There's also Falkon, now a KDE project, which I prefer. The UI is more like Firefox, and it's QtWebEngine-only, which is maintained, unlike QtWebKit these days.<p><a href="https://www.falkon.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.falkon.org/</a>
The problem I really have with all these alternative browsers is one of trust. It always comes down to just blindly trusting the signed binaries posted online by "some internet guy" on a random website. Even Chromium suffers from this. For an application which I will be entering credit card details, social security numbers, and all other imaginable form of private data, this is non-negotiable.
Having used Opera for many years this sounded intriguing. After playing around with it for a bit, less so. Ok it got the mouse gestures, thanks, but for the rest: lots of small quirks which make it feel way too alpha (UI looks messy, different colors for menu bars and address bar/tabs, search box is pretty small, seems to use multiple icon themes or so, buttons with text clipped, ALT-D goes to address bar but doesn't select all text, the new tab page doesn't show icons nor tile images nor address so you have to hover to find out what a tie does, ...), doesn't feel particularly fast, and it doesn't have mail which was like the single thing making me stick with Opera for too long :P<p>Apart from that it's pretty cool nonetheless, and good that people still remember the proper Opera of back in the days.
Looks nice, their front-page really could use some pagination love, I shouldn't get more than 10 weeks worth of updates on 1 page. I have to scroll all the way to the bottom before I can see the FAQ which is something I'd want immediately available without having to scroll down too far, or on it's own page, otherwise people will just think they don't even have an FAQ.
The only reason I prefer Chrome over competitors is the speed of startup (including cold) even with <i>lots</i> of open tabs. I close and start the browser many times and so far nothing beats Chrome.
It is admirable that they took on this job, but I would probably stay away from it for serious things because of security aspect. Modern browsers (Chrome - Firefox) are probably a much safer choice.
My problem with alternative browsers is that I'm locked-in because of a few plugins, and I cannot be bother reinstalling all settings and plugins (including plugin settings) when I change computer.<p>Any browser that will let me sync settings and plugins, and that has the plugins I need (Slither, Pocket, AdGuard), I'll try and continue using if it works for me.<p>Otherwise, it's hard.