The Firefox ToC discussion pushed me down the browser engine rabbit hole (again). Have you had a chance to daily drive some really good but obscure web engine that is not Gecko (Firefox), WebKit (Apple) and Blink (Chromium)? How viable is it for a complete switch - this includes banking, chatting, logging into websites, etc.

Edit: Added link to the Firefox discussion to give better context to my question.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    0·
    4 months ago

    I don’t think there are any viable engines other than the three you mention. Other browsers than the three you mention are viable, I am typing this in LibreWolf, but they are all based on one of these three engines.

    I recently tried Ladybird and it crashes e.g. when I try to access my Lemmy instance. Definitely not viable yet in 2025, but this doesn’t mean it must remain so.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
    0·
    4 months ago

    seamonkey but it’s pretty hard to use without much love nowadays with so many incompatible websites. It’s a perfect mail client tho.

    Just get Firefox ESR with arkenfox, that should be enough.

  • No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    I’ve been using IronFox on mobile since Mull went away, but I’m ready to hear why that’s a bad option from anyone who knows better.

    So far its worked very similarly to Mull, in that I’ve had no issues with it so far. I don’t do banking or financial shit on my phone though, so I can’t comment on how well it works for that functionality.

    • Rando@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      They are porting to Linux was just announced not long ago… however dont know how long that will take. I am just gonna keep using FF until I can try Orion.

  • Beto@lemmy.studio
    0·
    4 months ago

    I use qutebrowser, it’s a keyboard driven browser that uses QtWebEngine (based on Chromium).

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Cromite. it is a very good and private, easy to use browser, but can be heavy on resources https://github.com/uazo/cromite. It uses Chromium engine. There are browsers like Ladybug and there is also an another project that use their own web engine, but anything that doesn’t use the engines you mentoioned, is impossible to daily drive, most of them doesn’t evem support javascript, or any script execution, which means you can only browse the most basic blogs, and forget about shopping, social media, and even forums

  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
    0·
    4 months ago

    I decided on LibreWolf for work, Mullvad for sensitive search such as places near me, Firefox for random stuff and Tor for piracy sites. I’m currently looking to replace Firefox as well