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00:00 Intro
00:26 Sponsor - Linode
01:38 Why U No Love Firefox?
03:42 What I want in a web browser
05:03 Firefox Forks
06:35 Epiphany - GNOME Web
07:58 Google Chrome
08:47 Chromium
10:02 Brave
11:21 Vivaldi
12:46 Opera
13:26 Microsoft Edge
14:22 The FINAL CHOICE + full benchmarks

Let's start with why I want to switch from Firefox to something else.

First, Firefox is adding ads in the browser.

Firefox has telemetry enabled out of the box.

Firefox pushes other services I have no use for, like Pocket.

Firefox doesn't integrate all that well on Linux, and doesn't really look like a native app, unless you use custom userchrome.css, which might be disabled in the future. I like the Proton redesign, but it still doesn't really look like a native application.

Firefox's mobile app isn't great on Android. On iOS, it's just a Safari wrapper, but the interface isn't great either, IMO.

Now, what am I looking for in a browser, apart from a nice daily companion to share my adventures on the wonderful place that is the internet?

I want something that looks at home on my desktop as much as possible, something that looks like it's using GTK or Qt.

I don't need thousands of features and extensions: an ad block, syncing with an account to keep my passwords in sync between devices, or compatibility with a password manager, and that's it.

I need a mobile client that has reasonable performance and a usable interface.

I need decent performance so stuff loads relatively fast and doesn't stutter too much. Anything that performs in the same class as Firefox will work for me.
Ram usage is irrelevant, as I only use computers with 16Gb of RAM or more, so my browsing never really poses a threat to that.

I want a browser that's private out of the box, without opt-out telemetry, ads in the browser, or data collection.

I'd like to avoid chromium based browsers if possible, because Chromium is controlled by Google, however open source it is, and that monopoly kinda scares me. In the end, if it's not possible, I'll live with it. Grumpily, but I'll live with it.

That's about it! We might have to compromise on some of these points, so we'll be attributing a score to each browser. Let's look at what's available.


Firefox benchmarks:
Version 93
123 runs per minute - Speedometer
821.88 motionmark
894.37 basemark

WaterFox Benchmarks:
Version G4.0.1
109 runs / minute - Speedometer
757.65 motionmark
763.78 basemark

Epiphany Benchmarks:
Version 40.3
121 runs / minute - speedometer
324.60 motionmark
721.31 basemark

Google Chrome Benchmarks:
Version 95.0.4638
165 runs per minute - speedometer
Couldn't complete motionmark
1566.3 basemark

Chromium
Version 94.0.4606.81
142.9 runs per minute - Speedometer
Couldn't complete motionmark
1487.03 basemark

Brave Benchmarks
version 1.30.87
127 runs/min speedometer
718.51 motionmark
1168.89 basemark

Vivaldi Benchmarks
Version 4.3.2439.63
Speedometer: 124 runs per minute
Can't complete motionmark
1288.73 basemark

Opera Benchmarks
Version 80.0.4170.16
Speedometer 135.2 runs/minute
Motionmark couldn't complete
1240.1 basemark

Microsoft Edge
Version 95.0.1020.40
Speedometer 141 runs per minute
Motionmark can't complete
1354.3 basemark

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