I don’t like Chrome or Firefox, and I was already having problems with Firefox such as with their extension certificates expiring and taking days to update that. Still don’t understand why they needed such a feature.

But what is a good fork for Firefox that does not keep the ad network and the ai features, while keeping everything else up to date.

I am looking for a good alternative browser, after trying WebKit, I found that WebKit generally isn’t the most responsive browser engine and this doesn’t have much to do with the hardware being used, as that other browser engines like Gecko and Blink perform notably smoother on the same hardware.

Qtwebengine on Falkon browser actually worked fine for me but knowing that qtwebengine is essentially Chromium I want an alternative, even though it works fine performance wise. Unfortunately it seems Firefox forks are the only direction to take.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 days ago

    Keep in mind, should Mozilla/FF go full tilt enshittification all the FF forks will eventually be like Chromium forks today.

    Unable to do much, if anything, to the actual engine itself. So if/when FF has their very own Manifest v3 moment, all those forks will unlikely be able to do much about it just like the Chromium forks.

    • Nednarb44@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Let’s keep our fingers crossed that ladybird doesn’t die before it’s released. I really want a properly FOSS browser

      • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
        1·
        8 days ago

        Don’t we have some already? Knoqueror comes to mind…

        Edit:

        According to chatgpt…:

        Here are some FOSS web browsers that are not directly based on any other existing browser or engine (though they may share components or libraries):

        1. Konqueror – While it uses the KHTML engine, it was originally developed independently as part of the KDE project and is not based on any other browser.

        2. Dillo – A very lightweight browser focused on simplicity and speed. It uses its own layout engine called Dillo Widget Set (DWSET), not based on any other browser engine.

        3. Netsurf – A lightweight browser that uses its own rendering engine, NetSurf, rather than being based on another browser.

        These browsers have independent origins and are not forks of other browsers. They either developed their own rendering engines or were built from the ground up. However, it’s worth noting that even independent browsers often rely on shared libraries or standards to some degree.