I keep seen everyone recommend FF and Safari, but are there any other options that you would recommend?
That’s the thing, that’s it.
Firefox (Gecko), Chromium (Blink) and Safari (Webkit) are the only serious browser engines left.
Every other remotely relevant browser is just a rehash of these and it’s usually from really shady for-profit companies such as Opera or Brave.
There’s also Falkon, which has its own engine, but it’s far behind the others. Firefox is the only good choice in my opinion.
Falkon uses a Chromium wrapper https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-overview.html
qtwebengine is chromium? I always thought it was webkit…
It used to be. This change is also news to me. Really sad tbh.
Thanks, didn’t know that. The name Qtwebengine is a bit misleading.
Like everyone else is saying: there only really are chromium (blink), firefox (gecko) and Safari (WebKit). All other functional modern browsers are based on those. It’s best to stick to one of them or a well known fork and customized them to your liking.
If you really want a “full” browser experience, there was konqueror a few years back. I don’t know how reliable it is these days.
If you wish for a ‘minimal’ and lightweight but functional browser experience you can try midori.
Fun fact, konqueror is the progenitor of Safari and Chrome.
Opera once wasn’t as shady and had their own engine. It was quite snappy and low on resources.
It is a shame they didn’t open source their engine when they switched to Chrome.
Someone leaked the source code, but of course no one serious will touch it.
You can get most of Safari through GNOME Web if you’re on Linux. You can use various Firefox forks if you don’t like Firefox itself.
That’s about it, to be honest. Ladybird is being built but it’s far from complete yet. You can use Lynx and friends if you want to give terminal only browsing a go. Servo is pretty complete but Mozilla dropped them and development had been affected.
IE, Edge, and Opera all used to have their own browser engine. Now we just have three engines left, two if you ignore the meagre 4% market share Firefox still maintains.
