On the Edge of disaster: Microsoft's browser on Linux

https://linuximpact.com/on-the-edge-microsofts-browser-on-linux/

by dddavid • 2 years ago

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anthk2• 2 years ago

Chrome it's the new IE and Google the new MS but with far more data about you with the Google services, OSes, search and mail providers (Google knows even where did you spend your holidays as a tourist). Back with MS days, Windows was propietary, klunky, and slow, but you could install a tuned Knoppix and have a Debian testing for free and with Konqueror you could visit lots of sites in a free way.

Now, is not the case, Webkit exists in every FLOSS core place (it's a core QT dependency, it's even needed for Yelp, the Gnome's help viewer, something that should be done with a minimal HTML renderer such as the one from Netsurf) and Ungoogled Chromium is not so Ungoogled and a few bits of propietary crap still remain.

Bing it's just the same but with Microsoft. Brave it's plainly spyware, avoid that.

To avoid that 1984 world, you can use Mozilla with Arkenfox.js or cloning git://git.bitreich.org's config files and running "make" in the firefox/ subdir, because the default setup is not as private as you would think. The repo works for Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium by copying "default" file as the /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh and then chmod +x'ing it. It will give you a slight performance boost on older machines as it enforces the --light switch for the latter.

Also, well, having UBlock Origin it's mandatory, among LibRedirect if you don't need to login into Google/Twitter and a bunch of sites and but you want your fans your laptop stay quiet after visiting some JS ridden site such as Medium.

brucethemoose22• 2 years ago

I actually used Edge Linux on Arch for awhile because it worked with wayland better than other Chromium derivatives, it was very fast, and it had some features I would normally need extensions for (hence they also probably run faster).

It was pretty good, warts an all.

...But it seems to have progressively enshittified even more? I uninstalled it when it just got ridiculously bloated, and every time I check it on Windows it just gets worse.

anthk2• 2 years ago

Chromium has a switch for wayland:

       --ozone-platform=wayland

The best you can do:

    git clone git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters
    cd privacy-haters/chromium
    sudo cp default /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh

Edit /etc/profile.d/chromium.sh and append that flag at the end of the previous one.

brucethemoose22• 2 years ago

Yeah I know, but my problem is it would crash or artifact with native wayland, or at best break gpu acceleration completely.

Edge handled that better, for whatever reason.

On the Edge of disaster: Microsoft's browser on Linux

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