ungoogled-chromium VS Firefox-UI-Fix

Chromium is Chrome with "less" (but, still substantial) Google. ungoogled-chromium[1] is Chromium with no Google.

[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

What's the best next choice if I don't want to move away from a Chrome-like experience?

(Old habits die hard)

There's https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium - is it a sound choice nowadays?

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo...

I think you want:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Without signing in to a Google Account, Chromium does pretty well in terms of security and privacy. However, Chromium still has some dependency on Google web services and binaries. In addition, Google designed Chromium to be easy and intuitive for users, which means they compromise on transparency and control of internal operations.

ungoogled-chromium addresses these issues in the following ways:

* - Remove all remaining background requests to any web services while building and running the browser*

* - Remove all code specific to Google web services*

* - Remove all uses of pre-made binaries from the source code, and replace them with user-provided alternatives when possible.*

* - Disable features that inhibit control and transparency, and add or modify features that promote them (these changes will almost always require manual activation or enabling).*

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/

For those that like Chromium but want to remove any integration with Google, there's Ungoogled Chromium

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

If you're entirely partial to Chromium browsers, use Ungoogled Chrome https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

what about https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

On Firefox it apparently disappeared in 2011

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%...

As a representative example, see the definition and compilation of the tab bar layout in my Firefox theme. Despite only considering the OS and user options, a file of about 360 lines produces a compilation result reaching approximately 1400 lines.

Yes! FF PMs and designers seem to HATE user customization, add-ons and power user capabilities. While FF is still the best browser for me (barely), it's only achieved this by all the alternatives enshittifying and dumb-ifying their browsers even faster than FF. As it is I have to spend significant effort under the hood customizing UserChrome scripts just to maintain minimal usability. (...and thank the heavens for https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix, a regularly maintained, well-curated, all-in-one collection of essential Firefox fixes.)

I use Lepton and i'm perfectly happy with the improved usability and readability. Also, easy to install : https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

I use Firefox with the excellent https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix I discovered on HN.

I wish that Mozilla didn't bungle the UI for no reason, but here we are.

So I applied an updated version of Firefox-UI-fix for Firefox 120, and now my accent on selected tabs is gone.