The Best Web Browser 

One Disclaimer for Arch Users: Widevine does not seem to work in the AUR package of Thorium-Browser. I had to install chromium-widevine separately to view DRM content.

I wonder if you could do a video on Norton's browser.

Thanks for the filter lists. I'm surprised I didn't think about filter lists to remove RU-vid shorts. Damn I hate shorts and short form content. It's so mind numbing. Thanks a ton for that!

Just the sign-in? Yea, it is basically de-googled

blocking shorts? Based

Do you think Thorium is better than Mercury?

To be fair, most of the things, that Mercury does can be done in vanilla Firefox, if you know how to edit config files, since Mercury is just a Firefox with custom config and branding. Thorium is a little bit different, since Chromium is very limited, when it comes to configuration and many things have to be changed/added in the browser's source code. PS. Also, Mercury's release cycle leaves a lot to be desired, since it's still stuck on 115 build, when Firefox and Librewolf are on 118.

Is it better then floorp

Can it use Firefox extensions?

According to Phoronix benchmarks, it is not faster. Especially against current v118 vanilla Firefox, which totally dominates it. I will not argue about particular benchmarks accuracy, but the end result is obviously depends on hardware and OS.

VISTA!!!!!!!!!!!

Does it sync with PC version? I mean - does it have any synchronization?

wow// link please

@@simsinger9489 Are you asking for XP or Android?

Yeah but Android Google sync is broken, so the android app is kinda useless atm

Never trust anyone (c)

Debloat irrespective of who recommends is bad than good. I am pretty sure none of these guys do it in their own computers.

@@mrawther I do, I reformat a lot of computers from my customers, I use his debloat utility all the time although I dont use every setting in it, only the ones that wouldn't bother with the customer's experience, such as not removing search and somtimes not removing edge if they use it as their browser.

same

LTT is for keeping up with the trends and hardware news. Chris is for making our lives better, personally I've only used his windows debloater, but his videos are always entertaining to watch.

Mind to share what you think of the experience later?

“Thorium OS FIX” ❤ Can’t wait!

You can just turn off the bloat no? Also brave has a few features chromium and thorium don't that are actually useful.

@@joesu1833 you can disable the brave crypto stuff but there really should be a brave "lite" or something, also I think thorium is perfect for me when it comes to features, dk what brave has that would make me stick with it.

@@joesu1833 which features?

@@joesu1833 having to turn of bloat is still bloat

Has anyone done any benchmarks to see if turning off the bloat of Brave improves the speed? I tested Thorium browser but its Google promotion in the Sync and Sign-in and the default search engine, turned me off. At least offer Presearch as an option.

Absolutely. Most of the telemetry was added in W10. Some at launch, some over time as it updated. I still wouldn't use W7, though. W7 was EOL as of 2020, and shouldn't be used. Security should be taken seriously.

Win 7 is goated

@@madness1931 What specific security threats which cannot be secured, or is this just M$ FUDD being spread yet again?? "Oh you MUST upgrade to our new ver$ion and new $urface machine to be secure."

Windows 10 can consume 2.5GB of RAM for OS only with all those bloat stuff, when Windows 7 only use 1.3GB for system I use Windows 11 now (as I bought a new laptop last month) and I can still cut down the OS RAM usage to 1.7GB with universal debloater

use tiny10 or tiny11, or a ltsc version. i loved w7 but the eol update and most programs closing support for it or even shutting down like steam makes it hard to use

Nuclear fusion browser

how do you install the windows version ?

Mercury is useless. It's literally slower or on par with regular Firefox

Wonder how they compare to the security of Tor. Trying to be a security enthusiast is hard given any time you try the browser it ends up breaking functionality.

Without Brave's built-in adblock here you either have to load & display more crap on web sites, or use an adblock extension like uBlock that eats a lot of memory. So I have big doubts about Thorium using less memory or loading sites faster, don't see how it would work.

But he's got like eleventy billion extensions bloating up Thorium, no?? :) That's bloat right there.

​@@jsega996kiwi is a chromium fork that allows all chrome extensions.

After 3 months of your comment , did they fix it or release updates for more stability on Mac ?

@@Lenin286 how about 8?

I feel like a good browser gets out of the way and Brave has been doing exactly the opposite more and more

This guy made a Firefox version

I thought I was the only one xD. I dont know why brave is so popular among FOSS enthusiasts, it feels too bloated and "branded" (if that makes sense) and they've had their fair amount of shady moves in the past. Is not a project I would trust tbh.

You are in for a Surprise soon...Firefox is a "Woke" company.

Lol. Keep thinking that until the other shoe drops.

Under the hood there are still only 3 browser existing

The number of -browsers- forks of Chrome(Chromium) seem to increase every year. FTFY.

​@@maxnew453under the hood there are still 3 OSs

@@MehMeh-mj5hn Not if you count BSD and Solaris. "One, two, five!"

And like Linux, they're all the same underneath

dude time to upgrade XD

.....dows

Take it as 7 wins

I still miss NT.

@@beachdog67 i miss Cosmopolitan and Fingerhut magazines

Windows 7 Supermium Browser ( chrome 118 - chromium - blink engine ) Windows 7 Catsxp Browser ( chrome 119 - chromium - blink engine ) Made in China Windows 7 Yandex Browser ( chrome 116 - chromium - blink engine ) Made in Russia Windows 7 Mullvad Browser ( Firefox 115 ESR version - gecko engine - Mozilla ) Made in Sweden /whatismybrowser//html5test//woolyss/ Windows 7 Pale Moon Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 Basilisk Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 Tor Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 Firefox ESR 115 Version Browser ( work updates ) Windows 7 SeaMonkey Browser ( work updates )(old Firefox ESR version) Windows 7 LibreWolf Browser - last version 116 ( no more updates )(Firefox 116) Windows 7 (last version 109 / no more updates ) Google Chrome, Brave Browser, Comodo Dragon, Opera Browser, Opera GX, Cốc Cốc Browser, Maxthon Browser, Chromium Browser, Microsoft Edge

oh my god bro

2. Chromium is an open source project that happened to be initiated and actively maintained by Google. The adblock filter issue is not present on other chromium based browsers because the open source community removed the forks made by Google

Get a real job.

Nice

can you type in url? can you click on a bookmark? yeah I think you can use it with no issues... it's not rocket science... it's a frigging browser...

It really feels/looks like chrome. Bookmarks and preferences also transfer automatically upon signin to Google with 0 issues. Can't answer the HTML query tho.

Good thing it is all open source. Obviously, bad intentions can stay under the radar for quite some time, but it's up to the community to check the code.

That was my thought as well. Sounds great, but I will not leave it up to one person.

@@covrtdesign5279 Better than leaving it up to a team of incompetent, overpaid, disinterested employees like Firefox does.

Open source does not add security if no one checks the code, and with obscure small projects it's unlikely there are people going through the code@@NakedTrashPanda

@@NakedTrashPanda That is so misleading... So many npm packages go rouge and get unnoticed FOR YEARS, they have million installs, they are open source....

Ok, igoon to try tha

the release is very old though

👀

How is it in terms of search censorship? That's the main problem for me, not the speed.

@@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT Isnt that managed by the search engine, and not the browser?

@@clemente_01 Yep, I was hoping Thorium had its own search engine. Existing search engines are all compromised.

usable? any experience with win2000 or win xp? cant find downloadlink (for xp)

Can you sync your bookmarks on all of your different devices with Mercury?

@@mireafelder8194 yes, same as Firefox if I’m not mistaken.

trying it out, looks good

the logo looks like among us :D

where do you guys find these forks😭

@@gh6stz between the knives and spoons usually.

@@LandyVlad_Rides (mock anger) YOU! OUT!!

Hmm it looks to be safe since Chris is using it on his main email it's also well known in the community it is open source try looking through it

🤣xd but he did own it up.

It is actually named after the element Thorium (just like Chromium is named after the element Chromium), and Thorium is a radioactive element used in so called "breeder" reactors.

Ublock origin appears to be installed by default - but can easily be uninstalled if you don't want it. (in the windows installer version anyway)

I just downloaded it on windoze... Ublock seems to be installed by default :)

@@LandyVlad_Rides Thanks 😎I installed the browser and it is included and will use this browser rather than brave. Chris showed how fast it is and mine is doing the same thing😎

@@zebo-the-fat it comes included

Yeah but its EOL so security vulnerabilities are a thing

have you ever heard of debian

​@@sleepynet13Have you ever heard of Fedora?

if you’re using tor you should never be using any other browser than tor browser because by using tor browser you have the smallest fingerprinting surface and it makes you look similar to the other millions who are using tor on tor browser

@@prod-NC-17 Most people just care about the VPN part.

@@Gamer-ct6hb so just use a vpn

​@@prod-NC-17 You're referring to being as generic as possible by using the standard packaged Firefox based browser? I see the logic in this, that said there must be an awful lot of Brave based users out there already - how significant is this variation do you think? I'm not always a fan of Firefox in the way it handles some sites generally.

@@prod-NC-17 Most people just care about the FREE VPN part.

how did u installed it?

@@KatieGeorgieva I think I've downloaded the dmg file (Thorium_MacOS_ARM.dmg for silicon Mx) from their website

for me it wasn't working also on my windows laptop but I searched a bit on the thorium website and found the SSE3 Builds that worked just fine 4 me.

try using it too on your main desktop

There's an SSE3 build under the windows 7 section that should run on older hardware. I'm in the same boat, not having a CPU that supports SSE4

@@andythekitsune I run Linux more or less universally, so the Windows version won’t do anything for me.

Vivaldi is also kinda like Vivaldi.

what?@@MrShoorf

Brave is good specially when its come to blocking ads and trackers it does the job smoothly but for crypto stuff you need to turn off them from setting and then you can use it smoothly

​@@unfunnynaqqash people who use brave mainly for adblocking don't know what extensions are 😅

Can't you Just Import data from another browser. From settings?

For me the feature I like the most from Vivaldi is the multi-stacking tab support. No other browser can hold as much open tabs as Vivaldi browser. 💪 My main browser is LibreWolf though and it's been great so far. 👍

Features are nice, but it's noticably slower than Chrome and Firefox, and less stable too if you have large numbers of tabs and windows

lol ive been using cromite since 115 and never notice they also make windows builds. Will try soon, thanks

Do you need a built in adblocker if you already use ublock? Genuinely curious, as im concidering switching away from brave.

@@theresurrection6561 In chrome and firefox on PC/laptop I still use UB Origin, but on android tablet, brave seems the ad blocking choice

it does block ads

It works for me running it on a fairly fresh Arch/DWM install for whatever it's worth.

I'm using 1Password in it