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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do any of these sync with the Firefox Android app? Or do they have their own?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Firefox sync works on all Firefox forks (I'm using LibreWolf on Linux and Fennec on Android for example)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Firedragon (a Floorp-Firefox mod) has its own sync server by default. But "Share/Send to" from Android Firefox to PC Firedragon works out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, thanks! How do they sustain the hosting costs? Donations?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're welcome.

I don't know about hosting costs. I do know that Firedragon is a side project of Garuda Linux, a volunteer-developed distro with a Donate page.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Don't tempt me into distro-hopping again ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Same here, best combo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did Fennec resurrect?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was it dead? If it was: Yes. Last update 15d ago (on the F-Droid version).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was. I was using it for a year or two until a couple of months ago when it seemed abandoned. Moved to IronFox in the meantime.

Good to hear it's up and running. Thanks!

Edit: I remember what and how: When DivestOS went under, Fennec did too. Don't know who's this who continued.