hperrin

@hperrin@lemmy.world

I’m Hunter Perrin. I’m a software engineer.

I wrote an email service: port87.com

I write free software: github.com/sciactive

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hperrin,

I like that a lot.

hperrin,

Thank you for asking this. I’m going under day after tomorrow for knee surgery, so I’m going to pick one of these to use. :)

hperrin,

Probably because you’re alone, and you don’t feel accomplished regarding your meal. If either of those changed, you’d probably feel better.

I use Brave to test whether my websites work on Chromium browsers, but their scummy actions lately make me want to find a new Chromium browser to test with. What's the best Chromium based browser?

I already use Firefox for browsing normally, but I have to test on a Chromium based browser too. One soft requirement is that it should be installable with Flatpak on Linux.

hperrin, (edited )

I haven’t tried Vivaldi. Is it available on Linux?

Edit: Looks like they do with both .deb and .rpm packages. They’re not on Flatpak, but the rpm would work for me on Fedora.

hperrin,

Yes. I’ve considered that, but does it still report back to Google? Even though that majority of what I visit will be “http://127.0.0.1:8080”, I’d still rather not be spied on by Google.

hperrin,

I though that was Linux only, but I just looked it up and it is also available on Mac.

It’s not available on Windows, but I’m ok with that.

I will add that to the list to try out.

hperrin,

Edge isn’t installed by default on any of the computers I use, and I’m not a huge fan of all the junk they put in it.

Also I just downloaded it on Mac and it’s a .pkg file, so that really sets off alarm bells.

hperrin,

I would assume not, but isn’t that a mobile only browser?

hperrin,

Now this looks promising! The list of improvements and patches looks really nice.

hperrin,

100% truth.

hperrin,

I didn’t know that! Awesome! I hope there’s a Linux version soon, then I’ll probably switch to it.

hperrin,

www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…/ar-AA1iIl9q

theverge.com/…/brave-browser-affiliate-links-cryp…

www.searchenginejournal.com/…/491854/

It’s like every year or so Brave does something new and shittier.

hperrin,

Their latest thing that pushed me to look for a new testing browser is installing a system wide VPN on your computer without your consent.

hperrin,

I don’t see a Mac build. Are they planning to support Mac?

hperrin,

I don’t like Google trackers.

hperrin, (edited )

Yes. www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/

But not nearly as many tracking mechanisms as Chrome, because it lacks API keys for some services. By default, it will still send the URL of every page you visit to Google, though. At least that’s my understanding, reading their privacy policy.

But it also doesn’t update itself, doesn’t seem to have a working Mac build (the one on their website doesn’t launch), and doesn’t sync (which I can live without, but end-to-end encrypted sync is nice).

hperrin,

The KDE team is awesome, and they already have Mac devs. So maybe if people show support for it, they’d do it. :)

hperrin,

Yeah, this is a contender. No Windows build and no sync are the downsides, but neither is a deal breaker, since I’m only testing with it, and I code on Linux and Mac.

hperrin,

I try as hard as I can to never boot into Windows. The only time I ever do is to build a Windows version of one of my desktop apps.

hperrin,

I mostly code on Linux, but I also code on Mac, since I have to test on Safari. I don’t really ever code on Windows. Windows exists on a separate disk in my computer just to boot into every 3 or 4 months when I release a new version of a desktop app and need to build for Windows.

So I want a browser that at least works on Linux and Mac. What I meant in my post was I wanted it installable through Flatpak rather than a snap or deb, since I use Fedora.

hperrin,

That’s vanilla Chromium.

Ungoogled Chromium is not officially released on Windows, only through a third party.

hperrin,

I don’t use Windows much, but Edge is available on Mac and Linux. I’m just not a fan of all the “features” they put in it. I’m looking for more of a clean browser experience, if you get what I mean.

hperrin,

This is awesome! Thank you.

Unfortunately, based just on this, Brave seems to be the best, but there’s additional stuff in Brave that makes it much less appealing.

hperrin,

programming.dev/post/3830313

“The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)”

If you’re a software dev, or just interested in how computers represent text, it’s a very good read.

hperrin,

If you build it, they will come.

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