Best non chromium browser which is not Firefox or Safari

[Sandro Linux]

I have been looking for a browser based on something that is not chromium and is not just Firefox or Safari, although it can be a Firefox Fork. I am on Mac so don’t suggest anything that is not compatibly with it please. EDIT: It can be webkit based 

[Kanna]

2 minutes ago, Sandro Linux said:

I have been looking for a browser based on something that is not chromium and is not just Firefox or Safari, although it can be a Firefox Fork. I am on Mac so don’t suggest anything that is not compatibly with it please. 

May I ask why no chromium and no Firefox 

[PiberiusWilde]

Ughh.... It's actually hard to answer. Since most browser these days are chromium based

[narrdarr]

Opera

[PiberiusWilde]

1 minute ago, narrdarr said:

Opera

Opera is chromium based too

[narrdarr]

Just now, PiberiusWilde said:

Opera is chromium based too

O

[narrdarr]

Firefox is pretty flexible and you can do pretty much whatever you want to it, but some folks would be water fox and tor

[Kilrah]

Seems you don't have much choice other than waterfox.

 

But then why is firefox not OK while a fork is, and not the same on the Chrome side...

[Skiiwee29]

https://technastic.com/5-open-source-web-browsers-for-linux-not-based-on-chromium/

[Sandro Linux]

37 minutes ago, Kanna said:

May I ask why no chromium and no Firefox 

I do not want chromium dominating the market and Firefox just is not that privacy respecting anymore and Mozilla seems to make most of its money from Google and I also want to try something new

[Nayr438]

Most web browsers make use of chromium (Chrome) or gecko (FireFox).

 

Safari and Gnome Web use WebKit, however Safari is for MacOS and Gnome Web is intended for the Gnome Desktop on Linux. They have weird compatibility as well.

Konqueror uses KHTML, but it has only received security updates since 2016 as QT moved to a chromium fork known as QTWebKit and Konqueror has been mostly replaced by other browsers. Linux Only, over complicated, poor compatibility.

Pale Moon and Basilik are built from Goanna, which is a fork of gecko. Still based on Firefox.

Then there is NetSurf, which uses its own engine and I know almost nothing about.

 

With that said, you can check here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

If you don't want something chromium based, then you will probably want something gecko based and vice versa.

[PiberiusWilde]

2 minutes ago, Sandro Linux said:

I do not want chromium dominating the market and Firefox just is not that privacy respecting anymore and Mozilla seems to make most of its money from Google and I also want to try something new

How 'bout Tor???

[Sandro Linux]

1 minute ago, Nayr438 said:

With that said, you can check here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

If you don't want something chromium based, then you will probably want something gecko based and vice versa.

Seen that wikipedia article before, I posted this because I just wanted to know what peoples experiences with them have been, since you can not get that kind of knowledge from a wikipedia article

[Kilrah]

  

2 minutes ago, PiberiusWilde said:

How 'bout Tor???

 

Tor isn't a browser, it's a network.

[Sandro Linux]

2 minutes ago, PiberiusWilde said:

How 'bout Tor???

A bit too slow and I also don’t like how you get captchas everywhere when you use it

[Sandro Linux]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Tor isn't a browser, it's a network.

You can get a browser called Tor Browser

https://www.torproject.org

[Kilrah]

Sure but it's just a firefox fork, the only tor thing about it is it's preconfigured to use the tor network. 

[Sandro Linux]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Sure but it's just a firefox fork, the only tor thing about it is it's preconfigured to use the tor network. 

It also has some privacy twicks and has https everywhere and no script

[Sandro Linux]

50 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

Opera

Opera use to use its own engine Presto but is now based on Chromium 

[Sandro Linux]

25 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

https://technastic.com/5-open-source-web-browsers-for-linux-not-based-on-chromium/

All of them are either Linux only or are dead except from tor

[LWM723]

Comodo IceDragon is a slimmed down Firefiox fork with it's own DNS and enhanced security.

[narrdarr]

6 minutes ago, Sandro Linux said:

It also has some privacy twicks and has https everywhere and no script

Which you can down and use on other browsers. 

Is ghostery still decent or is it trash nowadays?

[Sandro Linux]

5 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

Is ghostery still decent or is it trash nowadays?

I use ghostery on my browser and it is quite good and I find the Ultimate test for adblock is to go to msn.com or yahoo and see if the ads still load and they don't with ghostery.

[Sandro Linux]

6 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Comodo IceDragon is a slimmed down Firefiox fork with it's own DNS and enhanced security.

I wish it was on mac 

[narrdarr]

1 minute ago, Sandro Linux said:

I use ghostery on my browser and it is quite good and I find the Ultimate test for adblock is to go to msn.com or yahoo and see if the ads still load and they don't with ghostery.

Yes I use it too with abp and https everywhere.