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Anyone have experience with Iridium Browser?
I know that it's a browser with security in mind and focuses on removing google's data gathering, but how functional is it as an everyday browser?
I read that it has a lot of issues with videos and sounds due to the lack of codecs ? Furthermore, if you use gmail or any services that require Google sign-in; the lack of Google API key will render you unable to utilize such services? So no gmail either? :(
Does anyone have experience with Iridium by any chance? How has your experience been with the browser and what kind of nuances are you encountering?
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Long term firefox-esr user, recently switched over to iridium a couple of weeks back. Seems to work great for me for running google docs (spreadsheets etc.), quicker than firefox, can't say for google mail though as I don't have a google mail account. Generally works well, but on yahoo news and yahoo finance I do get somewhat regular Aw Snap ... reload. Also some of the vids on those pages link to dead pages ... so I'm guessing that the Aw Snaps are part of Pledge kicking in ... protective.
Also use it as my video player (local mp4's/mp3's etc.) and it works better than firefox-esr (that doesn't independently support mp4's). The video position slider also works better under iridium.
Noted Theo's comments also https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152872551609819&w=2
OpenBSD --stable (--release + openup) installed to bare metal (Phenom x4 AMD using onboard Radeon ATI. 2GB ram). cwm. OpenBSD base + iridium + ddclient via pkg_add.
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thank you very much for the reply.
what email provider do you use? is protonmail still considered the best alternative (especially when privacy is of a concern) ?
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I'm using iridium on a daily basis, including for gmail (Google Apps really, but it's pbbly the same). I haven't noticed any issues except that iridium updates show up after chromium ones.
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I don't have experience with Iridium, but question some of the issues you bring up:
Do you depend on those codecs for functionality? It is more of a "what do you want from your browser" question than the capability of Iridium. Right tool for the job.
I am not sure requiring Google api keys for Gmail is entirely accurate either.
I'll try out Iridium, did not know it existed till you pointed out. Thanks for that! :-)
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I think you've been misinformed. I've used Iridium for many months and it's generally as viable as main browser as Firefox or Chromium. In my experience, each of them got their own issues with the occasional page, or with opening too many pages at once. But I haven't seen any of the issues that you listed. I personally keep all of the 3 big browsers around so that I can try a different browser if something doesn't work.
The main drawback to Iridium is in my eyes that all addons have to be updated manually. If you don't use any, you should be fine. If you use a few, you may want to keep track of when they update upstream and then do that manually. If you use a lot of addons, you might be better off with Firefox or Chromium. Best if you install it and see for yourself...
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