I use Firefox as my daily driver but sometimes sites just work better on a chromium based browser. I had been using Brave but it seems like they keep adding on more bloat (crypto, VPN, AI) and I’m over it.

What chromium based browser would you recommend and why?

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    8 months ago

    Put in another vote for Vivaldi. It’s definitely lightweight. I’ve got an older server I keep around (for YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE-DEE purposes) and Vivaldi’s the Chromium-based browser that works best on it.

    That said, the default browser I use on that thing is Waterfox Classic. Vivaldi’s lightweight, but it’s not as light as that.

    Another note: a few years ago I would’ve actually been able to recommend Edge because to my surprise it actually worked pretty damn well, especially if you were trying to get sites to get Windows-oriented web-apps to function correctly on Linux. Unfortunately they’ve since pushed several changes that have made it truly obnoxious. Big fat memory hog that tries to load “recommended” content in the background and won’t stop sending to/receiving from sites even after you close the window/tab.

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    8 months ago

    I don’t use chromium, did not test currently.

    But I just saw a video about a chromium browser : Thorium.

    It’s chromium but with many hardware acceleration, speed, and compatibility enhancements coming from multiple sources and from the guy developing it on github, making it very fast and nicer to use than default chromium.

    It has Google sync, so it’s not ungoogled, but it has way less bload and more privacy than chrome.

    https://youtu.be/naDYUVFs1-8?si=Rd6Un0OKANEQHktH

    The link to the browser website : https://thorium.rocks/

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    8 months ago

    I use Chrome! It’s nice how it syncs with my Google profile.

    If I need 2 browsers for some reason, I also use Edge.