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hey Hikarins. i want to talk about alternative browsers: which ones you like, which ones you dislike, which ones you think are interesting, whatever. we all know about Ungoogled Chromium, Librewolf and Pale Moon, so although discussion of those browsers is fine, i really wanna see some niche stuff. bonus points for browsers that function on the modern web or browsers that have weird designs or usecases. this is also a good opportunity to talk about projects that push away from Google's domination of the browser market through Chromium and their proxy Mozilla. my browser to start this thread is Basilisk. used to be owned by the Male Poon team but now is independent. runs a similar codebase to PM but has some modern technologies like WebRTC and such. from what i can tell it seems to function fine as a modern browser, and although it's lacking in extensions/themes it has the necessities like adblock, userscripts, etc. i'd consider this as pretty independent from Google/Mozilla as far as functioning browsers go since the codebase is based on old Firefox.
and good scissors
not that niche but i like qutebrowser 
its not good for extensions but i enjoy its simplicity and being able to mold it to your liking
Luakit 
it's free, GPLv3 licensed, written in Lua and C, and the devs are nice. I have also written a few extensions for it; a redirector, a work-in-progress uMatrix fork (4th or 5th iteration, I keep running into problems)
unlike Qutebrowser, which has an asshole dev that doesn't care about your security 
(see https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/7777) for the issue, tldr; WebGL remained available to sites even though I disabled it, and the dev just dismissed it like it was no problem 
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>>1483 I self compiled Basilisk, to use system-libs wherever possible, as Serpent. I even wrote and maintained an ebuild for it for about a year. Ended up leaving it because of how openly hostile towards the use of system libraries Moonchild and his two lackies are. I remember asking for help at one point because something changed in the build process that broke my ebuild, but the error message wasn't helpful (at least to me; I cam fix scripts and bits of code sometimes, but I'm not a browser programmer). I asked a question, and then got laid into for my "unauthorized" ebuild. This was a little before Moonchild and his lackies lost their shit on some *BSD repo that had "unauthorized" ports, which led to even more drama. I think one of his buddies even lamented that the codebase was opensource, and expressed admiration for how MS used to handle code. I probably won't go back to it, now that I am using and am happy with Librewolf, but I am glad to hear it is an independent project now.\ In the past I used to use SeaMonkey (sad it doesn't get more love), Midori (the old one), and even used Kazehakase (sp?) for a while WAAAAAYYYYY back.
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Has anyone tried Dillo by chance?