My current browser is DuckDuckGo because I like to use it to protect my privacy on the Web.
I heard word about Vivaldi being a popular browser for Fediverse users but I never tried it.
I’m not sure which one is necessarily better.
I say Vivaldi, but how I set up Vivaldi fully mimicked what I could do in Zen, a Firefox fork.
Firefox and its derivatives are the only browsers that challenge Google’s monopoly on browser engines and prevent them from making unilateral changes to all web browsers based on them, including Vivaldi. DuckDuckGo is a good search engine though.
I used Libre Wolf to challenge Mozilla too… somewhat.
Duck gets results from bing. I honestly had to switch to Searx. Can’t stand not finding stuff anymore
Why do people always say they switched to SearXNG and then never post the instance they use? Not everyone wants to self host a damn search engine.
Because you can searx for the version you like most…
So? Maybe help others find an instance instead of making it sound like some special club that only privileged people can access because they know how to find the right instance.
? Dude what? You can search just like I can. Idk what your needs are.
SearX is aggregator that get results mostly from Google…
Still my go to but people should know this fact.
Welllll I mean technically webkit is totally separate from chromes blink fork for the last several years. I.e. browers like safari and gnome’s epiphany. That said, safari is mac/iOS only and epiphany sucks ass so…
Fair enough. GNOME Web is the only cross platform non Blink or Gecko browser, and like you say it has flaws compared to those two, such as lack of extension support.
And somehow breaking even more sites than safari; missing many modern features
Between these two options DuckDuckGo Browser is at least free and open source, while Vivaldi is closed source, which makes DuckDuckGo Browser the better choice.
Firefox and its forks are better than both. Firefox’s Gecko engine is independent of Google and Apple, while Vivaldi uses Google’s Blink engine and DuckDuckGo Browser uses either Blink or Apple’s WebKit engine depending on platform.
To echo @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com, you should give LibreWolf a look. It’s based on Firefox, but with the telemetry disabled and the default settings set in a way that best protects your privacy.
One adjustment I faced when switching to it was that, by default, LibreWolf deletes all cookies upon exiting, which was annoying for sites I want to stay logged into (e.g. my email). But you can either turn that off, or click on the lock icon in the address bar and tell LibreWolf to save cookies for that site, which is what I did- and WOW DO I LOVE IT! Bonus perk is that it breaks nag windows on sites that keep track of how many articles you’ve read.
