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just1602 wrote

If you want something more keyboard oriented you can check next.

Otherwise, there a good and short article about why it's now virtually impossible to have other browser than firefox (gecko) and chromium (webkit) or browser based on them.

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avbeav wrote

If you want something more keyboard oriented you can check next.

While I'd love to be using one of those browsers with vim-keybindings, I am just not into the run whatever code any page throws in your direction-style web and wouldn't be able to use anything that doens't have uMatrix-like functionality.

Sure, you can use a hosts-file but sometimes well meaning pages, especially newspapers, come with so much junk JavaScript beyond just the ads, like Salon.com with its cryptominer.

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just1602 wrote

Totally agree with you ! Tridactyl on Firefox or derived do a great job to bring vim-keybinding to the browser.

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kore wrote

whats your reasoning for the switch?

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castwoy OP wrote

New Firefox UI is a dumpster fire and they're forcing it on everyone soon

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kore wrote

ah I see. well you can always use Firefox ESR to keep it going a little longer. or are you talking about the current UI in stable?

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emma wrote

How so? Nightly still looks the same as the latest release.

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avbeav wrote (edited )

I like Links. It has both a graphical and a terminal mode.

Edit: There's also edbrowse which is radically different from other browsers. I've used it a little bit but haven't quite grokked it yet but I want to switch to it so bad.

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a_perfect_map wrote

Remember browser fingerprinting if privacy and/or anonymity at all matter to you. You can test how unique a signature your browser has at https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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jaidedctrl wrote

I'm using Otter personally, because it's so much more lightweight than Firefox, and can run on basically anything lol.

It supports all the important stuff— ad-blocking, proxies, custom keybindings, custom aesthetic, multiple profiles, etc. Everything works except some of the more complex “webapps.”

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