Comment by DoingIsLearning
1 year ago
> I recommend switching to an alternative browser which is only a browser, like Dillo, Ladybird, or Netsurf.
Did not know any of those alternatives thanks for sharing.
After a quick online search, I see they could work for casual browsing and it's great that they don't rely on Chromium
But do you think these can be a full browser replacement without extension ecosystems like ublock origin et al.?
Firefox was the last bastion of freedom on the internet and the replacements aren't ready.
> But do you think these can be a full browser replacement without extension ecosystems like ublock origin et al.?
I'm now actually trying to use qutebrowser as a replacement... it's not easy due to the lack of extensions, but mitigating factors are:
1. it has integrated adblock (though no cosmetic filtering) 2. there are userscripts to integrate with the Bitwarden CLI or a running instance of KeepassXC.
If you're on macOS, then Kagi's Orion seems good:
https://kagi.com/orion
It's been working fine for me anyway.
They are working on Orion for Linux this year as well
I pay for Kagi and I would definitely pay for Orion on Linux.
Thanks, that's extremely good news. :)
interesting they have resources to build a browser. also interesting (and sad) they focus on Apple and not Windows. Hopefull, they'll port it to Windows and Linux.
Worth mentioning that Orion is fully based on WebKit. Calling it a “Safari wrapper” would be unfair, but it’s also not extremely far from that either.
None of these three are currently suitable for casual browsing unfortunately.