Me too, I just downloaded Firefox.
Firefox isn’t chromium
Edge Linux was weirdly performant when I tested it.
Not only did it benchmark better than plain Chromium (or Bromite or Thorium back then), but it seemed to behave better with Wayland. It was, indeed, be best Chromium Linux browser.
Shrug.
What other chromium browsers have you tried on Linux?
I mean:
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Chromium, binary release
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Chromium, CachyOS AVX2 build
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Thorium
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Cromite
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Edge is malware. Even if you use their settings to make it not broadcast everything you do to MS servers and block Copilot, etc., there’s nothing stopping it from deciding tomorrow to just randomly change those settings back without permission or notification, as Windows often does.
Oh and in order to edit the group policies the author mentions, you need to be using it in Windows, which is a whole other problem.
Isn’t the Chromium project still open source? I guess forking things and building from there doesn’t happen anymore?
Wow!
I was hoping that one day I could install edge on my arch distro and have the bestest ever, private and secure browser in the whole world.
But then I woke up from my dream. I told my psychoanalyst about my dream, and she said I was suffering from delusions and my dream was a narcissistic fantasy. Oh well.
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I use edge-frfox so I can have the edge experience without all the drama, surveillance, tracking.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/edge-frfox
https://github.com/bmFtZQ/edge-frfox
A Firefox userChrome.css theme that aims to recreate the look and feel of Microsoft Edge.
OH goodie.
ngl that looks pretty good. Does it support vertical tabs?
Why not just use Chromium?
Why not just use Ungoogled Chromium?
Chromium builds don’t have built-in automatic updates, and they’re missing DRM and some other proprietary components that are important. I’ve seen some community-maintained builds with varying update methods, but they don’t seem as well-supported as relying on Google/Microsoft/Vivaldi/whatever.
Sure, but it’s not hard to install widevine in Chromium and it’ll be auto updated through whatever package manager you use to install it.
Or you know, use a privacy aware browser on Linux.
I used desktop Linux as my daily driver for years, I am aware it exists.
