[lucb1e]

Sure, lots of people install custom browsers because they don't like the standard ones, myself included. Fennec (Firefox but from f-droid) is super slow, Chrome is not an option for privacy, but Lightning[1] is fast and has most of the features I want so that's what I use at the moment. It might be vulnerable for something, but I'm taking my chances with some lesser-known browser versus having the pain of a super slow browser all the time. This is also one of the reasons I don't have a banking app installed or have ssh keys on my phone or something: my phone is just not as trusted as my laptop.

I remember that UC is one of the ones I looked at, probably even installed to try it out.

Edit: sibling comments mention popularity in India or Asia, but I'm from the Netherlands. My brother also has a habit of finding custom things (independently from me), sometimes quite questionable apps... it's not just asians that install non-google apps.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/acr.browser.lightning/