Chromium-based browser?

[Tapwave]

Long story short, I'm using Citrio, and Avast is now blocking updates, since it's now considered adware and spyware.
Anyone has a preferred Chromium browser that isn't Google Chrome? I tried Comodo Dragon but it utterly wrecked several sites I use.

[Rachael]

Any reason in particular it must be Chromium, and not Google Chrome? It would be easier to make recommendations based on your needs rather than such vague parameters.

Personally, I use Seamonkey. Although that's Gecko-based, it suits my needs well and has an old-fashioned interface (accessibility > "sleek and modern look").

[Tapwave]

Any reason in particular it must be Chromium, and not Google Chrome? It would be easier to make recommendations based on your needs rather than such vague parameters.

Personally, I use Seamonkey. Although that's Gecko-based, it suits my needs well and has an old-fashioned interface (accessibility > "sleek and modern look").

I don't particularly enjoy having all my browser data in a branded program, mostly. I'd prefer a more independent developer, but apparently Catalina Software (the citrio guys) aren't to be trusted, so maybe you're right.

[Dancso]

It came to me as a surprise today that my phone has access to the browser history on my PC. I use Chrome.
I guess that might be reason enough for some to not use it. There's probably a way to disable it but I mean, if there's one hidden feature that saves your behaviour on their servers, there's gonna be more.

[Graf Zahl]

I am using Firefox for normal browsing, but in case I come across one misbehaving website I use Iron as a fallback, this is also Chromium based. No chance I use a Google browser for my daily needs, who knows what data they are grabbing...

[wildweasel]

Perhaps have a look at Vivaldi, a browser designed by the team that worked on older versions of Opera. It's Chromium-based, IIRC.

[SuperSomariDX]

I use SRWare Iron. It works well enough for me for chromium based.

Ooo, I'm liking Vivaldi. Thanks, Weasel.

[Kostov]

Eruanna, is Seamonkey accessible in a way that most browsers with sleek and modern looks aren't?

Graf, Google probably have more data than they know what to do with.

Weasel, nice browser you brought up. Too bad it has a panel for downloads and everything instead of a button somewhere like Chrome. Though, it's still good.

[Hellser]

Another one is Opera, which is what I've been using. With an addon, you can use Chrome's addons. I like it, and haven't had much issues with it.

[Rachael]

Eruanna, is Seamonkey accessible in a way that most browsers with sleek and modern looks aren't?

Seamonkey and Palemoon are similar (though they do not have similar development goals).

Seamonkey is kind of an all-in-one browser that picks up where Netscape Navigator left off. It's developed and funded by the same team as Firefox but the interface is not moved forward quite nearly as much as Firefox's is. It has add-on compatibility with Firefox <2 for strictly interface addons, and Firefox >39 for strictly webpage-modifying addons. (Everything else, it gets a little tricky)

I use Seamonkey because I prefer it. I abandoned Firefox at about Firefox 15 or so because I was getting tired of the interface changes and Seamonkey restored much of the old interface that Firefox left behind.

The main reason to favor Seamonkey/Palemoon is if you used browsers about 18 years or so ago, you had all your buttons on one bar and you didn't need all the gimmicky bells and whistles. This is a somewhat minimized view of how my browser window looks:

In my opinion, Seamonkey is also faster, but it is vulnerable to all the same abuse Firefox is, unfortunately.

The only downside is, Mozilla does not offer an official 64-bit version of Seamonkey but there are people who compile those, so it's not that bad.

[Marisa the Magician]

Anyone has a preferred Chromium browser that isn't Google Chrome?

I uh... just use Chromium itself. I don't see any reason to get some random fork.

[Dancso]

I think the whole spying thing is kind of collateral damage. I don't really have anything to hide, they aren't allowed to misuse any legal sensitive information they might find about me. I look at it the same way like getting my car's licence plate read by some person counting traffic on a road. I'm mostly statistics to them, but some use also comes my way later down the line (ie more relevant search results).

With a blocker addon I haven't had any concerns of the browser being insecure either.

EDIT: oh yeah, and I planned on heavy Chrome tab use with my RAM purchase

[Caligari87]

I've pretty much given myself up to the Google gods at this point. They have my travel and movement history, my voiceprint, my face, my search habits, my email, my photos, my videos, most of my browsing history, my social connections, even my to-do and shopping lists. When they said "our goal is to make the ship's computer from Star Trek," I pretty much rolled over and said "take me now."

Hail Google.

[Rachael]

I think the whole spying thing is kind of collateral damage. I don't really have anything to hide, they aren't allowed to misuse any legal sensitive information they might find about me. I look at it the same way like getting my car's licence plate read by some person counting traffic on a road. I'm mostly statistics to them, but some use also comes my way later down the line (ie more relevant search results).

My concern isn't what Google (or Microsoft) does with the information they collect.

My concern is that these companies are not the Fort Knox type computer security a lot of people think they are. They get hacked, and then all the information gets leaked - then what are you going to do?

This is why I have always been opposed to data collection policies and practices in the first place - it's simply not needed, and in the bigger picture it's really just a liability. What REALLY are you doing with all that data, and why do you actually need it?

The less of yourself that you allow to go online - the better off you are in the long run. It's probably impossible to be perfectly anonymous in this day and age, but any steps you take sure don't hurt. Remember that Ashley Madison hack? Yeah ... somehow that was one thing that didn't affect me in the slightest.

[Graf Zahl]

Obviously being totally anonymous is not an option, I actually WANT people to be able to see my programming efforts on ZDoom.
But I am very careful with private information, it's really pointless to spread this via Facebook, Twitter and all the others. I do not have an account on any of those sites and even for web search I use Startpage, not Google. And when I need to search for something really sensitive I use Tor to ensure that it cannot be traced back at all.