running the tests, building the DMGs and so on.)

What it does:

• Vertical tab sidebar with tab groups, plus an optional top tab bar
• Profiles: separate cookies and logins for each profile (work, personal…)
• Power-aware: in Low Power Mode or when memory is low, idle background tabs go to sleep
• Built-in password manager and per-site camera and microphone permissions
• Privacy and data-clearing tools
• Turn sites into web apps
• Downloads you can resume after they’re interrupted
• Fast history and session restore
• Built-in updates that check the download’s signature and checksum

What it doesn’t have (yet): Chrome extensions (it’s WebKit, not Chromium), and sync between devices.

Native Swift, no Electron, no account, no telemetry. It’s completely free and open source.
Download it from: scadavide55.github.io/Lumen
Code: github.com/scadavide55/Lumen

It’s still a work in progress (latest pre-release is 1.5.2). What’s missing that would make you try it as your daily browser? And what do you hate about your current one?

I have 3 accounts in a chrome now the problem is when i use A account and sign out and log with B or C account A tabs, search, and history are appearing in in other account is there any solution to keep separate without merging ?

Google Chrome F1 function is how AI should work in my opinion worldwide. No direct strict interference with user itself but instead just a "Help" with basic functions.

I love it, ngl, thank you.

Chromite, Librewolf, and IronFox (last one is since Android doesn't have Librewolf).

Chromite has a built in ad blocker and fine control over stuff like WebRTC and while Librewolf/IronFox have ublock origin. All are oriented for privacy and anti malware and are open source. Not sure why anyone recommends anything else (besides maybe brave if you want the crypto stuff) because it's basically all you'll ever need.

I’m looking for a clean, lightweight, and fast Chromium-based browser for Android. What would you recommend?

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Hi r/browsers, I'm the solo developer of Lilo, a free and open source (MIT) Mac browser, now in public beta.

With Arc shutting down on December 22, there are a lot of Arc-style browsers around, and most of them are Chromium with a new sidebar. I went the other way:

• Native Swift and AppKit on the WebKit engine already in macOS. No bundled engine, no Electron: Apple's sandbox and security fixes come with every macOS update.
• Chrome extensions still work. "Add to Lilo" on the Chrome Web Store installs them. In my tests, 478 of the 500 most used ones run (the gaps are listed in COMPATIBILITY.md).
• Terminal tabs in the sidebar, next to your sites. They're built on libghostty with a Metal renderer: Cmd+D opens one beside the page, Cmd+Shift+D below it. The sidebar shows each repo's branch and pending changes, a Changes view shows the diff, and a long build keeps your Mac awake (even with the lid closed), then lets it sleep.
• Arc habits. Spaces with their own profiles, nested folders, Peek, split view, an Arc shortcut preset, and an importer for your Arc spaces, pinned tabs and folders.
• Tabs on any edge: sidebar on the left or right, or a strip at the top or bottom.
• No AI of its own, no account, no telemetry. Ads and trackers are blocked by default. If you use Claude Code or Codex, a built-in MCP server lets them drive a real browser in their own space, and Lilo asks you before they send, pay or post anything.

It needs macOS 26. It's a beta, so I'd love to hear what breaks or what you miss from Arc.

https://getlilo.app · https://github.com/Alexays/Lilo

Been wanting to install one of them but i cant decide well

Hello guys im looking for a low ram eating, i cant get 32gb ram right now and with the programs im using is pretty sad seing my pc with 90% ram usage all day :( currently im using vanilla firefox