positron
ungoogled-chromium
positron | ungoogled-chromium | |
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17 | 405 | |
529 | 18,979 | |
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0.0 | 8.7 | |
almost 6 years ago | 7 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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positron
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Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
Mozilla used to work on it: https://github.com/mozilla/positron
Currently I'm guessing https://tauri.app/ would be the easiest way to get away from electron.
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One meme from my collection
They made an Electron-compatible replacement, Positron, discontinued.
- Firefox should have a webview
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What if Discord changed their Desktop app to use Firefox browsing engine instead of chromium?
Replacing Electron and rebuilding Discord from the ground-up would be quite the undertaking. What framework would you use? Firefox has tried to make an Electron-like framework in the past with Positron, but it has since been discontinued.
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Is there a way to build desktop apps using Firefox engine?
Mozilla Positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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How do you think Mozilla can better optimize Firefox (and Gecko)?
That way: * other browsers can base their engine on Firefox's * it's possible to make nodejs applications based on Gecko rather than Blink (i think it was called Positron) * other company can join and help them having an engine that is truely free and open source, where everybody can contribute and assure that the web standard is respected
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Chad Spotify
Yeah, totally. Mozilla started something that would do just that, but it looks like it's been abandoned for a while. https://github.com/mozilla/positron Not sure if anyone's made a fork that's being maintained.
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day 1 : so far so good
It’s been discontinued github/mozilla/positron
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Created a comparison table (Firefox vs. the big three): feedback?
Firefox has project seperated from it's browser, just the problem is it never took off and only stay as... a relic of the past https://github.com/mozilla/positron
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Chrome says nom-nom
They did, twice. But they both were really unused.
ungoogled-chromium
- console.log(DOOM)
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
Cromite[0] is the best on Android, it's a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium.
Cromite has a desktop build, but it's a bit more experimental than the mobile build, so you can use Ungoogled Chromium[1] instead. Ungoogled is also a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Check the beta flags to enable some more interesting features like getClientRect anti-fingerprinting measures (unfortunately breaks some React-based sites that go into infinite re-render loop).
Both of these browsers selectively include patches from Brave, but they are community-oriented builds so imo more trustworthy than Brave, which continues to package various shady anti-features and always will because it's backed by a for-profit company.
LibreWolf[2] is the nicest Firefox-based one for desktop, I think. It's pretty hardcore, though, I most only use it to visit mainstream social media sites.
I tried a bunch of the Firefox-based ones on mobile and none of them clicked for me. Cromite is just too slick on Android. Put the address bar at the bottom and off you go. Only downside is no online syncing of tabs and bookmarks, but meh. You can save all open tabs to bookmark bar in one hit then export your bookmarks, send the file through whatever E2EE channel you want to your other device and import then reopen them again.
[0] https://github.com/uazo/cromite
[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
[2] https://librewolf.net/
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Browsers Are Weird
For those that like Chromium but want to remove any integration with Google, there's Ungoogled Chromium
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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What is the safest and best browser to use???
If you're entirely partial to Chromium browsers, use Ungoogled Chrome https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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Mozilla CEO received $6,9m salary in 2022, a $2m increase from 2021, meanwhile Firefox has lost 30m of its userbase since 2020.
what about https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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any working adBlock for YouTube?
Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium (needs to update uBlock manually) in Incognito window with unchanged vanilla uBlock Origin with lists updated and no other plugins and without YouTube account. Works perfectly. Also FreeTube.
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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
Ungoogled Chromium is a Chromium-based browser with Google services stripped out.
- Project and source: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
- Binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Using these sort of downstream patch set browsers is rarely a good idea. If it has multiple full-time developers from a respected org dedicated to it, then it can be justifiable (Tor Browser, Brave), but take a look at the gaps in time for these two pages:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/rel...
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/ch...
There's often days you're going without security patches. If you want a browser without Google tracking, Firefox is a much better choice.
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Installing Chrome extension from raw source code
While these screenshots use Google Chrome, they will also work on all 'Chromium' based web browsers, like Brave, Vivaldi, ungoogled-chromium, etc. Window's Edge is also compatible, though some the button locations are changed.
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Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskinn
I would highly recommend the Ungoogled Chromium fork instead: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Entirely volunteer maintained, there is no for-profit entity behind it looking to do crypto referrals or ad swapping or anything like that.
What are some alternatives?
firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding 🐉 (mirrored from GitLab)
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
qbrt - CLI to a Gecko desktop app runtime
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
FirefoxPWA - A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox]
browser
youtube-music - YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
iridium-browser - Iridium Browser source code
policy-templates - Policy Templates for Firefox
thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.