Which obscure browser do you daily drive?
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The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
I use floorp (firefox fork) because I like having the tabs at the bottom. Makes them closer to the taskbar and a bit easier to navigate.
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I don't think there are any viable engines other than the three you mention. Other browsers than the three you mention are viable, I am typing this in LibreWolf, but they are all based on one of these three engines.
I recently tried Ladybird and it crashes e.g. when I try to access my Lemmy instance. Definitely not viable yet in 2025, but this doesn't mean it must remain so.
I mean it isn't even in beta yet.
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I use 4 different browsers, on desktop and mobile. No standard browser.
I'm just curious, why?
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The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
Falkon for clearweb
Librewolf for Tor
Netsurf for i2p -
I'm just curious, why?
Just using them for different tasks. I think its helping me not to be "addicted" to one system. Just like not putting all eggs in one basket
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GNOME Web (Epiphany)
I kind of daily drive it as I made webapps with it for some services I host (which Firefox still doesn't offer natively)
The UI is quite nice but it isn't always the smoothest in terms of performances. Still, a very respectable effort
Epiphany is making headway. It’s gotten much better in the last year or so.
I can still crash it with too many tabs, JS sometimes makes it crash, and the extension experience is bad, but it’s gotten better.
It is covered by WebKit call out though.
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I’ve been using Orion on iOS for a while. It’s not bad.
They are porting to Linux was just announced not long ago... however dont know how long that will take. I am just gonna keep using FF until I can try Orion.
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The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
If you want obscure, I can recommend Lagrange. It can browse only gemini pages though, so you can't visit your favourite html websites.
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Falkon for clearweb
Librewolf for Tor
Netsurf for i2pIsn't accessing TOR network from any other browser than Tor Browser a serious anonymity risk?
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If you want obscure, I can recommend Lagrange. It can browse only gemini pages though, so you can't visit your favourite html websites.
Gemini is so weird and cool! My first day with it really made me want to start a little microblog on it or something
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The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
Cannot wait to try Ladybird in a somewhat stable form.
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The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
Lynx.
If I don't need image or video content, it's great.
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Isn't accessing TOR network from any other browser than Tor Browser a serious anonymity risk?
Mayhaps. I shall investigate.
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The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.
Iceraven, it let's me install desktop firefox extensions on android.
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I'm trying out waterfox for mobile and librewolf for desktop. No complaints so far
where did you get Waterfox on Android? The Playstore or F droid?
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where did you get Waterfox on Android? The Playstore or F droid?
Used F-Droid to download aurora store (open source client for the play store) and used Aurora for waterfox....
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Used F-Droid to download aurora store (open source client for the play store) and used Aurora for waterfox....
thanks, i asked because the Google PlayStore has WaterFox from waterfox.net. Not sure if this is real or fake, because other Fox forks can only be installed from Fdroid like Mull/Fennec
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