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Post by mikkh on Apr 10, 2024 8:56:41 GMT
A few minor niggles with Chrome had me searching for alternatives, which is not easy because I also wanted the ability to login to Google to get access to my bookmarks.
Most Chrome alternatives don't let you do that, but Thorium does. Opera once claimed to be the fastest browser on Earth and now Thorium also makes this rather bold claim.
It certainly seems faster thanks to optimisations for more modern CPU's that Chrome lacks, but don't worry you'd have to have a really ancient PC not to benefit from this.
It also has uBlock origin (adblocker) built in, which seems fine and blocks YouTube annoying ads.
My Google account browser settings also included Adblock Plus which it did bring back as part of my signing in to Google, but I thought what's the point of having two installed and deleted that from extensions.
uBlock seems fine so far and also solves my growing discontent with Adblock Plus which has too many 'acceptable ads' they let through. So a double bonus for me, new browser, new adblocker.
Early days, certainly far too early to wholly recommend it, but it's looking good so far and will probably become my default browser.
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Post by mikkh on Apr 17, 2024 9:16:31 GMT
A week later, no showstopper bugs found but I've turned off all the featured Thorium experiments as not applicable to me.
There is some concern from the ultra cautious/paranoid in the security fraternity that because other extensions can't be switched off or disabled, that is a possible problem.
I'm no expert in that field and it was just one negative review I found, but all variations of Chromium (Opera,Edge,Chrome,Brave,Vivaldi etc) are adapted/customised in some way.
It's definitely faster than Chrome and would be a good option for people with older hardware who are starting to notice slower browsing.
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