just use firefox. its not that hard
Excuse me if this is an obnoxious question: But why not just Firefox with the DDG extension (if you really need it)? Search engine-specific browsers tend to be... bad in general. It's going to be a wrapper around some other browser anyway.
FIREFOX
If your on windows consider installing though scoop.sh
On linux just use Flatpak
Scoop and Chocolatey are the only ways to make Windows usable. But Flatpak on Linux will always be the easiest and beat solution, because Linux is simply the best OS.
YES
HELL YEAH
FUCK CHROMIUM, GOOGLE AND ALL OF BIG TECH
YES
Firefox with ublock origin is even better than the DuckDuckGo browser alone. Yes, you can use DuckDuckGo as a default search engine, and even install the extension, if you need to.
Please dont use DDG browser or even worse edge or opera.
Use Librewolf, Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium.
Opera in particular is a dangerous browser to run these days, it’s owned by confirmed scammers and investment-scheme operators.
If you want something with the same ideological history as Opera, run Vivaldi, which was created by ex-Opera engineers.
But yes, for true openness, Librewolf, Waterfox, or Firefox is the way to go.
Yeah If you need any reason to stop using opera, here it is: https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-opera-browser/
Is vivaldi a good alternative?
It is okay, but has little fingerprint protection and still some tracking.
Just use Firefox.
Try googleteller, its a program you can easily clone, compile and run, which beeps if you are connecting to a google server. Chromium even with a very extensive policy and everything GUI degoogled ALWAYS connects to google, repeatedly and very worrying
Floorp is a nice Firefox fork with a similar mind of customisation as old opera or vivaldi
They use ESR because otherwise their GUI stuff would break. So under the fancy hood you have a very dated browser...
Well prepared to be failed again https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/opera-sold-600-million-chinese-consortium/
Worth mentioning that Vivaldi is basically the spiritual successor of Opera, and it's doing pretty well at that. It's still Chromium based though, so unless you really miss Opera for the functionality you're better off with Firefox.
Still, rather Vivaldi than Opera, Chrome, or Edge.
Oh yeah! I am not using Opera any more, and as mentioned it is "parked" so I only have it installed but never use it . I just wanted to check if the issue was browser based of due to my PC. I have updated my post though, because I found out that I had turned off Hardware Acceleration on DuckDuckgo and that was the issue causing the choppy experience
Like most people said, use Firefox with the DDG extension or use Librewolf (just a heads up Librewolf by default deletes all history and cookie so disable that before signing in)
Librewolf is amazing
not to mention the Microsoft Edge processes when that is the last of any browser that I would choose to use
I believe all DDG browsers are webview based, so they use the already installed platform WebView as the engine and add the browser functionalities on top, that's not really a bad thing, since it saves space by avoiding duplicating such a huge component. Realistically, if they rolled their own, it would 100% be another Chromium fork and the Edge WebView is already based on Chromium so it's kind of (but not totally) pointless
Does this comparison actually take into account whether you are using the same tabs on both browsers and keeping them in the same state?
I've noticed, for example, that in chromium, I can permanently increase CPU usage just by opening a console in a tab and leaving it alone in the background, even if the tab itself is doing nothing.
If both browsers have the exact same number of tabs open, I would question why one has around 40 processes and one has around 20. That number should correspond roughly to the number of tabs/extensions you have open.
Thanks for the concern. At the end of the post I have added an update to this. It turns out that I had turned off hardware acceleration on the DDG browser and that was the reason it was tapping on my CPU instead
Best browsers for 3D stuff like games and CADs are chromium based.
I generally use Librewolf (Firefox fork) but for gaming and 3d modeling use Brave. I think it's tge best chromium based browser.
Give Cromite a try. Seems to work well for a chrome browser. I only use it as a secondary, with FF as my primary. It's available on Android, Windows and Linux.
Wait, Cromite is available for linux?
Apparently yes 😃 Such joy! Didn't knew it either until I read about it here.
Arch users can install it through AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cromite-bin
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