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General Summary

Pale Moon is still the only decent way to browse the modern web that's actually relevant - but it's slowly rotting from the inside. Firefox is dying and will soon bring down all its forks alongside itself, surrendering the Web to Google whose abomination of a browser is just as worthless. Promising projects such as Otter Browser or suckless surf suffer from small dev teams, no / low addon support and don't have their own engines - so depend on Google / Apple, anyway. The only reasonable choice is Pale Moon. Or, just try wean yourself off the modern web by sticking to websites such as the ones on Neocities, wiby.me, etc. which are functional in NetSurf or terminal browsers. I hate to kill the positivity of yet another summary, but if reality forces me to - what can I do?

Browser/Feature │ Spying Engine Extensions GUI library Source code RAM usage

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Mozilla Firefox │ High Gecko WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~260MB

GNU IceCat │ None Gecko WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~120MB

LibreWolf │ Mild Gecko WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~260MB

Waterfox │ Medium Gecko WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~300MB

SeaMonkey │ Medium Gecko XUL GTK3 Yes (Full) ~120MB

TOR Browser │ Mild Gecko WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~260MB

Google Chrome │ High Blink WebExt GTK3 No (or not full) ~170MB

Iridium Browser │ Mild Blink WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~170MB

Ungoogled-chromium │ None Blink WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~170MB

Brave Browser │ Medium Blink WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~170MB

Dissenter Browser │ Medium Blink WebExt GTK3 Yes (Full) ~170MB

Opera │ High Blink WebExt GTK3 No (or not full) ~260MB

Vivaldi │ Medium Blink WebExt GTK3 No (or not full) ~290MB

Pale Moon │ Mild Goanna XUL GTK2 Yes (Full) ~100MB

RAM listings are rough, do not take them as gospel, just take note of the ratios with a grain of salt.