What are some good non chromium browser alternatives besides Firefox and Safari?

zhvsrl, 10 months ago

Like everyone else is saying: there only really are chromium (blink), firefox (gecko) and Safari (WebKit). All other functional modern browsers are based on those. It's best to stick to one of them or a well known fork and customized them to your liking.

skullgiver, 10 months ago

You can get most of Safari through GNOME Web if you’re on Linux. You can use various Firefox forks if you don’t like Firefox itself.

That’s about it, to be honest. Ladybird is being built but it’s far from complete yet. You can use Lynx and friends if you want to give terminal only browsing a go. Servo is pretty complete but Mozilla dropped them and development had been affected.

IE, Edge, and Opera all used to have their own browser engine. Now we just have three engines left, two if you ignore the meagre 4% market share Firefox still maintains.

anderfrank, 10 months ago

Orion

cwagner, 10 months ago

Everything else are not full browsers. There’s one (Flow) that’s mainly targeted at selling to TV and set-top box manufacturers, and there’s one that’s a hobby project that evolved from PoC to being useable (Ladybird), but both only support a subset of modern web features.

takeda, 10 months ago

Opera once wasn’t as shady and had their own engine. It was quite snappy and low on resources.

It is a shame they didn’t open source their engine when they switched to Chrome.

Someone leaked the source code, but of course no one serious will touch it.

Ashiette, 10 months ago

If you really want a “full” browser experience, there was konqueror a few years back. I don’t know how reliable it is these days.

If you wish for a ‘minimal’ and lightweight but functional browser experience you can try midori.

falsem, 10 months ago

Fun fact, konqueror is the progenitor of Safari and Chrome.

Atemu, 10 months ago

That’s the thing, that’s it.

Firefox (Gecko), Chromium (Blink) and Safari (Webkit) are the only serious browser engines left.

Every other remotely relevant browser is just a rehash of these and it’s usually from really shady for-profit companies such as Opera or Brave.

nottheengineer, 10 months ago

There’s also Falkon, which has its own engine, but it’s far behind the others. Firefox is the only good choice in my opinion.

Destragras, 10 months ago

Falkon uses a Chromium wrapper https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-overview.html

nottheengineer, 10 months ago

Thanks, didn’t know that. The name Qtwebengine is a bit misleading.

Atemu, 10 months ago

qtwebengine is chromium? I always thought it was webkit…

zhvsrl, 10 months ago

It used to be. This change is also news to me. Really sad tbh.

ono, 10 months ago

It’s Chromium.

doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-overview.html#qt-weben…

doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-overview.html#qt-weben…

Chromium was once based on WebKit (it has since diverged) so perhaps that’s what gave you that impression?

Atemu, 10 months ago

There was qtwebkit, that’s where I got the expression from.