Top 5 Open Source Web Browsers

What are the top five free and open source web browsers in 2022? Well, in my opinion, the top five browsers are...
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[@distant6606]

1: Firefox 0:32 2: Ungoogled Chromium 4:16 3: Qutebrowser 9:00 4: Brave 12:30 5: Librewolf 16:15 Watch the video it has some really nice info :)

[@Anonymous4045]

Thanks man

[@distant6606]

@@Anonymous4045 np :)

[@YannMetalhead]

Thank you!

[@distant6606]

@@YannMetalhead np :)

[@lordvalen8133]

The numbering is in reverse order.

[@spud13y]

Firefox doesn't *really* exist on iOS. Apple mandates that every browser on iOS/iPadOS use the same engine as Safari so it's basically another reskinned version of that. Firefox on iOS also can't add extensions while on Android they can use some extensions.

[@ashishpatel350]

this. there should be an anticompetitive lawsuit against apple for this.

[@-someone-.]

The closest your gonna get is running UTM on iOS. A virtual machine. Firefox lives again. 👍

[@dermond]

wait so chrome is not on the apple store?

[@barbietripping]

@@ashishpatel350 truly. With their market share, they determine many of the features that will be supported on the mobile web

[@ashishpatel350]

@@barbietripping they went after Microsoft for doing far less and yet Apple gets away with it every time

[@Nomad-qm3zf]

Sticking with firefox. It's a fine browser and I honestly don't wanna do anything that reduces its market share and helps google's takeover even more so.

[@blogattacker]

I never use Firefox, but everytime I uninstall it Firefox appears again in my Ubuntu. I doubt the validity of Firefox market share.

[@johanb.7869]

Firefox for me too. User since version 1. The things DT mentioned like Pocket, VPN and such I have disabled in about:config.

[@johanb.7869]

@@blogattacker Try to remove Firefox on Linux Mint and it will install Chromium. Because of this: Something on your system depends on either firefox or chromium. If you run apt-cache rdepends firefox or apt-cache rdepends chromium, you can see which package depends on it.

[@blogattacker]

@@johanb.7869 Thanks

[@ivanalt]

newsflash: censorship shouldnt fly with the "free" community. if everyone goes to the next best alternative also serves as message

[@Krreko]

I mainly use Firefox because of the Multi Account Containers extension. I can be signed in to multiple email accounts from the same provider in the same browser window. Kinda neat.

[@wateryevents960]

Thank you DT, I've been using LibreWolf for 6 months and im loving it. Also I do like the tools built into Microsoft Edge (Dev Edition) for web dev.

[@dundyshibby]

Love your thought process for all of this! Definitely better takes than other Linux youtubers I've seen recently.

[@nikkehtine]

you don't have to be signed in to download stuff from chrome web store, you just need to be on a chromium browser that has APIs that communicate with it

[@crix_h3eadshotgg992]

Didn’t know this. Thanks.

[@drinkingmilk8877]

Oh thats awesome... Cheers thanks for doing this. Hey Distro.... How about a Top 5 Network monitoring tools built for Linux ??

[@QuotePilgrim]

I'll never leave Firefox because it was basically my gateway drug to the whole world of open source.

[@Kryqv]

Same!

[@QmVuamFtaW4]

for real man, but mozilla fked it up

[@mentalmarvin]

​@@QmVuamFtaW4 I don't care. It's still a great product

[@Little-bird-told-me]

I want to love firefox but I can't. Its almost there, but never really there for me.

[@QuotePilgrim]

@@QmVuamFtaW4 If you're talking about the "we need more than deplatforming" blog post they put out last year, I agree 100% with them. I wrote a detailed comment on another DT video explaning exactly why back then.

[@Prophet6000]

Librewolf is my number 1. I love it. It take a few changes to get working perfectly.

[@NOPerative]

Have definitely come to like Firefox again for its design and operation; I like tab syncing when developing or working in systems on separate machines. Smaller systems with modest hardware I like Falkon & Badwolf browsers; Falkon and Badwolf are incredibly responsive on systems with less ram & cpu power. Falkon plays youTube out of the box while Badwolf may take some configuration in some cases (depends on the platform and build). Badwolf actually allows you to turn off images and javascript for individual tabs. Haven't tested either really extensively, but am currently using them and can say "so far so good". I'm impressed, up front. Tab Bliss looks incredible! Crypto is an incredibly volatile market - high risk high reward; basic investing. Don't risk more than you can afford (disposable income). Good vid btw.

[@somemediocregamer]

Librewolf is great. It unfortunately isn't out for mobile but a great alternative is mull off F-droid.

[@pxnx]

or Kiwi (Chromium), or Fennec (Gecko)

[@s43m]

Iceraven(gecko) is the best. It supports the highest number of addons on android.

[@Videobe]

@SomeMediocreGamerTV ​ @pentexnyx ​ @sam I agree with the OP. I tried out both Mull and Bromite based on the recommendations in the tables you can find if you search for divestos Browser tables, and I really took a liking to Mull straightaway. I think I tried and fairly liked Kiwi before, but I don't think it is FOSS.

[@alexs5102]

I use Librewolf. It disables stuff like pocket and telemetry and it's got some security tweaks enabled out of the box.

[@Don_XII]

firefox >

[@johanb.7869]

You can disable what you mentioned in about:config. I did.

[@alcapuccino]

Hey DT, great videos love to see that your channel grow! Can you make a video about bedrock linux? That would be great content

[@spectr__]

Finally an honest browser list. Other creators are full of bs biases.

[@ddmozz]

Great video man :)

[@emcclure933]

I have switched to brave as my browser of choice. Anytime I change operating systems, it is the first thing I install. Thank you for recommending it to us.

[@TessaTheCat_]

I personally use librewolf as my daily web browser, and it has not given me many issues. On my manjaro kde system, I have had problems with regular firefox interacting w/ Dolphin, or often crashing my entire desktop once I try to move the window quickly. The only thing I have failed to do in librewolf was run Pandora (since 1 ad gives you a good chunk of music playtime). Otherwise, it's perfect for my everyday tasks.

Hey DT, do you know Godot Engine? It's a FOSS game engine that accepts a lot of different scripting languages. They developed a language called CDScript, that looks like Python, but has some similarities to C derived languages. Because it's open source, it has some unofficial add-ons, like the one that allows you to make your games using Python, or Ruby, Kotlin and other languages. It's very lightweight and powerful, and it doesn't use GTK or Qt, Godot's GUI was build using... Godot. Yes, they made most things from scratch. And it's multi platform, they only "problem" it that console companies don't integrate SDKs and Dev Kits with open source projects, because of licenses and stuff.

[@foxtro484]

It's called 'GD Script', but yeah, it's a great game engine. And after the recent events of the unity engine, godot is a better alternative.

[@belowdecent6494]

On mobile (android) using Firefox actually yielded a performance boost on a decent amount of sites, so because of that it kinda became my daily mobile browser

[@XexusNH]

I'd be interested in learning what open source text browsers you'd recommend. I used to poke at Lynx once in a while, though pulling up today I find it invokes the 406 error on sites hosted on my WHM shared-hosted server I rent due to the mod_security module.

[@kennystrawnmusic]

Brave is definitely my daily driver browser for the ad blocking alone - and for the fact that no Linux distros I’m aware of bundle it on their ISOs.

[@registeredblindgamer4350]

Amazing choice for LibreWolf as 1st. It really is the best!

[@-someone-.]

Great review...👊

[@ticcmii]

Agreed

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you 💜💜💜

[@Fareke2]

I hate when i open site to read some article and video ad pops up. Thats why i use adblock

[@peterschmidt9942]

I generally like using Firefox as a cross platform browser as I can port over Bookmarks, passwords etc no matter what system I'm on easily. Yes it's a bit of a memory hog (especially when you have a lot of windows open), but the fact I can be on any system and have my settings there is worth it. If I need a bit of performance, I'll use a chrome based browser like Brave, but that's rare. I didn't know it was available on iOS, so I might give it a whirl. The only thing I don't like about Brave is the way they setup sync between two browsers with their "catch phrases". I'd rather the way Firefox does it with an easy 6-digit number emailed.

[@nelsono4315]

I've been using Brave for about 2 years now and I absolutely love it

[@jorgschuster773]

Thanks for this video. You mentioned your phone. Did you ever consider to use a Linux phone? I would love to see a review of the Volla phone (dual boot ungoogled Android and Linux) and, perhaps, the Pinephone Pro on this channel.

[@dermond]

Now I realize that I've been using Firefox all my life.

[@norbydroid3430]

I cannot give a top 5 list, but like you, I am a big fan of the brave browser, and yes mainly because of the add blocking, Most of the browsers mentioned here I didn’t know about, except of course FireFox and Brave. I use Brave both on my Linux system and my iPad and I think it is well deserved for the second spot. Thanks for the list and I will be checkin out Librewolf.

[@astrac5258]

Hello, since you are a Brave for iOS user I have a question, do you consider Brave for your iPad to be simply a "skin" and are you really using the same engine that powers Safari (WebKit). I ask you since I saw some comments above that affirm this.

[@norbydroid3430]

I don’t know the answer to either question. I just downloaded Brave off the appstore and use it as my primary web browser.

[@eduardo_bray]

For FF and Chrome, Vimium is a plugin that let you use VIM-like shorcuts. Highly recommended for that J and K scroll and markers magic.

[@clemente_01]

As a mobile browser i strongly recommend Bromite, its ungoogled chromium with various tweaks that make it light and more secure

[@ordinarryalien]

Yep, I second this.

[@lua-nya]

No bromide for desktop?

[@ordinarryalien]

@@lua-nya The closest thing to the Bromite on desktop is Iridium Browser (Note: It doesn't get regular updates.). There's also Brave and Ungoogled Chromium. But I think Brave is the best Chromium-based browser on both desktop and mobile.

[@dang-x3n0t1ct]

@@ordinarryalien Iridium browser is not very well updated

[@lua-nya]

I mean, ideally I need to beat the RAM footprint of ungoogled but still have codecs available. Honestly only needing this thing for two tabs, I use a firefox browser as my main but certain features of two websites don't work well outside chromium browsers.

[@mrsansiverius2083]

My predictions: Firefox/Librewolf Brave Ungoogled chromium Qutebrowser And Tor (or maybe Pale Moon but I highly doubt it)

[@markN_CS]

By Firefox I would even go further and say, that, when you for example are watching videos or streams, the sound quality overall sounds better in Firefox, than in any Chrome-based browser. RAM-usage compared to MS Edge or Chromium is kinda the same or even a bit less. And I have like 9 extensions installed (ofc I tested both types of browsers with these 9 extensions installed) and killed the most of telemetry-crap in Firefox via about:config.

[@WillyJL]

Next time you do something like this also check out waterfox, it’s a fork of firefox with some interesting features, mainly chrome extensions support and private tabs (along with standard private windows)

[@luizfernandes1149]

Waterfox was bought by the Ad company System1. I know that if they do anything bad somebody will catch them, because wf is open source, but I personally still don't trust it.

[@longhoacaophuc8293]

Hi DT, how do you customize your new tab page on brave? it looks awesome!

[@shresthkumarlal285]

Heyy Derek 👋 Trinity is soo awesome and complete lightweight DE, A review would be great:-))

[@sarahross7515]

wait do you have an audio queue on the dmenu? it's neat btw

[@cluelessgamer8136]

Firefox 2, Brave 1. I don't understand the extra. Love the channel though, thanks for all the great content.

[@shifu9276]

Been using Brave as my sole browser for the last 4 years. Works great.

[@aehjr1]

Hadn't heard of LibreWolf, will have to give it a go.

[@YannMetalhead]

Good list.

[@JarrodHenry]

You also kind of nail Firefox for having a VPN (which is external) and adding features, but don't mention Brave having added a video meeting service, and an entire crypto wallet system (not just BAT, but full crypto services), and an IPFS server client, which all seems like a lot of extras too.

[@TheHivan]

Nice, l'll give them a try

[@scottb4029]

I think your list is right on the money. I too use brave, love it! But I'm slightly annoyed at it's slowing of performance. Seems like I have to do a lot of maintenance on the histories and caches to keep the quickness constant. Haven't found an easy solve for it yet. If that were fixed , I would place it at number one.

[@davidchristenes9062]

I'm curious about those problems, I use brave as my main browser, I never had such problems so far

[@scottb4029]

@@davidchristenes9062 I also use brave as my main browser. It might be a setting or a config problem with my system. But I'm not the only one running into this problem. Mostly it just slow on opening up initially, it s seems to be ok once it is underway. Clearing history and caches seems to fix the problem.

[@withercubes3295]

Expected surf to be on the list lol 🤣

[@faeeryn599]

Firefox, Brave, Librewolf and Epiphany. Epiphany is not there yet, but it's improving a lot and worth trying, I can't recomend it as primary browser but it's a good second choice.

[@84Actionjack]

Like Brave but still rely on FireFox. Like the feature where I can read articles without the fluff with 'reader view'.

[@tyh2989]

The Librewolf Appimage can toggle DRM content on/off . So no config file edit needed.

[@lloritoovidexequield.8609]

Hi DT, thanks for mentioning Librewolf, does said browser have a .deb or flatpak version we can download for installation?

[@ioneocla6577]

@@MandarinaMan1 yes? Librewolf has a flatpak

[@Ryan-ct3rv]

If you already have Flatpak installed with the flathub repository enabled you should just be able to do 'flatpak install librewolf'

[@MandarinaMan1]

@@ioneocla6577 I stand corrected

[@pjfsr7024]

LW has flatpak and Appimage , you can use either in most OS.

[@nevoyu]

Why good morning DT! Also you don't need to login to the chrome web store to install Chrome extensions... I don't know who told you that.

[@0xshaheen]

You can use vimium extension to achieve vim key bindings in most browsers

[@PHEEliNUX]

All of them require permission for literally everything, for some reason.

[@Notsk]

hey, I have a problem with Xmonad I find that when i want to full screen a KZbin video it doesn't fully full screen.

[@bstar777777]

On Linux Firefox has been fantastic for me. I have no reason to use anything else.

[@liquidmobius]

Same here. It also works very nice on FreeBSD.

[@johanb.7869]

For me too. User since version 1 and will never leave it. You can disable a lot of what some say is bloat, like Pocket, the VPN promo, telemetry etc.

[@IndronilBanerjee]

Why don't you consider user.js from arkenfox?

[@GoustiFruit]

Falkon is not *that* bad. I'm using Vivaldi, sometimes Brave when I need to do a lot of searches "in page" on several tabs (because there's been a "bug" in Vivaldi for a couple of months, and they still haven't fixed it), and occasionally I will use Falkon (for ex. after a fresh OS installation when there is no other browser installed yet): it's the fastest to start, and the default (rare) extensions are - almost - enough.

[@kevinyoungii9720]

I use to have Vivaldi, and for some reason it was slow on both of my machines.

[@GoustiFruit]

@@kevinyoungii9720 The launch is *a bit* longer than the others; once launched, it is as fast as the others, in my experience. Falkon seems to be the fastest, but then it only has the basic functionalities.

[@emilybh6255]

@MrAwesomeplus Thanks for that status on the Waterfox browser.

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

The same here, except for QT Browser. So I guess it's the top 4 for me. These are the browsers I use on my Windows computer. I also like to have Suckless Surf, Otter Browser, and Epiphany GNOME WEB on my machine. Of them, Surf and Epiphany do not have any Windows build.

[@jyuangrace4502]

Thank you sir! Librewolf for me :)

[@TheChrissutcliffe]

I flip flop between Firefox and Brave. My initial idea was to just use Brave for ad heavy sites but honestly, I just stay with one and several weeks or even months may go by and then I remember that I have the other installed and so I switch.

[@gogogogogogogogogogog9]

i love qutebrowser but using vim like keybing on gui interface is weird

[@AfroDanceWithZeAmazingBreezy]

What OS is that? Looks awesome

[@lloritoovidexequield.8609]

Watching this particular video on Brave Browser

[@nemogamma578]

Using mainly Brave, I found something strange on my computer: the chromium folder contains 1415 items for 133 mo, chrome folder 1401 for 205 mo, firefox 2837 for 230 mo, and brave 74585 items !!! for 950 mo, librewolf 100 items ??? and 19 mo. I'm wondering why Brave is so heavy ?

[@tobiasschmidt3978]

Cache? Typically it is saved in your profile folder.

[@nemogamma578]

@@tobiasschmidt3978 Thank You Tobias. Great.

[@MRXNeoYT]

Derek, I have a small question. I am using LinuxMint right now so are any other oses that are ubuntu based? I am an average user and I know a few terminal commands. I am looking for an option to switch to. Can you please select an os for me? eg: Zorin OS, Pop!_OS, Ubuntu etc.

[@coside7672]

Lm is a great choice, but if you want a different look you could try Pop!_OS.

[@MRXNeoYT]

@@coside7672 thx but I need to bele to open jar files instantly any other options?

[@Anonymous4045]

I'm surprised tor isn't somewhere in this list, ig it isn't optimal for daily driving. Anyways, I agree with most of the list aside from that. I really like firefox as a browser, but I don't like Mozilla. LibreWolf is perfect because it really is all of the plusses of firefox with none of the connections to Mozilla

[@spicynoodle7419]

It's just Firefox with 1 extra network protocol

[@Anonymous4045]

@@spicynoodle7419 And it's completely independent from Mozilla. In my opinion, Mozilla has been going south in the past few years and doesn't seem to support freedom for all as it used to, what with them wanting to censor certain people/groups and taking a paycheck from google for google to be the default search engine. Librewolf is a community-run project forked from firefox, so it has the performance quality of firefox but is designed more for the end user, and has no political bias or company control

[@MrJigglebits]

Brave let's you use tor inside of it

[@spicynoodle7419]

@@MrJigglebits yes but isn't as safe

[@spicynoodle7419]

@@Anonymous4045 LibreWolf is great

[@Little-bird-told-me]

I literally just installed ungoogled a few minutes ago, because it was available in popOS repository. This video is like dejavu.

[@MichaelWilliams-lr4mb]

I might give Brave another try. In the past, it started out fast for me, but within a couple of weeks, it would slow down really bad.

[@NebRadojkovic]

Clean cache...

[@MichaelWilliams-lr4mb]

@@NebRadojkovic I think I had tried that but it's been forever. But why would it get so slowed down within two weeks when compared to other browsers I use? I'm trying out Ungoogled Chromium right now and really like it so far.

[@NebRadojkovic]

@@MichaelWilliams-lr4mb Honestly, I often migrate between Firefox, Brave, Edge and Chromium. I think that it has to do more with my mood than anything else. I do know that I gate Brave and Firefox slow down and fatser again when I clean the cache. Another thing is that I use Linux 99% of the time, but if I end up using a browser in Windows I get all sorts of other problems to deal with.

[@rosmeartoo]

I'll stick with Firefox for the very reason that I used it from version 1.8, cross platform. In 2008 MS default was IE6, a security Swiss cheese, & Mac OS 10.4 came with Safari by default. firefox had the add-on Foxmarks that allowed a sort of bookmarks synchronisation to boot. Fundamentally, I dislike the intrusiveness of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and most especially Google. However, LibreWolf sounds a potential alternative, i already use LibreOffice having moved from OpenOffice.

[@xmvziron]

What's that application launcher you use? I like the sound of it!

[@DistroTube]

dmenu. The sound is not part of dmenu, but I have my xmonad keybinding to launch dmenu run two commands at once, (one is playing the sound, the other is running dmenu).

[@xmvziron]

@@DistroTube Wow, you made dmenu look like that? Mine is a simple bar on the top!

[@Ryan-ct3rv]

@@xmvziron I believe you can find all his configs on his website if you want to do something similar

[@TurbosmxOficial]

Firedragon is a nice fork of Firefox, almost identical to Librewolf but with better theming.

[@swmando888]

Hey DT, what do you think about "nala" package installer for Debian based distros. Is it worth using it rather than old and common "apt"?

[@tonyf5869]

You just watched that video didn't you? 😏

[@Dr._Spamy]

Do I get this right ? You need an Addon to install Addons right away without have to be locked in to your google account ? Seems not so "Ungoogled" to me.

[@joebruno2675]

1. Ungoogled Chrommium is my daily driver. If it does not work then I use Google Chrome. It has better addons then firefox and runs better. 2. Pale Moon is my favorite. It has the best addons and it looks the best. Unfortunately some major sites break web standards and do not work on it. Firefox is against free speech, hobbled their addons, and reduced customization. Not to mention they are in the pocket of google. Might as well use Chrome then at least you would have good addons and run faster.

[@roomCisco]

plz tell me which is the lightest among all of these browsers.

[@npaladin2000]

Librewolf's one problem is not having an Android version...and yeah, that stuff's spyware anyway, but some of us need the cross platform sync capability.

[@zcode9343]

I have been using my hardened config of ungoogled-chromium for about 6 months now and I love it, would highly recommend. With the right addons and settings it can be just as good, if not better than brave.

[@LeonidBraynerMyshkin]

Do you use the chrome web store plugin?How do you get around the extensions not updating automatically? That sucked for me, and also the unavailability on Debian. On arch the aur package would switch from binary to source on a whim.

[@zcode9343]

@@LeonidBraynerMyshkin i use the chromium web store extension

[@sprinklednights]

I stand with your opinion!

[@jr_Linux]

i've enjoyed brave but i heard that there adding some kind of data collection not sure when but im kinda sad. i tried out librewolf it works ok but on my older laptop it runs my cpu harder then a chromium "brave" browser does. so that's the nature of firefox lol. i tried to try out the ungoogled chrome but the extension thing didn't work and certain other things wouldn't read either. so im not sure about that one.

[@RadioTeal]

I am of two minds on this topic. On the one hand I see a great advantage if everyone could agree on one rendering engine for the web. On the other hand, I don't think one company should control that engine. But, having one standard which is agreed upon would be nice. However, both Google and Microsoft are about the dollar as any Corporation is. :-)

[@DanCojocaru2000]

There is one standard though?

[@RadioTeal]

@@DanCojocaru2000 True, but I meant why different engines to render HTML and or CSS. That is truly the standard for websites and even JS gets a lot of heat lately. I being born BI (Before Internet) being in college in 1990 got to witness the birth of the Internet as we know it. My first browser was actually NCSA Mosaic!

[@emilybh6255]

What do you think about "Waterfox" which is supposed to be a simpler more private "Firefox"?

[@ioneocla6577]

@@eepy_catgirl brave is also an advertising company. The difference between the 2 is that system1 (the company who owns StartPage and waterfox) still haven't done anything to break my trust

[@ioneocla6577]

@@eepy_catgirl it disables telemetry and useless firefox services like pocket out of the box and uses their StartPage search engine instead of Google

[@fcolecumberri]

The linux gamer: I don't like brave, you can't customize almost nothing. DT: I live brave, it's minimalist.

[@user-bc5vv1ug2g]

One thing which suck is video hardware acceleration on browser on Linux. It needs tweak to get it work.

[@johanb.7869]

I use the recommend performance setting on Firefox because hardware acceleration caused to many problems, like complete freeze, so nothing works anymore. And I can't see any difference in picture quality or less memory use or faster browsing.

[@petrlosev6611]

I use Firefox on modern PCs and Falkon on old ones.

[@thingsiplay]

There is a good reason why the TOR browser is based on Firefox. BTW if we speak about TOR, your list is missing this important browser.

[@Dr.Logistik]

10 out of 10 agree!!!!!!

[@Dr.Logistik]

Or would it be 5 out of 5.??? ...hmmmmm

[@BobbyPhoenix]

Brave browser has some proprietary code baked in. Surprised you rank it so high.

[@DistroTube]

Brave is licensed under the MPL (Mozilla Public License), a free and open source license. And that makes sense that they would use the MPL since the CEO of Brave is one of the original creators and former CEO of Firefox.

[@accounta09]

Good video but one major inaccuracy @ 6:00. You don’t have to sign into your Google account or Chrome to install and use extensions from Chrome Web Store. That’s just plain inaccurate. Whoever reads this, go try it yourself.

[@sub-harmonik]

the fact that firefox quantum, webkit, and chromium all exist as free and open source web engines makes me think that there isn't much danger of some google monopoly

[@ioneocla6577]

Yes but Google controls the chromium developement. That means that if a feature that benefits users but doesn't benefits Google, then they can just not implement it. And if firefox dies, it will be the end of browser competition. Also Google could just change the license and disallow forks or just make it proprietary

[@sub-harmonik]

​@@ioneocla6577 haven't a ton of people forked it although? wouldn't that only apply to code after the decision was made? So people could just continue basing web engines off of a recent commit before the license changes. I think there already are a good number of chromium-based browsers. That also goes for features too, I would think. If some feature isn't good for google some fork could just add it. Similar thing happened to senuti and I guess no-one continued development but that was a much smaller project.

[@konradzuse4778]

Firefox for the win in this list. At least since Chom[e,ium] doesn't allow me or you or anyone to do certain things on certain websites any more. For instance: to download KZbin videos! Firefox - no problem. What is next? I expect that these restrictions become more and more, the more of an monopoly Chrom[e,ium] becomes. Not to talk about the power over the web-standards, if there is only chrom[e,ium] is left. Firefox is very fast these days. I know it was a [tiny] bit slower for a while. I honestly never felt the difference, it was always measured in milliseconds. But some people felt it and made a big fuss about it. I believe these days are over now. DT made a lot of videos about how bloated the internet is. There are technical limits for how fast a browser can be, if nothing changes on the server side. Choosing Firefox - beyond its advantages - is very much choosing democracy over tyranny.

[@SomeOne-rh5so]

I still like Fox even it's going down, definitely will check Librewolf - sound good about telemetry, Brave gave me a lot of pain when I decide remove it. even after Synaptic it was shit in distro, Vivalldi also became bad. Thanks!

[@warhawk_yt]

Librewolf is great. I use it as my main. It’s pretty much firefox but with the telemetry and some features like pocket stripped out. It’s pretty much a hardened firefox but the hard work is already done for you. They are also usually quick to update when a new version of firefox is released. I think the longest I have seen is usually about 3 days which can be a downside but that is fast compared to most other forks.

[@user-he4ef9br7z]

Librewolf is Firefox for normies. If you harden Firefox yourself it's better than LibreWolf.

[@SomeOne-rh5so]

@@warhawk_yt Now it will be my main too! After test, feel that it's exactly what I'm looking for. it's good p reconfigured. Thank thank you !

[@GXShade]

Biggest complaint about brave is all the crypto stuff I don't hate crypto

[@cbbcbb6803]

IE once had the top spot in terms of user base. Mozilla hung in there and remained strong. I think Firefox will continue.

[@Rotceev]

I like some of obscure web browsers: Elinks - for the fancy-themed terminal based websearches, for faast snappy information-getting Falkon - for the lightning fast turn-on and google, image, full-website, and good looks with my qt-kvantum theme BadWolf (havent tested yet, but I am quite interested to take a look in coming days) Librewolf is basically better than Firefox. turns on faster, and I feel much more safe and clean with it.

[@akashmanjunath2505]

I think Min browser deserves a spot here. It just does the job you know.

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

Firefox is the browser for me. I don't know what users find that Firefox consumes more memory than Chrome? On my 16Gb machine I can use FF with my typical handful of tabs (I'm not a tab hoarder, bookmarks ftw imo) and a full XFCE session

[@sys7emH4cked]

Hey DT, Can you tell me your all browsers themes please 🥺 ...... Because I also have 5 to 6 browsers in my machine and i all time confused with my themes please 🥺

[@z3r0mus]

Vieb is one of my fave recently.

[@user-he4ef9br7z]

My daily drive browser.

[@adam.southside]

I use WaterFox - very nice browser

[@ISCARI0T]

are those browsers available on temple os?