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by HappyFunGuy 3629 days ago
What good browser is free of this horror?
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Firefox prompts you before even turning on search prediction, and it asks you about telemetry at first startup.
For people like me Firefox offer the best of both worlds:

* No google keylogger in the main url bar (but local autocomplete based on previous history, bookmarks etc)

* access to autocomplete in search field next to url bar (I think removing this was one of the simplifications in the original Chrome.)

Ctrl-L: go to url bar

Ctrl-K: go to search field

Firefox?
Qutebrowser.
qutebrowser¹ is fantastic. I just wish it had more ways to block trackers on webpages (other than just completely disabling JavaScript—even being able to whitelist JavaScript on certain hostnames would be a huge start).

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¹ — https://qutebrowser.org/

Chromium?
Is it though?
It is, if you don't sign the browser into Google, disable all telemetry and prediction options, and use a non-Google search engine.