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I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The title is err, not correct because the top 2 alternatives Opera and Arc are based on Chromium engine. I have seen tons of people swear by Arc, but I am seriously asking (since as a Linux user I can't use it), how much good can a browser be in this day and age if ultimately it's ad blocking breaks and it will since Manifest v2 will go soon(unless Arc folks have a solution for it)

The rest alternatives are Firefox, Zen (FF fork but honestly Atleast this was something new I learned from this article) and Tor (which is weird since it is not meant for normal web browsing and using it will not only be slow but put additional strain on the nodes, correct me if I am wrong).

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Zen browser is really nice imo. The developers update it very frequently.

One drawback is that it lacks widevine support, which means that things like netflix won’t work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I will give Zen browser a try. As for Netflix, I only used it for a one month since it's quite expensive in my country and it crawled like anything on Firefox for Linux. I was getting consistent 720p video but not sure about full HD. Eventually I canceled it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

IIRC major streaming services like Netflix and Prime do not offer 1080p or 4k streams to Linux browsers, mainly for technical reasons. You have to use some tricks (special extensions or add-ons?) to get anything above 720p.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"technical reasons"

Wasn't this just about DRM?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

IIRC it was something to do with the difficulty of getting the browser to use hardware acceleration/GPU in the countless variations of Linux, to the point where they don't even bother trying because of the infinitesimally small market share of each distro.

But I'm not 100% sure of that.

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