Posted October 27, 2020 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 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 Reminder I'm just speaking from experience so what I say may not work 100% Please try searching up the answer before you post here but I am always glad to help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Ughh.... It's actually hard to answer. Since most browser these days are chromium based Remember! Reality Is An Illusion, The Universe Is A Hologram, Buy GOLD! Byeeee!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Opera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 1 minute ago, narrdarr said: Opera Opera is chromium based too Remember! Reality Is An Illusion, The Universe Is A Hologram, Buy GOLD! Byeeee!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Just now, PiberiusWilde said: Opera is chromium based too O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Firefox is pretty flexible and you can do pretty much whatever you want to it, but some folks would be water fox and tor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 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... F@H Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED GPD Win 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 https://technastic.com/5-open-source-web-browsers-for-linux-not-based-on-chromium/ Community Standards | Fan Control Software Please make sure to Quote me or @ me to see your reply! Just because I am a Moderator does not mean I am always right. Please fact check me and verify my answer. "Black Out" Ryzen 9 5900x | Full Custom Water Loop | Asus Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) | RTX 3090 Founders | Ballistix 32gb 16-18-18-36 3600mhz 1tb Samsung 970 Evo | 2x 2tb Crucial MX500 SSD | Fractal Design Meshify S2 | Corsair HX1200 PSU Dedicated Streaming Rig Ryzen 7 3700x | Asus B450-F Strix | 16gb Gskill Flare X 3200mhz | Corsair RM550x PSU | Asus Strix GTX1070 | 250gb 860 Evo m.2 Phanteks P300A | Elgato HD60 Pro | Avermedia Live Gamer Duo | Avermedia 4k GC573 Capture Card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 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??? Remember! Reality Is An Illusion, The Universe Is A Hologram, Buy GOLD! Byeeee!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, PiberiusWilde said: How 'bout Tor??? Tor isn't a browser, it's a network. F@H Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED GPD Win 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Sure but it's just a firefox fork, the only tor thing about it is it's preconfigured to use the tor network. F@H Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED GPD Win 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 50 minutes ago, narrdarr said: Opera Opera use to use its own engine Presto but is now based on Chromium My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Comodo IceDragon is a slimmed down Firefiox fork with it's own DNS and enhanced security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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. My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 Author 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 My Laptop: A MacBook Air My Desktop: Don’t have one My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it) My Favourite OS: Linux My Console: A Regular PS4 My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 27, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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