epiphany VS UrlChecker

Mozilla is just using Firefox's old reputation to market itself as an organisation for Internet freedom, while receiving donations from search engines. People see more advertisements in Firefox than in Chrome and still support Firefox. They forget there is Epiphany.

You can follow its development by yourself here. If you add Planet GNOME to your feed reader you're also extra likely to see such announcements.

Use Epiphany. It uses webkit and thus behaves pretty much the same as Safari for most browser specific bugs.

As far as I can tell, there is no free and easy way to do this unless you own an Apple device. Recently it came to my attention that tools such as Epiphany (Linux) and Playwright (Windows) exist, but even then it's just the rendering engine you're testing, and who knows what weird bugs you might run into.

You might want to take a look at Epiphany[1]. It's just Safari (Webkit, actually), but without the need for Apple devices.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany

They used to have a port of Safari for Windows. It was as popular as you'd expect. Having said that, WebKit - the engine underpinning Safari - is open source with BSD and LGPL 2.1 compatible licensing (https://webkit.org/project/). In addition, they make the engine available for use on Linux (https://webkit.org/downloads/). Gnome Epiphany is a browser based on WebKit (https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany). According to their manifesto, they support Simplicity, Standards Compliance and Software Freedom. Specifically, "Epiphany opposes the dominance of the web by proprietary software web browsers. Today's chief offender is Google Chrome, a browser that purports to be open source, yet actually includes several proprietary components."

Epiphany development relies heavily on WebKitGTK, some things are out of reach for developers who do a great job. One such problem is the scroll speed. This extension is a workaround for that, please if you can contribute, contribute upstream.

https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker set this as default browser

For Android, I've been using URLCheck[0] for opening any link system wide, to clean the URL and check for redirects and open in specific browser. Just have to set it as your default browser

[0]: https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

URLCheck (version 2.10): Allows you to analyze (or share) urls before opening them.

https://github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

URLCheck, an Android app to analyze urls before opening them. With clear urls module, pattern checker module, and a few more.

It got a few points (~30) when I posted the "it is now on f-droid" submission but that was it. I've been updating the app since too.

There is also URLCheck