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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.

If you want to torture yourself like any good Linux user, you get Ungoogled Chromium.

none. chromium is a google (-endorsed) product, who put their own little tracking tidbits into the chromium project. if you still want to use a chromium-based browser, i have two 'suggestions':

• brave. renowned in the privacy community but has had a few suspicious moments, and honestly i just don't trust their whole big-tech thing they got going on.
• ungoogled-chromium. basically just the chromium browser but without the google shit in it. no extra privacy-advancing features as far as i'm aware though, and extensions don't seem to work.

now if you really want a good browser, go for either of the following firefox-like browsers:

• firefox with arkenfox user.js. firefox as you know and love it, with the arkenfox privacy tinkering. i haven't tested it and its apparently a bit difficult to install and configure, but i've heard its really helpful with privacy.
• librewolf. a privacy-first firefox fork developed by an independent developer and contributors, no big-tech bullshit. my personal daily driver.

anyway, sorry for the rant, but there u go.

Which sites work better in Chrome? I'm forced to use the Google suite at work, and I do everything within Firefox. Even sites that insist they only work in Chrome have always worked for me merely by switching the user-agent header

Honestly none of them. You can have my firefox when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

Firefox

Arc (Mac-only for now) is pretty great and has been my daily driver for a while now. Lots of great quality-of-life improvements, a great approach to tab management, and new optional AI features that are useful instead of annoying.

Thorium, because its fast, lightweight and open-source.

I switched from Firefox to Vivaldi last year and never regretted it. I like the ad blocking that it has as standard and the uBlock origin plugin makes it 99% perfect. It's pretty light weight and the tab stacks work good. No clue if those stacks are chromium or vivaldi, but they work.

I don't use one but I did watch a YouTube video yesterday praising one called thorium. I might give it a try myself out of curiosity.

I switched to Thorium browser, seems pretty good. There's also Tempest Browser which is still in Beta, but is a bit like Brave but without the Crypto and some other features. I recommend Thorium, tbh. Seems to work well and has a lot of performance patches added, as well as security. More here: https://youtu.be/naDYUVFs1-8?si=eC1CtA4q-oF1L8ix

For chromium, brave, though I'd just stick to Firefox it I were you

Vivaldi. Why? Highly cuztomizable.

Though slower than other chromium based browsers.

chromium

Just native Chromium, or if you don't want any Google stuff, Ungoogled Chromium. They both use the same UI as Google Chrome. I recommend these because they have no such bloat, and if you want a chromium-based browser for rare usage, it does it's thing.

On an unrelated note, I use GNOME Web on Linux and Safari on macOS (they are both based on WebKit). GNOME Web has some problems, but I can't give up the animation of two finger scrolling between pages and smooth scrolling on touchpad. I use Firefox as a fallback browser on Linux, because I have never really needed something that is specifically Chromium.

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/

I just use Chromium and go through all settings once to disable every function that isn't "show me the website behind the URL I just typed". Then I install ublock and switch the default search engine to Qwant.

I'm in the same boat!

Just disable the crap and keep using Brave.

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.