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[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What alternatives exist that aren't so locked down 90% of sites don't load?

Is it only ff forks and chromium forks? All dependant on two terrible companies?

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

LibreWolf or WaterFox

[–] iterable@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you stay with Firefox forks use LibreWolf, if you stay with Chrome forks go Vivaldi do not use Brave, Sucks that Safari folded so many years ago for at least Windows it was a way to use Konqueror.

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What do folks think about Helium as a Chromium option?

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Either servo (funded by donations and Linux foundation Europe), or ladybird (funded by donations and some tech company sponsorships).

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 1 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

Wasn't servo the engine that was originally started by Mozilla to replace gecko but then dropped?

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

Yes. It was revived recently (two years ago??) by Linux foundation Europe because there is some renewed interest in!it.

[–] Wrdlbrmpfd@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

At least there is a project that tries to be the 3rd option, but no idea how useful this will be: https://ladybird.org/

Opera with Presto was already not 100% compatible with websites back then and that was the last alternative Option I remember (and not open source).

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right. Nowadays we only have ff and chromium forks, some really tiny browsers that only render HTML/XHTML 4, and two huge unoptimized & unfinished pieces of software that render ok for some sites and really really wrong on others.