Brave/Opera for me, just remove the "junk" and its a great browser imo, I couldn't give 2 hoots if its from China, they know I'm an Mi5 spy, but still here........
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For what reason would you use Opera? Just use FireFox or Brave if you want Chromium browser. better than this closed source Chinese software.
Which website are those, I don't really have problem with Safari but I keep hearing it doesnt work on a lot of sites
Which website are those, I don't really have problem with Safari but I keep hearing it doesnt work on a lot of sites
The built in VPN is a good feature for work. And Brave puts on a good show but there is nothing to suggest they really care about privacy. On Opera you have DNS over HTTPS, easy TOR setup, built in ad blocker, built in cookies accepter or rejector, a built in VPN, and with one flick in the settings there is no analytics being sent off to Mixpanel. Brave is rather a unknown and seem to want to push their own ads into the browser. If I didn't want Chrome or Opera I would use Edge(In full knowledge that Edge collects data that could be personally identifiable).
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Qatar Airlines I think and a couple of European carriers.
Can't remember the specific concert venues, but there are various that I have used that don't play nice with Safari. It just woudn't render the seat selection graphic.
If you value your privacy use a paid VPN service with no-log policy, these built-in browser ones cannot be too sure as it has to pay the bills to offer it for free and reality is you are paying for it by being the product.
Safari for banking, Start Page and DDG for web search, etc.
I tried seat selection on Qatar airlines on my iPad with Safari browsers and no problems here. Some settings might be wrong on your device.
The main issue is inept and/or lazy developers coding sites specifically to Chromium instead of being able to work with all browsers (like they should). So some user types wind up having to keep a Chromium based browser in their proverbial back pocket for those cases.
Six here as well. But no Edge. Tor is my sixth.
Everybody here is talking about the same tired old browsers!
I'm still trying to figure out what niche is right for Tor.
What is the "junk" I should be removing/disabling in Brave? I am a tab-junkie and eventually my M1 slows down when some rando task takes over. When this happens, I do a force-quit of Brave and restart, and hit the Reload previous button. Seems most stuff doesn't open till I return to the window. I'd prefer not to live this way.
Any threads on how to optimize your browser?
Umm; no. A VPN is not for privacy, it is to get around geofences or in my case to test how a site works and that the AWS accelerator punts users to the correct zone. A paid VPN is just deliberately giving a third party company everything I do so they can log it.
When you install it first time it has alot of "bloaty" rubbish on there (wallpapers, tiles etc) which I turn off/remove. Install Adblocker and Disable youtube autoplay. I don't have more than 5 or 6 tabs open, not sure why people do. My M1 has 16GB ram so feels alot snappier since its gone to Version:75.0.3969.149 (arm64)
Its quick no doubt but I prefer opera for now as theres some extensions you can't get on there
ST4 , i just got the beta a few days ago. It will release the silicon version soon... very. *cough* it exists *cough*
It is AMAZINGLY fast. ST4 is what textmate 1 was to mac users, decades ago... a game changer.
It can be used for both geo-fences and privacy. VPN create a secure and encrypted connection and depending on the protocol some are better than others. Some company have a strict “no log” policy others and especially free options (other than ProtonVPN) that I am aware of log activity and make no promise. Be careful when using any free option provided. For testing purposes as you mentioned a free VPN will do the job. Depends what ones intent and purpose is.
I gave Opera a go; wow it’s really, really fast.
I’m using the workspace function built into the browser to manage the ridiculous amount of tabs I need access to for work. I’m kinda blown away at just how many simultaneous open tabs it’s able to run and not turn this 2019 MacBook Pro into a slow moving furnace.
I’ve been using the GX version as my gaming browser for about a year and been really pleased with it (I play Eve Online, needs lots of Google Sheets to play), Safari is still my personal browser of choice but I think Opera just bumped Edge for my work browser. Opera was able to do the same workload and use 1GB less RAM than Edge (Total usage was about 13GB compared to 14GB with Edge). I didn’t test it with Safari, I need to be able to have different pinned tabs on each window (across ~10 windows) and Safari just can’t do that.
I had a brief look at Vivaldi, I really like their history and tab customisations but it was lacking built in workspace functionality and I didn’t want to have to spend all weekend trying to find the least janky extension to fill that gap.
I’m using the workspace function built into the browser to manage the ridiculous amount of tabs I need access to for work. I’m kinda blown away at just how many simultaneous open tabs it’s able to run and not turn this 2019 MacBook Pro into a slow moving furnace.
I’ve been using the GX version as my gaming browser for about a year and been really pleased with it (I play Eve Online, needs lots of Google Sheets to play), Safari is still my personal browser of choice but I think Opera just bumped Edge for my work browser. Opera was able to do the same workload and use 1GB less RAM than Edge (Total usage was about 13GB compared to 14GB with Edge). I didn’t test it with Safari, I need to be able to have different pinned tabs on each window (across ~10 windows) and Safari just can’t do that.
I had a brief look at Vivaldi, I really like their history and tab customisations but it was lacking built in workspace functionality and I didn’t want to have to spend all weekend trying to find the least janky extension to fill that gap.
Not so, a VPN encrypts your data to and from your browser effectively making it impossible for your ISP (at least) to see/read your activity. Since US Congress made it legal for ISP's to sell on your browsing records to third party advertisers a VPN is an almost essential privacy tool, at least in the USA.
I play around with Opera occasionally just to use something different, but have been annoyed the past ~9 months or so by the fact that it opens in full screen quite often even though I rarely use it as such (and never close Opera while in full screen the few times I do). I have to delete com.operasoftware.Opera.savedState from ~Library and relaunch to get it to open as normal. Cannot figure out why this is happening.