I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser
I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser
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I hacked Microsoft Edge to make my ideal Chromium web browser
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Edge is malware. Even if you use their settings to make it not broadcast everything you do to MS servers and block Copilot, etc., there's nothing stopping it from deciding tomorrow to just randomly change those settings back without permission or notification, as Windows often does.
Oh and in order to edit the group policies the author mentions, you need to be using it in Windows, which is a whole other problem.
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Does 11 evwn come with the GPE standard, or do you need a "pro" or "enterprise" level key, like you did for Windows 10? Because that would be another issue if you can't even access the GPE on a standard free version of Win11.
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GPE is only Pro and higher. No luck on home.
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Me too, I just downloaded Firefox.
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Firefox isn't chromium
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Yes you are correct, what's your point?
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Isn’t the Chromium project still open source? I guess forking things and building from there doesn’t happen anymore?
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Edge Linux was weirdly performant when I tested it.
Not only did it benchmark better than plain Chromium (or Bromite or Thorium back then), but it seemed to behave better with Wayland. It was, indeed, be best Chromium Linux browser.
Shrug.
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What other chromium browsers have you tried on Linux?
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I mean:
- Chromium, binary release
- Chromium, CachyOS AVX2 build
- Thorium
- Cromite
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Why not just use Chromium?
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Why not just use Ungoogled Chromium?
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Chromium builds don't have built-in automatic updates, and they're missing DRM and some other proprietary components that are important. I've seen some community-maintained builds with varying update methods, but they don't seem as well-supported as relying on Google/Microsoft/Vivaldi/whatever.
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Sure, but it’s not hard to install widevine in Chromium and it’ll be auto updated through whatever package manager you use to install it.
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ngl that looks pretty good. Does it support vertical tabs?
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Or you know, use a privacy aware browser on Linux.
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I used desktop Linux as my daily driver for years, I am aware it exists.
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Seems like a lot of work when you can just use librewolf
LibreWolf doesn't help me with websites that refuse to work properly on Firefox's engine. I mentioned in the article that Firefox is already my daily web browser, but I've been looking for a good backup Chromium browser for that and other reasons.
Some say brave, but all that crypto crap and a few scandals has me saying no.
Vivaldi, which started by the original Opera Deva after the browser was bought by a Chinese corp is pretty OK. Lots of the google stuff removed. Very customizable. Still works with ublock.
Other than that, on android there's chromite - no google blobs. Chromium on Linux - but it still has the google blobs.
Do you have a list of broken web sites? I have never seen any proof so far.
How does that compare to WaterFox or similar? I'm guessing it's not running a dated framework like PaleMoon?
It’s very actively maintained. It’s just a hardened version of Firefox, you can get similar results using a privacy-focused user.js profile with Firefox. What’s nice about is is that once Firefox introduces a new update with more breaches of privacy, they adjust the settings on their side, so it’s just more convenient. And you can configure some things via the GUI instead of some JavaScript files