Browser comparison

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There is the other Problem that the Web Standard is becoming so complicated you can't Document it via Text any more. And Developing you own Web Engine may not be Possible without substantial Help and Funding.

As the Pale Moon team is intimately aware, this is because Google has forced draft specifications onto an unsuspecting public for well over a decade in a rather successful bid to maintain its monopoly. ‘Development’ is retrogression here. HTML 4·01 was fixed from 1999 to 2008; HTML 5 early became a moving target by design. Can any of us honestly say that the Web has become truly more capable since 2007?

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For the browser choice discussion, you can always use multiple browsers! Sometimes it makes sense to compartmentalize where you have a main browser, maybe another browser for work or a side project, a third browser for sessions where you don't want to keep history, and even a fourth like Tor Browser for when you want the most security. And you can achieve something similar with different browser profiles and such. Not to mention the mix of browsers and engines you can use on mobile if you're using a smartphone.

I use Vivaldi for my personal computer, Firefox on my gaming computer, Edge for work, Brave for mobile (Android), and Vivaldi for reading also on Android. By compartmentalizing my data I make sure that there's only so much being stored and potentially leaked from any given browser. Not to mention the things that are deleted regularly by using a browser that automatically deletes local browsing data.

[Mæstro]

Keeping a secondary browser is common in the Pale Moon community. LibreOffice requires one of Firefox, Chrome, Konqueror or Epiphany as a dependency. I have the last of these installed, but would prefer Konqueror if I knew more about its ability to block adverts. I also keep a three-year-old version of Ungoogled Chromium installed as another backup browser. While I have meant to swap Basilisk for it, I have not yet bothered to do so.