Which internet browser?

[DaveRattlehead]

Now that I've read the options, aren't most of the browsers Chromium based, except for Firefox?

[Master]

IE wasn't, though it's also dead. But yeah, Firefox and Safari I think are the active exceptions in that list I think.

[Steo]

Firefox seems to be the one I always go to, since even on Linux it was always simple to install or came with some distros.

[PluMGMK]

IE wasn't, though it's also dead. But yeah, Firefox and Safari I think are the active exceptions in that list I think.

Safari is more closely related to Chromium than Firefox (since Safari uses WebKit while Chromium uses Blink). Firefox's Gecko is really the only competitor still out there

[The Jonster]

Out of curiosity, doesn’t opera also work with Linux?

[Master]

IE wasn't, though it's also dead. But yeah, Firefox and Safari I think are the active exceptions in that list I think.

Safari is more closely related to Chromium than Firefox (since Safari uses WebKit while Chromium uses Blink). Firefox's Gecko is really the only competitor still out there

Ahh ok, I was under the impression Safari was more removed than that, I'll have to read further on that then.

[DaveRattlehead]

Firefox was my first thought once I experienced that problem on YouTube, as isn't chromium based. However, I still experienced that YouTube problem using that browser. It's... Weird

And yup, I think Opera works with Linux too.

[dr_st]

There was a period of time where IE was quite OK, but this was after they already lost all the client base to Firefox, and later to Chrome. Microsoft made it good, but it was too late.

[DaveRattlehead]

Sometimes I believe that Edge is simply IE renamed. The fame was so bad that they simply couldn't revert it

[Reese Riverson]

Yeah but Edge is Chromium based, so I guess that's their way to ensure there's a clear difference?

[PluMGMK]

Edge was originally an evolution of IE, and was a pretty good one, but then they decided to stop investing in it and turn it into Yet Another Chromium Clone instead

[Master]

Oh yeah, I completely forgot. There was a time when there were two Edges wasn't there?

[Reese Riverson]

Oh yeah, that's right. Though, it's kind of a shame as that means Google's Chromium is becoming too dominant.

[Giant Chicken]

I just use Safari, it works well enough for me, and thats all I really need from a browser.

[PluMGMK]

Oh yeah, I completely forgot. There was a time when there were two Edges wasn't there?

Yeah, the old one had a blue E as its logo, which was like the IE one but without the yellow streak. Whereas the new one is a bit more abstract.

Oh yeah, that's right. Though, it's kind of a shame as that means Google's Chromium is becoming too dominant.

QFT. Even though I never really used Edge myself, I was very sad when I heard the news that it was becoming a Chlonium (see what I did there? )

[Reese Riverson]

Plus let's not forget the fact Google is killing off uBlock Origin on Chrome... This is why we need more competition in the browser space overall.

[DaveRattlehead]

I gotta say it isn't bad at all! I expected something similar to Internet Explorer and it's working much better than Chrome and Mozilla, which were the ones that I used. Not sure if it's because of Windows 11, but as long as it works fine for me I'll keep using it. Myself a couple of years ago would never say this

[Master]

I have heard that Google recently got called out officially for being a monopoly and was being looked into for being split up, doubt anything will come from that, but I wonder if that'll have any effect on the purvasiveness of Chromium?

[Rycer]

Edge was originally an evolution of IE, and was a pretty good one, but then they decided to stop investing in it and turn it into Yet Another Chromium Clone instead

Old Edge was definitely the most smooth-feeling browser thanks to its tight integration with Windows and async scrolling. Too bad Google, as usual, sabotaged it (as well as Firefox) that, ultimately, it was just easier to make a Chromium fork.

[Reese Riverson]

I have heard that Google recently got called out officially for being a monopoly and was being looked into for being split up, doubt anything will come from that, but I wonder if that'll have any effect on the purvasiveness of Chromium?

Yeah, they did get called out for it, and I heard this could negatively impact FireFox, since apparently Google pays them a lot of money to keep Google as the default search engine....