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.

  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t know if Librewolf counts as obscure enough but Mozilla’s decisions on things as of late have been very questionable. It’s probably not enough to just use Librewolf but it’s a start…

  • sbird@lemmy.world
    1·
    12 hours ago

    I use floorp (firefox fork) because I like having the tabs at the bottom. Makes them closer to the taskbar and a bit easier to navigate.

  • unlogic@lemmy.zip
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Librewolf on desktop and ironfox on mobile. The prior for over a year and the latter a few months. Occasionally need to use something else on desktop that needs webgl or similar. I don’t want to change librewolf setting so I use something else. Usually a work related thing anyway

  • Imhotep@lemmy.world
    3·
    23 hours ago

    GNOME Web (Epiphany)

    I kind of daily drive it as I made webapps with it for some services I host (which Firefox still doesn’t offer natively)

    The UI is quite nice but it isn’t always the smoothest in terms of performances. Still, a very respectable effort

  • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
    2·
    24 hours 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

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    I’m going to stick with some form of Firefox fork, personally. Chromium forks are questionable, as if I recall right they include a binary blob provided by google, which could be hiding god knows what.

    Firefox is fully open source, so any code supporting this potential data harvesting can’t hide, and will be removed by most forks.

    • Delusion6903@discuss.onlineEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I used librewolf until there was some concern about them updating in a timely manner.

      Now I used Firefox with Phoenix to maybe get the best of both worlds and IronFox on mobile.

  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    2 days 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.