Good browser you would recommend that are not firefox,chrome,edge

[masetheone]

Good browser you would recommend

I have been using firefox for a while on windows 7 and I was able to block updates through a registry hack but firefox figured it out anyway and kept annoying me about updates and that my firefox would no longer be supported. Now I am getting trouble with websites which require sensitive information(i.e banks, credit card numbers) I am thinking its my version of firefox and I could update to the latest one whatever that is but firefox is worse now and what are your recommendations as a good alternative that will work with mainstream websites.

Nobody replied but I will add a few browsers. First r3dfox is pretty good, its a newer version of firefox slimmed down which is made to work on windows 7. For firefox browsers, there is waterfox, then there is pulse browser and Floorp. Floorp is very interesting because it gives you alot of options to customize how it looks and its made in Japan.

For chrome based browsers, there is sr ironware which is chrome more privacy focused, iridium which is similar and also Thorium browser which is supposedly the fastest browser in the world. I haven't got it to work yet.

 

[mintstar]

Now, this one is Chromium-based but the best (and maybe the only) option if you want to still surf the internet on old OSes. That being Supermium by win32ss.

 

[wests]

try opera GX

 

[Aardvarkly]

I have been trying to install Supermium but having no luck. I don't want a load of crapware with the download. Tried the Supermium website but I get an error message code 403, no access to the site. I tried Major Geeks and got the download but my anti-virus didn't like it and put it into quarantine. I can't get it to install. Any other trusted sources I can try?

 

[weenie]

as far as I can tell the choices are (were) ungoogled chromium, thorium, iridium, ironware, and vivaldi. but those are falling apart largely because they are based on chromium which dropped support for Win7 after version 110, and while some of them work, they have occasional problems with websites dealing with sensitive information, such as payments hang and don't get processed, or the website sends a charge of 0.00 to the vendor. some websites refuse access to their services because your browser is outdated for use with their systems. these problems should only get worse.

ungoogled chromium obviously no longer supports Win7. won't work.

vivaldi was very good but the last version to support Win7 was 5.6 and it has the issues mentioned above.

thorium aimed at being the best and fastest to support Win7, but the latest version is 122 which hasn't been updated for 18 months and also has the issues mentioned above. if you want it, releases are at github.com/Alex313031/thorium-legacy/releases and it says somewhere on the website that thorium was based on supermium.

iridium is similar to thorium except the last version available for download was 2022.04.100 (3 years ago) which has the same issues as thorium and vivaldi. they quit releasing stuff you can actually install and only have .gz tarballs you have to compile yourself. good uck with that. softonic had version 2023.09.116 for download but that was for Win8, doesn't work on Win7. home page is at iridiumbrowser.de

SWR Ironware was good, and still available, but the version for Win7 was also from 3 years ago and probably has the same issues. you can get that at srware.net/iron/

supermium seems to be the best choice, compatible with everything from WinXP to Win11, or the only choice if you want something current. they say that updated versions prompted by security issues would be out within a week. compared to the other browsers, it looks the most modern and full-featured. get it at download.win32subsystem.live/supermium/releases/

INSTALLATION PROBLEMS?

except for vivaldi, these chromium-based browsers all work pretty much the same, just the files are slightly rearranged. if there are problems using an installer package, download the .zip instead and rearrange the stuff in a more sensical order.

using the simplest example, iridium comes in a folder called iridium. it has a few files in that, and a folder named after the version (like \2022.04.100.0) which contains all the files that make it work. with the first run it will create another folder called \Dictionaries and a user data folder in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Iridium\User Data\ which has everything like settings, bookmarks, history, downloaded data, etc.

supermium does the same thing but adds a bunch of .dll files in its root folder which apparently provide extra functionality and make it work on older versions of windows.

thorium gets weird because it puts all of what would be in the root folder for iridium or supermium, in a \BIN folder and uses accessory files outside of that. totally unessesary. just delete those and put the contents of the \BIN folder in a \thorium root folder you created.

PORTABLE INSTALLATION

if you want portable installation, create a folder in its root folder (for example \Iridium.2022.04.100.0\Profile\) and create a shortcut in the root folder with a target of

C:\Iridium.2022.04.100.0\iridium.exe --user-data-dir="C:\Iridium.2022.04.100.0\Profile"

and have it start in

C:\Iridium.2022.04.100.0


- must specify path of both .exe AND data folder
- must use full paths for shortcut to work
- cannot change paths or shortcut will quit working
- automatically creates the data folder if not present

now all your user data and settings are in that folder. test the shortcut to make sure it works. as long as you use that shortcut, you can copy the whole root folder to another computer or change the drive letter to use on a USB drive. you can pin the shortcut to your taskbar, start menu, or desktop.

the browser doesn't retain passwords (etc) between computers due to security constraints.

 

[Uitlander]

I have Chrome (crappy). Comodo Dragon (okay). Brave (good). Epic Privacy Browser (limited use). Iridium (good). LibreWolf (crappy). Waterfox (decent). TorBrowser (limited use). Basilisk (good). I'd recommend Basilisk and Brave, but none are great.

I have been using firefox for a while on windows 7 and I was able to block updates through a registry hack but firefox figured it out anyway and kept annoying me about updates and that my firefox would no longer be supported. Now I am getting trouble with websites which require sensitive information(i.e banks, credit card numbers) I am thinking its my version of firefox and I could update to the latest one whatever that is but firefox is worse now and what are your recommendations as a good alternative that will work with mainstream websites.

Nobody replied but I will add a few browsers. First r3dfox is pretty good, its a newer version of firefox slimmed down which is made to work on windows 7. For firefox browsers, there is waterfox, then there is pulse browser and Floorp. Floorp is very interesting because it gives you alot of options to customize how it looks and its made in Japan.

For chrome based browsers, there is sr ironware which is chrome more privacy focused, iridium which is similar and also Thorium browser which is supposedly the fastest browser in the world. I haven't got it to work yet.

 

[Dimitris B]

try opera GX

That's Chromium-Based Chinese spyware.

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I have been using firefox for a while on windows 7 and I was able to block updates through a registry hack but firefox figured it out anyway and kept annoying me about updates and that my firefox would no longer be supported. Now I am getting trouble with websites which require sensitive information(i.e banks, credit card numbers) I am thinking its my version of firefox and I could update to the latest one whatever that is but firefox is worse now and what are your recommendations as a good alternative that will work with mainstream websites.

Nobody replied but I will add a few browsers. First r3dfox is pretty good, its a newer version of firefox slimmed down which is made to work on windows 7. For firefox browsers, there is waterfox, then there is pulse browser and Floorp. Floorp is very interesting because it gives you alot of options to customize how it looks and its made in Japan.

For chrome based browsers, there is sr ironware which is chrome more privacy focused, iridium which is similar and also Thorium browser which is supposedly the fastest browser in the world. I haven't got it to work yet.

What Firefox edition did you use?
You should use ESR-115. This is the latest version of Firefox for Windows 7

 

[joeyc100]

I downloaded and installed Redfox. Problem solved.

 

[Lenovouser72]

R3dFox Eclipse is working good on my old laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.
Updated today to newest version 148.0.2 32bit Portable edition.
On browser idle takes 300 MB RAM, when surfing - about 400 MB,
playing HD videos - about 700 MB.
No complaints with this new version of R3dFox.

Download files on SourceForge - /scroll down/
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