Firefox with its forks went sluggish recently and I want to try something new. The only Chrome based browser worth mentioning I know is Brave, but it is bloated as hell. I heard of Vanadium, but found no prebuilt binaries.
On Android, the only ones I would use is Fennec (F-Droid build of Firefox), or IronFox (privacy focused fork of Firefox), almost purely because they are the only ones that can use extensions (none of the Chromium ones can do that I think!)
Brave is awful, has weird crypto NFT shenanigans going on, I would not recommended. Vivaldi is closed-source and, honestly, isn’t very special (especially the Android version). The best Chromium offering is probably Cromite, which is a privacy-focused one that has an ad-blocker, but still, no extensions which kind of sucks.
I am moving to Piefed at scallisto@retrofed.com (https://retrofed.com/u/scallisto)
Is any Chrome based browser left that supports proper ad blocking, anyway?
Firefox might not be as good as it was, but at least it makes the internet usable with the right addons.
Brave. And without any addon. No, I don’t care about the CEO, the supposed bloat or all other bullshit without any technical reasoning. It’s a damn fine browser.
There is cromite, with a build-in adblocker.
Cromite also supports extensions if you activate the Developer Options. Been using uBlock Origin Lite and I Still Don’t Want Your Cookies on it, and it’s been my main browser.
I didn’t check if it was possible to add extensions on cromite, i use it only as a secondary browser. I prefer to use firefox based browser (ironfox on my phone). Thanks for the information.
Does ublock origin lite really add something to the build-in ad block ? I thought the manifest v3 killed the ad blocker extensions.
uBlock Origin Lite has been a nice supplement to the Cromite adblocker.
