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[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd be happy to switch away the moment someone recommends me a better chromium based option.

Firefox just doesn't work for my use case. I know it's pithy, but their dev tools suck, and the history menu is dogshit. And since my main use case is pulling up recently used pages, that's a huge impediment for me.

I'd switch to vanilla Chromium, but it's (reasonably because of what it is) super feature poor. Not having a good way to device sync on Linux basically makes it a non-starter for me.

So what's my alternative? What browser should I use? It's a genuine question, as I've tried several, and Brave is the only one that's remotely usable for my use case.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thorium, vanadium, et ceteraium. Do some searches and you'll find plenty of chromium projects that are reasonable replacements even if they aren't 1-to-1 feature sets.

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Last time I looked, any other Chromium alternative had me making negative feature tradeoffs.

I may circle back and look again, as it's been a bit since I cut over to Brave.

Have you used those and can vouch for them having inter-device history sync? Cause not having that is a hard blocker for me.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't any browser do that if you sync the profile folder somehow?

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure, notionally. I could also write my own browser from scratch and make it to my exact specifications.

I've lived in "cobble together everything I want using a combination of half a dozen browser extensions and bash scripts" land before, and I'm old enough now to realize that maintaining systems like that is almost never worth the time or effort.

It's worth it if that's your hobby, but I have more interesting projects to work on than getting a baseline Chromium or whatever up to a usable state.

So when there's a 95% answer for my use case, it's a hard sell to get me to switch to an 80% solution where I need to jury rig the last 15% to just break even with the out-of-the-box option.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't care about my tabs being synced, I just use kdeconnect if I want a link on another device and most of the time I keep their content fairly disjointed. I just happen to know multiple people who did it that way and haven't complained yet.

I do believe LibreWolf lets you use Firefox sync for tabs and history if you want to.

Also I have no idea what your setup is. If you already have a NAS setting up a shared profile could take less time than installing the browser.

You asked for options, then mentioned a problem you had with those offered and I just gave you a solution that works for all of them.

Also doing "15%" (the features a browser offers on top of basic functionality are so much less 10% and I don't need half of them) myself is usually worth it for me in exchange for privacy, a more permanent foss solution, and ethics. Though to be fair I have never needed more than an hour for that for any software other than my text editor. Mostly it's the last "4%" of things I'd like that take longest

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[–] karzenous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Used Fennec

[–] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Can you recommend a better browser that offers similar capabilities as brave, doesn't have ai, and has a mobile app?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Firefox with Ublock Origin.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't have AI

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry why are we mad at Meredith?

[–] bunchberry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I tried Brave. Didn't like that it had a crypto ads on the new tab page. I also didn't like that it has some weird built-in point system that you can turn off but randomly turns itself back on and glitches out. Back when I used to use Twitter (formerly X) dot com, it would show weird point counters next to every Tweet and the ability to disable it didn't work.

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can I get a recommendation for a better ad-free browser on iPhone?

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Shit wait what

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