Lethal virus and battling systemic racism. August 2020 update: Mozilla has now clearly ceased caring about technology, but is instead fully focusing on social issues - From combatting a Speed and shitty UI and you have a browser you're never going to want to use. Include removing configuration options, having anti-privacy default search engines, lying about being privacy-based, removingĪddon compatibility, disrespecting contributors, shoving you targeted advertisements, enforcing usage of certain other software, and many, many others (read the article!). There is a long history of anti-user decisions with this one - it's so big I've written a massive article about it and other Mozilla's sins. Let's analyze them one by one: Firefox based browsers Mozilla Firefox These consist of usability, privacy, customizability, philosophy, respect for the user, Slight exception in Pale Moon), we will have to use some other criteria to judge these browsers. Since they all support the same addons (with
So, for a day-to-day browser, you have only two options: Firefox based and Chrome based. One advantage of these niche browsers is that they don't spy on you, but what I've learned from trying probably all of them is that, in the end, addons areĮssential - especially uMatrix is irreplaceable. Qutebrowser is a keyboard controlled browser that recently added per-domain settings, but they are inferior to uMatrix. No addon support (so far, though it's planned). Otter Browser is a promising project with a very nice UI, but has Midori has everything you'd expectįrom a modern web browser and even includes in-built functionality to replace some of the common addons, but it's not enough. Surf is a graphical web browser that has image and Javascript support, but no tabs or an actual user interface. I could mention many other browsers here. Or no Javascript support, limited CSS support, no loading of non-HTML content such as videos (but can load externally), and no addons make these unsuitable for modern day browsing. Missing in "modern" web browsers (such as editing cookies, custom stylesheets or keybinding), but in the end, they can all be got back through addons. Actually, elinks supports features that are somehow The basic terminal browser - links, w3m, Lynx, elinks - can still be used today to display websites only in text. What is the point of a web browser? Originally, it was to be able to read HTML documents, but since then, the Web has changed massively, and modern browsers need
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