Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome?

Posted by bloomca on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am curious, what people usually use. Is Chromium safe and bug-free enough to use it? Is anything worth outside Firefox/Safari?

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by dexterw10 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:05PM (#18507791)

Refrain from using chinese browsers. They tend to send private user data to chinese companies. Best alternative is Firefox. Chromium is a bit buggy & catches many ads & malware.

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by thepapanoob on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:32AM (#18508474)

> Chromium is a bit buggy & catches many ads & malware

chromium literally is the foundation of chrome... wich makes your statement rather wild

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by dexterw10 on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:15AM (#18515315)

I installed Chromium...& it kept on crashing & installed some shitty adware on my device.

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by dexterw10 on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:16AM (#18515321)

It's the foundation but Chrome is much more improved & stable. In my opinion.

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by chmielewski on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:04AM (#18507971)

Chrome/Chromium uses a lot of RAM but most computers these days have RAM in abundance. You can try Opera or Firefox but I would stick to the main big browsers if you aren’t stressing on RAM usage.

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by Bizarro on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:59PM (#18507775)

I'm using Brave and happy with it except for no sync as of right now.

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by Rjevski on Friday November 23, 2018 @01:05AM (#18514673)

Safari is pretty good, and while it's not open-source, it's from a company that so far has proven to be respectful of privacy.

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by sidcool on Thursday November 22, 2018 @12:45AM (#18508116)

Brave browser works pretty well on Android phones

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Re:Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome? by Bizarro on Thursday November 22, 2018 @08:40AM (#18509913)

Yep, had to switch to Brave on my Android phone too because Firefox was killing my battery.

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