Suggestion for a fallback browser

[ownedbywuigi]

I use Microsoft Edge as my fallback browser (on both OSX and Windows), only because I find it to be the fastest (aside from Thorium, but that has not been updated in eons)

[Goodydino]

I explicitly prefer https://www.crx4chrome.com/ over Chrome Store.

As for fallback, so far, it was either Edge (sometimes Thorium) or Firefox.

The extensions on that site are not up to date. I use Vivaldi, a chromium browser and I noticed that Violentmonkey, AdGuard, and uBlock Origin are not up to date compared with the versions I have in Vivaldi.

[UCyborg]

From quick search, Violentmonkey and uBlock Origin are there in their latest 2.35.0 and 1.70.0 versions at the time of this writing. Though AdGuard is a bit behind, but still from current month. I don't know any other site with normal links to CRXs.

If I remember correctly, it's possible to get bleeding edge developer version of uBO, though I reference the official "stable" versions above.

I use Microsoft Edge as my fallback browser (on both OSX and Windows), only because I find it to be the fastest (aside from Thorium, but that has not been updated in eons)

You mean the one for Win7? The main version is from February.

[van p]

Thorium, but that has not been updated in eons

I thought it was dead, but it finally updated in mid-Feb. It's usable enough for me, but it, I guess, will never be up-to-date with Chrome.

[nero355]

At the end, Firefox should be the best choice if you are looking for a browser with minimal differences from Pale Moon. In my opinion.

In which parallel world is that exactly ?!

Pale Moon is the best looking browser both under Windows and Linux (GTK2 here) while Mozilla Firefox has become just as horrible as Google Chrome and all it's family members !!!

The only thing that would make Pale Moon even more superior is if it could look the same under Linux as it does under Windows :
- Everything nice and sharp shaped.
- ZERO waste of screenspace.



Anyways...



I am using the following :
- Debian 13 - Trixie
- Pale Moon - GTK2 version
- LibreWolf - Multiple Profiles for different purposes.
- Mozilla Firefox ESR that comes standard with Debian.

And both LibreWolf and Firefox needed some serious modding to be useable for me : https://github.com/nero355/All-Mozilla- ... ifications
All those about:config and userChrome.css modifications were done on LibreWolf and then copied to Firefox ESR afterwards.

There is still work that needs to be done, but it's a nice start, however don't expect it to be a small one! LOL!

[Octopuss]

Waterfox.
Although I would love to know whether there is an extension that would automatically backup and restore sessions. because by default when the thing crashes badly, it creates a blank profile for whatever reason and I have to edit the stupid config file to point it to the correct one.

Noone knows? There must be a FF extension that does this.

[UCyborg]

Tab Mix Plus has its own session management. Not really familiar with it beyond knowing it exists, but session backup is mentioned in its context.

Honestly, stock session management has worked quite well for me (both Firefox and Pale Moon), especially considering how fragile it's supposed to be.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

Pale Moon is the best looking browser both under Windows and Linux (GTK2 here) while ...

While I of course agree about the look of GTK2 Pale Moon (the look was what motivated me to move from Firefox to Pale Moon many years ago (I came later to appreciate privacy, customizability and support), I am a bit surprised by the replies received.

I suppose it is my fault. I did not explicitly say I am looking for a solution which is Linux-only. and preferably either available as: (a) a .deb package in the standard synaptic repository; (b) a .deb package in another repository (as I have installed and update google-chrome); (c) a tar file with automatical update (as Pale Moon). I do not want snap's or alike, and I do not want to install from source (not a thing I am afraid of, but for packages I use very frequently, which is not what I intend to do with the fallback browser).

I do agree bout all bad things have been said here about GUI look and feel, but I am ready to accept what I get (even if I do not like it) for a fallback browser.
A fallback browser is something I use very seldom. Namely when I have to join google-meet or zoom meetings, or when I have to acccess the 2-3 commercial sites I use two or three times per year. And I hope not to have to use it for my online banking (currently I use Pale Moon in private window mode ... but recently I noticed a couple of quirks ... some plots appear in a blank page, and a print page to disk crashed PM last time I tried).

But essentially I am looking for a guide to customize (harden) google-chrome or a close relative in a way not to save cookies, history or passwords, nor cache. May be should I delete $HOME/.config/google-chrome and $HOME/.cache/google-chrome and let it recreate afresh ? And/or run always in incognito mode ?

As I said I am ready to run with whatever look-and-feel, and without adblocker (the commercial sites I use won't do ads for third parties)

[moonbat]

Tab Mix Plus has its own session management.

Their feature predates its addition to Firefox. Since then they let you turn it off and stick to the built-in version.

[Mæstro]

Noone knows? There must be a FF extension that does this.

Must there? WebExtensions are only capable of achieving what JavaScript or selected popular extensions as of a decade ago can.

[sidology]

Noone knows? There must be a FF extension that does this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... n-manager/

[Octopuss]

Noone knows? There must be a FF extension that does this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... n-manager/

I do have that installed but it's not doing that.
For PM I have this https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/session-manager/, and when it crashes badly I get a popup on next start asking me what sessions to open. That's basically what I'm looking for.