Archived Why have Google and Chrome become evil, and what is the similar alternative at this point? (AskVoat)
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[–] rwbj 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
I installed Pale Moon maybe an hour ago and was actually thinking about making a post about it. It's a FireFox fork that has stripped out the bloat of FireFox along with their misguided attempt to look like Chrome, cleaned up the codebase, and overall runs vastly better and in my opinion looks better as well.
I'd heard people recommend it because of the performance issue but never really bothered because I figured it couldn't be 'that big' a difference. Oh it is. Especially if you're like me and have a habit of having some odd 70 tabs open. It's running buttery smooth and doesn't have FireFox's arbitrarily memory leaks and constant CPU spiking (why is a browser spiking my CPU up ~10% when idle?). Anyhow, yeah. It's good stuff.
edit Google alternatives: I think Google still has the clearly best search engine. You can get the best of both worlds of privacy and search performance by using https://search.disconnect.me/. It lets you pick a search engine, including google, and returns results directly from it while acting as a middle man to avoid the snooping and datamining. They have plugins available for all major browsers to search using them from your URL bar as well.