Is there a privacy-centric open source browser that follows web standards and doesn’t come with any unfortunate baggage in the room? It’s time to find out.

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In the end, I looked for two candidates, one each from the Firefox and Apple/Google orbits. I tried them all, and settled on LibreWolf from the former, and Vivaldi from the latter. LibreWolf because it’s done a fine job of making Firefox without it being Firefox, and Vivaldi because its influence from the early Opera versions gave it a tiny bit of individuality missing in the others. I set up both with my usual Hackaday bookmarks, tabs, and shortcuts, changed the search engine to the EU-based Qwant. I’m ready to go, with a bit more control over how my data is shared with the world once more.

Why Vivaldi though? It's closed source, which should disqualify it from their initial statement of considering open-source browsers.

Librewolf

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I'm using librewolf now, after Mozilla actions.

Vivaldi and Librewolf are good recommends. So good call by the author.

I wish I could completely ditch Blink based browsers for Gecko ones, just because I dislike how dominant Blink is thanks to Chrome. But some sites don't render correctly on Gecko. So a fallback is needed.

Edit: I haven't used Vivaldi in a long time, and apparently it's not what I thought it was. Are there really no outstanding open source Blink-based browser out there?

To me the killer feature is the ability to send my tabs to any device I have. Without it it's impossible for me to ditch Firefox, I rely too much on this feature.

Been with Vivaldi even when it was uncool to be with Vivaldi. The recent incorporation of Proton felt really dirty / sketchy ad pushing. I hope Librewolf takes off, I'm guessing that's where I will head when Vivaldi completely jumps the shark.

I’ve dumped FF for Zen and Waterfox.

Zen’s only downside is that it can’t play some DRM media like some sports websites. Waterfox can, so I use it for that.

I've switched to Floorp which feels like a more modern Firefox/LibreWolf to me

librewolf/ff nightly

but i miss netscape and pre version 40 firefox

I have like 5 different Firefox forks depending on how much memory usage I can afford to spare at the time I need to look something up

I like Zen.

I’m really enjoying Orion on iPhone and Mac

I was pretty happy with Zen until updates started to bring in some bugs and lag. It takes up the most resources to start and the URL bar peeks out a majority of the time in compact mode. If you prefer new tabs and are in compact mode the side tabs don't hide and cover a large part of your bookmarks bar while on a new tab page and it feels messy.

I went back to Floorp for a bit, but inevitably ended up back on Qutebrowser. The only downside to Qute is half the greasemonkey scripts to bypass YouTube ads don't work and the python-adblock plus Brave adblock don't block first party ads.

You can get around the first problem by adding a shortcut to bring up weblinks that open in MPV, but I haven't found a solution to the second problem yet.