Which Browser(s) are you running with CachyOS
- Brave
- Chrome
- Chromium
- Edge
- Firefox
- Floorp
- Helium
- Ladybird
- LibreWolf
- Mullvad
- Opera
- OperaGX
- Tor
- Ungoogled-Chromium
- Vivaldi
- Zen
- Other
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If other please state which one and why? Thanks!
Primarily using Chromium out of inertia and how it plays nicely with the Google ecosystem. I don’t like how it doesn’t use the KDE Plasma design elements by default, and I generally prefer a minimally-featured web browser, so I’m also trying out Falkon.
Any reasons why one wouldn’t use OperaGX that just got released? I don’t think it works on CachyOS yet, if it does its above my level to get working.
firefox & zen
idk why, zen feels nice to use and is clean (obv similar to firefox but i prefer it over firefox when im doing serious work)
I installed Zen based on your comment. It just showed a black screen at launch and I was like “wow this really is zen”. 
Updating to the latest version fixed the problem. Slick browser, thanks for the tip.
I’ve been using Firefox for the last 20 years. I’ve tried many other browsers, but muscle memory and layout means I just never really click with any others.
I do use Chromium, but it’s purely for accessing the config launcher for my Keychron mouse and VIA for my Iris keyboard.
I probably would use Zen but the last time I used it, the scrollbar was just slightly offset from the edge of the window, making navigation annoying. Same problem as Steam.
I won’t use any Chromium/Blink based browsers for Google avoiding reasons, and honestly I feel the same about Firefox.
Firefox’s forks are still great though. Librewolf on desktops and Ironfox on mobile. Zen is a nice browser too, but Librewolf just ticks more of my boxes.
Yeah I hear you. I am looking at LibreWolf… I don’t remember why the reasons people were not in favor of Firefox lately, Mozilla was doing something that made some people unhappy?
can’t speak for anyone else but all the constant cloud feature pushing in Firefox endlessly updating on startup to interupt my homepage with another cloud feature advert/request/AI thing I will in all likelihood barely ever use if at all did it for me.
Ended up using Librewolf even on the old Windows.
Yeah, commitment to AI capability or some such in the browser. Which is, admittedly, something I’m against but my actual reluctance to use it goes back a little further.
Mozilla owes its continued existence to Google’s funding of them to be a “competitor” to Chrome for antitrust reasons. So there’s a couple motivations there to seek some obfuscation to it.
The obvious one being that, more often than not, money is what drives decision making. It’s hard to imagine that Google played no part in Firefox jumping on the AI slop bandwagon.
The other would be complacency. Mozilla’s executives don’t actually have a financial incentive to be a competitive browser anymore. They just need to stay good enough to make sure Google still has a reason to sign their paychecks.
Fortunately, Gecko is open source and I feel like the pack of Firefox forks has never been stronger than it is today.
Falkon. Trying it out. I’m brand new to Linux and CachyOS is the first distributon I’ve installed. If/when the Orion browser comes to Linux, I’ll use that.
Cromite! A chromium fork with patches from ungoogled-chromium and bromite, among others.
Brave with all the Web3 crap disabled. I want to use Firefox but Mozilla has repeatedly proven it’s priorities are anything and everything but making Firefox’s core browsing experience better. They’d rather add layers of telemetry, AI features, confusing and unnecessary rewrites to their TOS and EULA…
Just make the browser faster.
But Ladybird might be where I go when it’s release ready.
TOR, Librewolf and Waterfox for privacy reasons.
Vivaldi is my primary browser, but I also use Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Falkon.
I forgot about Vivaldi. How does it compare to Tor, Librewolf for speed and privacy
Firefox, been with it since it was called Phoenix.
On Windows i use OperaGX, but the time i spent on Windows is getting less and less. On CachyOS which is becoming my new main OS atm, i use mainly Firefox but i like to try different browsers every now and then, the answers from this post made me curious about zen i’ll probably give that one a try.
And on older Computers i recently found palemoon which, combined with something lightweight like Bodhi Linux or MX Linux Fluxbox, seems to work great even on old Laptops with only 2GB of Ram and a dualcore 2ghz cpu. Maybe i’ll try to rice it up a bit on my main computer when i’m bored, it says it is very customizable, but so far i only used the plain out of the box version on older notebooks. It is not the prettiest out of the box, but at least it works on very limited ressources, where other modern browsers struggle alot.
Since the end of the Cachy Browser, Firedragon has been my main browser.