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		drcongo on Nov 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Searx – Privacy-respecting metasearch engine Chrome destroys the battery on my laptop and is basically spyware these days, the Chrome-alikes are all dreadful - Vivaldi has the jankiest UI ever, Brave is unbearably sluggish, Edge runs processes that I didn't ask for like Microsoft Updater that bugs me constantly and spams the new tab screen with all sorts of low rent junk that I can't remove. Firefox is my developing browser and I do really like it, but Safari my actual browsing browser because it's by far the best browsing browser on Macs.

boogies on Nov 12, 2021 | [–]

If you leave macOS you can get much better frontends for WebKit, from the simple, rather Safari-like GNOME Web (AKA Epiphany) to the powerful Pentadactyl-like luakit.

xanaxagoras on Nov 12, 2021 | [–]

I've landed on Librewolf for personal, ungoogled chromium for work. It's great so far, been on this setup for a few months.

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