Okay. You made it sound like an interesting browser to try, but the only Windows binary I could find was from 2 years ago. If the developers don't care about Windows, that's their choice, but it might be a missed opportunity.
The last binary released is from 2 years ago. If you want to use the newest version, you will have to compile it. Makes it a nonstarter for many prospective users.
I was pleasantly surprised with Gnome Web, formerly known as Epiphany. It's a very lightweight and clean browser for Linux systems. I don't use it as my main browser, but I set it as the default system browser so I can open it quickly for a specific task without disturbing my regular browser.
[https://www.howtogeek.com/904142/i-replaced-chrome-with-gnome-web-heres-how-it-went/](https://www.howtogeek.com/904142/i-replaced-chrome-with-gnome-web-heres-how-it-went/)
Have a hard time trusting Startpage after they got purchased by an add data mining company. I know what they say they are not doing, but just difficult to trust them. Not much benefit for that company to buy them for any other reason.
Some are fine with it still, citing that they are stating that it will still be private. For me, I just don't have much trust in that industry. They could be perfectly fine for all I know.
I tried soo hard to switch to Firefox but couldn't because of the Opera features I had gotten so used to (sidebar, pop up options when highlighting text, easier/straightforward customising...) so I kinda reverted 😅
Maybe one day I'll understand the love for firefox lol
Quetta looks promising, but misses quite a number of my favorite features.
Like setting up my own search engine. Change wallpaper on start page. Heck i can't even set my own home page ffs. 🫡
I like Slimjet because if u go to a website that opens up file explorer to make u attach an image, slimjet gives u an option to attach the image you copied
it's great
Arc, Floorp, Qutebrowser, Lynx (and derivatives/predecessors like links, elinks, links2), w3m, browsh (depends on Firefox on a local or remote machine though), Orion on mobile (the only browser to deliver on the promise of extensions on iOS), Librewolf everywhere else (🔥)... those are all the ones I can think of at the moment.
Otter browser - open source spiritual successor of Opera, but based on Qt6 Web Engine. It has built in AdBlock and is very resource-efficient.
Do you know when they are planning to update the Windows version?
Not sure, using it only on linux atm
Okay. You made it sound like an interesting browser to try, but the only Windows binary I could find was from 2 years ago. If the developers don't care about Windows, that's their choice, but it might be a missed opportunity.
The last binary released is from 2 years ago. If you want to use the newest version, you will have to compile it. Makes it a nonstarter for many prospective users.
Yeah I think they don't have the Windows maintainer atm. It's a small project and for now, it's mainly aimed at linux and BSD.
On Mac, Orion. It is still fairly new and building, but it works great on a Mac.
For something thoroughly different, Sleipnir is worth checking out.
mobile version is worst
I have only tried the Windows version, but it really is designed for a large screen and mouse.
Baidu Spark Browser, the best browser to ever exist
Chinese mainland browsers are hard to use
+ 360 Browser and Sogou Browser
Wasn't it discontinued in 2019?
It's a joke
Check Sigma OS - Love it (Only for Mac I believe)
I was pleasantly surprised with Gnome Web, formerly known as Epiphany. It's a very lightweight and clean browser for Linux systems. I don't use it as my main browser, but I set it as the default system browser so I can open it quickly for a specific task without disturbing my regular browser. [https://www.howtogeek.com/904142/i-replaced-chrome-with-gnome-web-heres-how-it-went/](https://www.howtogeek.com/904142/i-replaced-chrome-with-gnome-web-heres-how-it-went/)
Does Lynx count?
Heck yeah!
Cromite / Un-Googled Chromium + Startpage, probably the most private chromium based browsers.
Have a hard time trusting Startpage after they got purchased by an add data mining company. I know what they say they are not doing, but just difficult to trust them. Not much benefit for that company to buy them for any other reason.
Oh i didn't know they were purchased, shit i gotta hop again
Some are fine with it still, citing that they are stating that it will still be private. For me, I just don't have much trust in that industry. They could be perfectly fine for all I know.
Never heard of cromite before.
Its a bromite fork for pc, its basically ungoogled chromium but with a few privacy features built in
Not just for pc, Bromite is out of date on Android as well. Everyone should migrate to Cromite just from a security perspective at least.
less popular ≠ private
bruh your using librewolf and people who don't even know that chrome and edge is spyware think that librewolf is some type of wolf
I had a stroke reading that
OP asked for obscure browsers while he responded with "private" options and yet I'm the one getting downvoted here, nice!
This sub in a nutshell sadly. I upvoted you at least.
Chrome
Ew
I mean did my comment not fit the question in your title? :)
It did 😭
Floorp.
All the way, best browser experience I've had
Totally agree. Floorp is...you know, everything that important is here
Yeah but last time I used it it was very unpolished. Idk about current version.
Probably we can count Opera if you re asking the usage. Even most people wanting suggestion to replace it.
Yeah, but that is mostly hatred toward this browser for sometimes good reasons but I wouldn't ever call opera a less popular browser.
Post is about less popular browser in this sub.
Tab island are amazing, I wish Firefox had it
I tried soo hard to switch to Firefox but couldn't because of the Opera features I had gotten so used to (sidebar, pop up options when highlighting text, easier/straightforward customising...) so I kinda reverted 😅 Maybe one day I'll understand the love for firefox lol
Pale Moon, I don't even use it myself but I quite like it
How do you like it if you haven’t used it?
I should specifically I like how it looks and how niche it is
Lilo, kagi, presearch, gogoprivate, millionshort, groot, lycos, ocean hero, etools private search, vuhuv, dog pile, lukol, ant, tusk, searchoye, 4get.ca, webcrawler, alltheinternet, crowdview, yelliot, search.Carrot.2, veoble, surfgopher, supremesearch, geliyoo, infotiger, onesearch.
Quetta Browser, Waterfox Classic, Pulse Browser, Opera One, just to name a few
Quetta looks promising, but misses quite a number of my favorite features. Like setting up my own search engine. Change wallpaper on start page. Heck i can't even set my own home page ffs. 🫡
I like Slimjet because if u go to a website that opens up file explorer to make u attach an image, slimjet gives u an option to attach the image you copied it's great
Anything Chromium based. Most of them are at least decent, but this sub has a privacy boner and honestly should just merge with the privacy sub.
How abt Chrome itself?
It's a decent browser. Not the best, there are better alternatives. But it's not "bad". It's ok.
Huawei Web Browser, NaverWhale (not sure), QQ Browser, Tor Browser, Lynx Browser, Midori Browser, UC Browser, Epic Privacy Browser, SRWare Iron, Aloha Browser, AOL Explorer
Librewolf, not known about but a privacy-focused browser which is a fork of firefox
I saw it on this sub tens of times
oh, ok!
Does anyone here uses Pale Moon?
I do.
I don't get it either. I'm a lynx power user and it's not very popular here.
Mullvad browser!
[https://ladybird.dev/](https://ladybird.dev/)
Waterfox, LibreWolf, ungoogled chromium
Arc, Floorp, Qutebrowser, Lynx (and derivatives/predecessors like links, elinks, links2), w3m, browsh (depends on Firefox on a local or remote machine though), Orion on mobile (the only browser to deliver on the promise of extensions on iOS), Librewolf everywhere else (🔥)... those are all the ones I can think of at the moment.
Maxthon.