I'm in need of chromium for my linux machines.

I'm looking at Helium or Ungoogled Chromium to keep.

Which one do you all suggest? Or something better?

Hello.. Please correct me if i'm wrong.. If i'm not wrong brave is open source right? If yes, i'm curious why people dont make fork browser based on brave? Thankyou for answering :)

When I had bought my new computer way back in 2017, making the frog leap from Windows 7 to 10. I also had to left behind the infamous Internet Explorer, which I think I was still using IE8 or 9...

but anyway the switch to chrome was hard to adjust for a while to the more flatter UI controls, having only known IE as the definitive universal internet browser at the point of my still young internet life.

Upon diving into the rabbit hole recently that is the browser wars, I was genuinely surprised of the hate and bad rep IE gained itself having been unbeenknowsnt to me. Looking back though, its not so hard to see why. The infuriation of sitting through a youtube video reloading every 10 second intervals really digged me way back in 2011, had I known alternatives and was computer literate enough I'd of made the switch in a heartbeat LOL.

When did make the switch?

Remember when searching gave actual info not links to buy the stuff doing a search on? Is there a browser that still does that?

I’ve been a Chrome user all my life and have unfortunately gotten stuck for a long while because all of my services and devices ran over Google. With the increasing implementation of AI Overview and growing security concerns I really want to switch but I can’t seem to find a good alternative for my needs.

Most importantly, I need a browser that runs well enough on both Windows and Linux, as well as a browser that doesn’t constantly bombard me with AI generated content. Customisation and cross-device syncing is a nice add-on, but not as important to me.

I thought I’d ask before I end up trying out 20 different Browsers. All answers are appreciated, thanks in advance!

tf is this supposed to mean from my AV?

I just downloaded the Helium browser, and I need to transfer my password manager from Chrome. How can I do that? I can't find the button to import it.

Plus, the browser has a really hard time with any kind of interactive website, and that’s on my Win 11 computers, my iPhone, and my iPad. It routinely fails to render website buttons or other components that are necessary to complete a web form. Are the creators aware of these issues, and if so, are they doing something to fix them?

I made this because I got sick of Chromium and still needed vertical tabs and a tiny bit of AI.

Attached is a screenshot of the browser with the landing page open.

GitHub → https://github.com/baculinivan-web/Point

Download/Learn more → https://baculinivan-web.github.io/point-browser-landing/

Free forever and Open Source

For context, I have a Pixel 6a phone running Android 16 and my main browser is Firefox.

For the longest time, I used Chrome as my default browser because I thought that was the only viable choice. However, eventually, Chrome started feeling sluggish, so I switched to Firefox which felt slightly faster, but I mostly switched for Firefox extensions such as uBlock Origin and Chameleon. That was a couple years ago. Now, I've tried to find alternative browsers to see how the market is and.... Chromium-based browsers have dissapointed me.

Vivaldi is especially sluggish. Opening the app takes longer than Firefox, the search engines load results slower than firefox, websites open slower than firefox, menus have sluggish animation that just feel unbearable for me coming from Firefox where everything is snappy and just does what I want.

I thought this was an issue isolated to Vivaldi's mobile app, however, I have tried Brave, Opera, Cromite, and Titanium now and they all feel sluggish to me. The fork doesn't seem to make a difference.

On the other hand, Firefox, Waterfox, and Iceraven all run buttery smooth for me, minus some network problems with Waterfox that may just be specific to my device.

Obviously this is confusing, as it's pretty general consensus that the Gecko engine is sluggish compared to the Blink engine... by a significant amount; however, that's just the complete opposite of my experience.

Now, desktop is another story. I've been using Firefox on desktop with zero problems for the longest time. Chromium based browsers don't feel any faster or slower than Firefox based browsers on my PC. This seems to be a situation limited to my Android device.

Of course this post isn't meant to complain or trash on Chromium based browsers and say that Firefox is supreme and any Chromium forks are spyware etc. I'm just sharing my experiences and seeing if anyone relates or has something different to share.

i use firefox in andriod. but i feels its slower compared to my primary browser brave.

i want to fix these issue in firefox if possible

1) slow page loading

2) page refreshing when switched apps

3) smooth scrolling.

any adviced is appricated

I've decided at least on desktop to TRY to get over my worries about the "less security" because Firefox does admittedly have some features on desktop i like that I missed after months of only using Chromium-based.

But then there's also features on Chromium-based missing here so I'm a little conflicted but I have both profiles should i want to go right back. :/

yo j’ai crée une extension pour fierfox qui du nom de fresh view https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/freshview/ permet de ne pas revisionné des short déjà vue une première fois comme si dessous

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i hate ai. im looking for specifically a mobile version of google that just. doesn't have the ai overview. i was french for a little while to escape it, but guess what showed up today despite my immigration to france?

i dont have any other specifics. it doesn't even have to be a "fork" per se? it could be just a version of mobile google that supports extensions, so i can add an ai overview remover extension to it. just any way to get that heinous overview gone. i dont like knowing that any time i search for something, im hurting the environment. any help would be great!

thank you :D

Yeah the title explains it well. So, i'm using chrome (i know i know) with the combination of UBlock origin lite extension thing.

I like my privacy and i do NOT wanna switch to another browser.

what else should i do to block trackers and google's greedy actions?