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Ask HN: What are alternatives to Chrome?

4 points by bloomca ↗ HN
I am curious, what people usually use. Is Chromium safe and bug-free enough to use it? Is anything worth outside Firefox/Safari?

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Bizarro
I'm using Brave and happy with it except for no sync as of right now.
dexterw10
Refrain from using chinese browsers. They tend to send private user data to chinese companies. Best alternative is Firefox. Chromium is a bit buggy & catches many ads & malware.
thepapanoob
> Chromium is a bit buggy & catches many ads & malware

chromium literally is the foundation of chrome... wich makes your statement rather wild

dexterw10
I installed Chromium...& it kept on crashing & installed some shitty adware on my device.
dexterw10
It's the foundation but Chrome is much more improved & stable. In my opinion.
chmielewski
Chrome/Chromium uses a lot of RAM but most computers these days have RAM in abundance. You can try Opera or Firefox but I would stick to the main big browsers if you aren’t stressing on RAM usage.
sidcool
Brave browser works pretty well on Android phones
Bizarro
Yep, had to switch to Brave on my Android phone too because Firefox was killing my battery.
Rjevski
Safari is pretty good, and while it's not open-source, it's from a company that so far has proven to be respectful of privacy.