Which engine does it use?
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Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Falkon browser isn’t a bad choice, there is no ad tracking, There’s block auto playing video function built in. All around a solid privacy respecting browser, compared to Firefox and Chrome.
I abandoned Firefox for Falkon for the last 2 years and hadn’t regretted it.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
ravhall@discuss.online 2 days ago
Probably chromium, haha, so no-go.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 days ago
It is built on the QtWebEngine, which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.
-Wikipedia
Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It uses qtwebengine, but it does have it’s own ui (making it less like Chrome) and some of its ownfeatures.
But which would you rather have an ai littered browser by default (Firefox), or use Blink.
Considering it’s just a rendering engine, and that the browser has adblocking built in,doesn’t automatically scream to me privacy invading. Unlike in Google Chrome you can even auto clear your browser history on close. The browser itself isn’t based on Chromium, when it first launched it had a different rendering engine.
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Qtwebengine is essentially chromium lol
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 days ago
It is built on the QtWebEngine, which is a wrapper for the Chromium browser core.
yeah, thats chromium bro
Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
When I first started using it it was using a different engine. If it’s using Chromium and it scares some of you, then don’t use it. But with Mozilla doing that they are doing now days with ai and ad networks, does it even make a difference now, between using Firefox and Chrome?
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Hmm. I’m using Waterfox rn.
Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
If it keeps out the ai features in the latest updates and the ad networks, then that fork and some of the other Firefox forks might be a good option.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Falkon is better for privacy than stock Chrome or Firefox, but I still find Brave or LibreWolf better than that.
Peffse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I chucked Brave shortly after they decided to install a VPN service on my machine without consent or notification.
A service that silently reinstalled itself on Brave update.
A service that did not remove itself when you uninstall Brave. It took a lot of research and time to rip out the guts of that. I will never trust Brave again.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think brave should be disregarded as something safe and privacy respecting if they were willing to silently whitelist Facebook trackers in the past. Then there is their whole crypto obsession.
They’re really not trustworthy. I’ve heard them frame themselves as being trustworthy but that’s about as meaningful as the dailywire claiming they are not hate speech.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I use Falkon for things I want to do outside my main browser, for instance if a site doesn’t work, to see if it’s on my side.
r00ty@kbin.life 2 days ago
Not taking any chances. https://winworldpc.com/product/ncsa-mosaic/1
Yes, that's right. I'm going to buy a 486, run windows 3.1 with trumpet winsock and be rid of tracking forever!
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Only problem is that you wouldn’t be able to visit most sites, because Mosaic only supports HTTP 1.0. You could go for Lynx, though. Just remember to disable the cookie support.
r00ty@kbin.life 2 days ago
Or, just spam V all the time!
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 days ago
Every single time someone mentions they abandoned firefox for something “better”, it’s chromium based. Privacy is good, but the most important for me is to avoid monopoly/monoculture.
Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I get it but, if it’s maintained by a different party then Google, even then there’s going to be some conflict of interest compared to Google’s Chrome and Brave’s Chrome for instance.
But if you would rather use the ai features in Firefox, then have at it. Falkon doesn’t have any mention of ai in it’s settings or features. Nor does it have an ad network. Sometimes you got to look at more then just “it’s based on Cromium.”
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 days ago
If they control the browser core they control the web, no two ways about it.
Rob200@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Would you say Webkit would be a better browser engine, since Blink was based on Webkit and not the other way around?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Falkon is based on QtWebEngine.
So not Chromium although they may share renderer, but last I heard it was based on Webkit.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 day ago
-Wikipedia