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I saw in one of the comment saying "We need alternative browsers." So, what are the best alternatives to Chrome, Mozilla and Opera. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml to c/decentralized@lemmy.ml

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[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I think the crux of the issue should not be just about diversifying the market share. The more important factor is that web standards are basically decided by large corporations especially Google which is what should be more democratic.

The process of Chrome dominating the browser ecosystem is more top-down than people give it credit for. No other organization or corporation can compete with Google because of ridiculous amount of capital they have. They will be playing catch-up with the web standards that Google will be implement better since they decided what they are anyways.

[–] ailiphilia@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

https://librewolf.net

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like lagrange for browsing the web on desktop and I use deedum on my phone.

[–] erpicht@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

It would be prudent to mention these are Gemini protocol browsers, and don't support HTTP. Great programs though, I use them too.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

links

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

lynx

[–] erpicht@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Links (use -g for graphical mode) is hands down the fastest web browser I've ever used, which makes a huge difference for computers with less memory.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

yes it seriously rocks. going straight to the point, eliminating most of the cruft of "modern" web. i am always surprised by how well rendered, how usable are pages in links...

and websites that don't render well in links? well it usually means they rely on shit technology i dont want to use anyways...

[–] sgtnasty@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unique browser engines (not based on chrome or mozilla):

Chrome based:

https://qutebrowser.org/

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

With servo, it is pretty much a dead product at this point. It was primarily a research project in Mozilla, and with some recent pruning that Mozilla has done that leaves Servo inactive. It does still live on in Firefox as Firefox slowly migrates various components to Rust.

At this point, it is nearly impossible to write a from scratch engine from what I have heard. The number of standards and idiosyncrasies are too immense for it to be economical. Sure you can pass this test or that, but getting it to work on all sites is going to be much harder.

[–] nerdyguy1990@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Librewolf, Beacon browser, Catalyst, Ninetails, Otter browser, etc

[–] kok@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

forks I guess. librefox, vivaldi

[–] cipres@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I work on galacteek, a P2P browser that uses IPFS and RDF extensively and supports ENS.

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's an IPFS, RDF and ENS.

[–] cipres@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

IPFS: Interplanetary FileSystem. It's a peer-to-peer filesystem and much more

RDF (Resource Description Framework): a standard model for data interchange on the Web. It's a linked-data format that uses triples (subject-predicate-object).

ENS: Ethereum Name Service. It's a domain name system that lives on the Ethereum blockchain, it's like DNS on the blockchain.

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

Konqueror, maybe ?

Opera has been based on chromium for some time now.