 Hey everybody welcome back to the channel today. We're gonna look at the best firefox alternatives now a few days ago firefox pissed off the free and open source community by Basically saying they wanted to control what truth was on the internet and During a time I've been trying to find the What's next for me? I'm trying I've been doing some research on what would be the best browser that I could use that isn't firefox I've desperately tried to find one that is not attached to Google in any way I have not been successful There is just not a many good alternatives out there You either choose firefox or you choose something in this chromium base. Those are pretty much only options Um, but I found a few I found a few that are good enough options that you could use I haven't made my choice yet, and I'm not gonna actually show you the browsers that I've downloaded I'm gonna do another video on that that when I actually make my choice But I'm gonna show you some of the Alternatives today, so we're gonna start off with one that is so this is firefox that I'm using. Like I said, I haven't made the switch yet Mainly so first. Let me explain why I haven't switched yet I like theming my browser in weird ways So as you can see I have the bookmark bar along the side and I have the tab bar in one line along with the You are a ball. I mean it's really cool, right? You can't do that with many other browsers now one that you can do is LibreWolf now I do have LibreWolf installed so if I go here do this This is LibreWolf. It looks exactly the same. I have it kind of set up the way Kind of the way I have firefox it up. There's some things you can't do apparently you can't hide the the file menu Which is weird. I've also not been able to find a way to import bookmarks, so I'm not sure why you can't do that because there's no bookmarks like if you go to you go to firefox here and You have this menu here and you can go to your bookmarks and then your bookmarks like you View all bookmarks, right? You have a bookmarks manager If you go to this here, there's no button like that. First of all, you go to bookmarks here Wait a minute. Oh never mind seeing look I found it So maybe what maybe the reason why I hadn't switched to water fox yet was that or not water fox But Libre what the hell is it called LibreWolf? Sorry LibreWolf is because I couldn't be transferred over my bookmarks Now it wouldn't have been a big deal if I decided to reinstall Boku But I'm glad I found this so that's one option Whether or not I'll be able to actually go through and get it themed the way I liked it the same. I'm not sure yet That's just you know, we'll see But it's a fork of firefox. It's put it's not attached to the firefox thing For brazil in any way. It's just a fork It's very very privacy focused Whether or not you'll get find any errors on websites that it doesn't handle all that well I'm not sure yet. I had like said I ran into that roadblock with the bookmarks thing Which apparently was really easy to solve And just you know didn't go any farther But that's the only firefox one that I've tried now. There's another one called water fox I've mentioned water fox as accidentally here a few minutes ago a few you know a few moments ago I haven't been able to get it built to build on on Arch don't know why it's in the a you are but when you try to use ya to install it it fails You can also build it from source. I haven't been able to successfully do that. It just fails out Why that is I'm not sure I'm not sure if it's not still being developed I don't know. I'm not be able to show you that's the reason why it's not on this list but if maybe you can try and and You know see if you can have more success than I did now I haven't tried to have it but I haven't tried to build it on this Install Linux yet, so maybe I'll try it again. It did not build on arco All right, so the next one that has become very popular is brave now brave as a chromium based browser so Keep that in mind But it doesn't have any Google stuff in it at all which is good The only thing that it does from Google basically is that it's a chromium based browser It uses blink as the web engine, which is I believe a fork a web kit, but I'm not sure but still It sinks has sink thing, but it uses Blockchain technology to sync stuff. I'm not sure yet if you can actually go through and Sync tabs because it does have a mobile browser a mobile version So if I'm gonna try it if you can go through and sync tabs because you didn't used to be able to sync the tabs If you can do that now, I'm gonna try it does the weird thing where it tries to if you watch if you have advertisements on your page it gives you like BAT which is kind of like a Cryptocurrency thing I'm not into all that stuff You could give me some cryptocurrency. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it. Can I go to McDonald's with cryptocurrency? No and rant But brave is not as customizable for me as Firefox is because you can't change the like the location of things that I Really want. I may end up just having to leave that part of my interest behind That'd be sad, but you know whatever so the next one is Good old chromium itself There's not a lot to say about this everybody knows chromium It's the free version of Google Chrome and by framing this is the open source version of that Google Chrome isn't based on If you're interested in the most Compatibility on the web chromium is the one that you want to use Pretty much everything you want to use Netflix YouTube all that stuff will actually work in chromium where it might not work Sometimes in Firefox or one of these other ones Same thing with like a lot of banking websites will only work in Chrome, which will work in chromium. So It's very very much very much tied to Google So this is not going to be an option for me if I'm going to use a chromium based browser It's going to be brave Chromium is out there if you want something that's really really close to Google But you want an open source version of it chromium is what you got All right, the next one is the Vivaldi. So This is what Vivaldi looks like. I don't have it installed. I've tried it many times before For me, it's always been kind of slow. I haven't tried it since the hag came up with the Android version of the Browser, so I'm gonna give another try it is chromium based But like kind of like brave it has its own login system So you're giving your your login your information to a different company other than Google, which is good It doesn't use blockchain like brave because brave doesn't actually have counts, but At least it's not as attached to Google as say something like chromium It does have different Layouts and stuff which I find intriguing. It's very colorful. The design is very innovative compared to the other ones that are on this list My only problem with it is it's not open source. This is closed source It's based on chromium, which is open source, but the wrapper itself that wraps around chromium closed source That's not great It's one of only two on this list that are closed source completely The other one is opera. So the opera is the next one As you can tell opera kind of looks like Firefox in many ways. It also looks kind of like Vivaldi in many ways You know, I'm not sure if opera is closed source and I don't want to I don't want to say this Without knowing so I'm not sure either way. It doesn't it doesn't really matter. Nobody uses opera. I mean, there's nobody uses it I mean, nobody's ever used opera. It's like the I mean, it's it's a choice I'm not sure why you'd choose it I'm not sure I haven't used it in 10 years, but it's an option All right, the last one is going to be a little bit different so if you're a keyboard-driven person if you're used to using them or Emacs or something like that Cute browser may be your option It's entirely keyboard-based you use so I I believe if I go here, I can open up cute browser Yeah This is cute browser It's the first time I've ever opened it on this on this computer. That's why you're getting all this stuff here As you can tell it's very very very very minimal You wanted to open up something you could you just press open Calm and it takes us to YouTube very slow I mean, it's not it's not as slow as surf surf is another minimal web browser. I Have some issues with cute that I don't think that are that are I think I think that are gonna keep me from Switching over to it one. It's not great at ad blocking. I need an ad blocker I understand that personally as a youtuber. I'm trying to make money off from advertisements eventually So I'm a bloody hypocrite. I can't help it. I don't like it as especially on YouTube YouTube ads are horrible Yeah, all right, you want rant time just one more rant YouTube YouTube ads show them to me at the beginning Don't even miss gonna skip them I'm fine. I'll watch them at the beginning if I have to but if you interrupt the video I'm watching like 12 times to show me another advertisement. I'm leaving That's horrible. I mean that's just horrible user experience I understand it happens on TV, but you wanna on TV. I'm not watching a 10 minute video or a 5 minute video I'm watching a half an hour show or something and Maybe I'm DVRing or something I can fast forward to the I'm sorry Not the top of the good of the video Can't help it sometimes I just after ran it just it comes out. It takes hold of me. I can't I can't stop Sad face. Fuck you YouTube. Fuck you All right, so cute browser was the other option I Want to try cute browser, but there's the ad advertising thing is just thing And it also is just not as fast as the other ones. So We'll see so those are the those are the main options that I've found and the ones that I'm considering the most the only one on This list that I will not be choosing is chroma. I've ruled that out because it's too close to Google to Google I can't even say Google Google What a stupid name Chances are I'm gonna try Libre Wolf for a little while see if I can't get it to look like Firefox and act like Firefox But chances are I'm gonna use brave I think that's what a lot of people are settling on is brave for multiple reasons the the Cool way they try to monetize the web is I guess interesting enough But also because you know, it's open source. It's based on chromium. So your web So you're gonna be able to go the web whether websites you want to go to It's probably the one that I'm going to choose But like I said, I'm going to make a video separately when I do make my final choice Explaining why because I am going to be moving off in Firefox because Firefox should stay the hell out of my auto politics They should just completely leave politics behind and focus on being an open source company That's just my opinion. So Hey, look at that, I got the I got the key binding right. Oh Man what a disorganized mess of mess of a video, but you know what? What do you expect that's the name of the game when it comes to this and you want to my phone? Has been listening to this the entire time Because I said the word Google That's just I mean if there's any other reason why you should hate Google is because every time you say its name There's something freaking look. I didn't say okay Google Stop listening to me Google. 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