When I try to type in an url up top or try to type anything into google's search (my home page) it changes the url area to search google: and only takes one letter.

WTF? I think W11 had an update and after this problem I went and updated Chrome but no change. Help!

Hi r/browsers, this is what you'll see in the video: I start typing a personal question into ChatGPT. Before anything is sent, the extension notices it's personal and offers "Ask Melo". One click and the question moves to Chrome's side panel, where Melo answers it with the AI that's built into Chrome (Gemini Nano, through the Prompt API). The answer is made on your own computer, and ChatGPT never gets the question.

A few things browser people might care about:

- The extension itself makes no network calls. Every build runs a test that fails if any file opens a connection of its own.

- The "is this personal?" check runs locally: a word list in five languages, plus Chrome's on-device model as a second opinion.

- It only works where Chrome's built-in AI can run (Chrome needs a GPU with more than 4 GB of VRAM or 16 GB of RAM, and 22 GB free space). On other computers it offers the site's temporary chat instead.

- Edge and Firefox don't have an equivalent on-device API I can use yet, so there it's the temporary chat only.

- Free, open source (AGPL), no account.

Honest limit: Gemini Nano is small. It's fine for talking a personal question through, not for writing your thesis, you can still use chatgpt, but when you have a personal question. Melo will help you to keep your data private.

Curious what you think, especially from Edge and Firefox users: would you want this, and what would you need to trust it?

https://kamelo.eu

Hey everyone!

I'm using Microsoft Edge on Windows, and there's one thing that's been bugging me.

When I search for something on Bing, I get the usual tabs like All, AI Mode, Images, Videos, Maps, and News. The problem is that when I click AI Mode, it opens Microsoft's AI instead of Google Gemini, which I'd rather use.

Is there any way to change that button so it opens Gemini instead? Maybe through an Edge extension, a redirect, or some other workaround?

I know I can just open Gemini in another tab or switch my default search engine, but I'd prefer to keep my usual workflow without having to do that every time.

And yes, I'm a Windows user asking how to replace a Microsoft feature with a Google product. I know how that sounds. 😂

Has anyone found a way to make this work?

Siempre he utilizado navegadores como Edge, Brave, pero en las Ultimas semanas me está saliendo un navegador llamado "zen", entiendo que está basado en Firefox, lo llegue a utilizar pero se ponía lento con el tiempo (utilizo Windows) por lo que busque alternativas y llegue a Brave, ¿consideran que es un gran salto cambiar a Zen?

En temas de rendimiento es ¿menos o más pesado que Brave?

El uso es poco exigente, a lo mucho máximo 10 pestañas abiertas en un día fuera de lo común.

Which is better to log in to your social networks, to behave efficiently.

Is there a website that will allow me to select several browsers and compare their features at a line-by-line level with a focus on privacy and security? I'm not looking for browser recommendations. I'm looking for tools that will let me compare browsers, not just today, but again and again so I can stay on top of how they fair.

I wanted a clean and modern browser and I found Zen, it looks clean and good but is it just me or is it actually slower than brave or any other chromium based browsers ?

Something I couldn't find in any browser: select a handful of tabs and print them as one job, in order, without doing Ctrl+P on each one. I needed it for work (lots of health insurance pages for the same case), so I built an extension and it's now on both stores.

How it works: select tabs → right-click → Print Selected Tabs → one combined preview → print once or download one PDF. Text stays real text (no screenshots), and nothing leaves your computer.

• Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okonaodgfeifdkflmiadboahipigfmmm
• Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multitab-print-print-all-tabs/

Happy to answer questions about how it handles tricky pages.

I'm pretty sure all of you have dealt with the fake buffering on YT when using uBlock Origin and I assumed that there was no way to prevent it. Well, turns out AdGuard is way better. It loads videos instantaneously every single time. I tested this on both Chromium and Firefox, both MV3 and MV2. In every situation AdGuard loaded videos instantly while uBO fell victim to the fake buffering. Just wanted to point this out in case people were interested.

So i currently use opera air i dont have any problem with it but i been using it for a while so i need a chromium browser

Firefox and Brave users are always fighting in Youtube comment sections on videos related to browsers and Reddit posts in this subreddit, it's not that serious, people can use what browser they like, both sides need to chill out.

Hey r/browsers — I've been building extensions for Chrome and just finished porting both to Firefox. Curious what Firefox users think, since I know this crowd cares about things like privacy and performance more than most.

Obsidian Citation Capture — one click turns a journal page into an Obsidian note with the full citation, abstract, and PDF link. For researchers who live in Obsidian.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/obsidian-citation-capture/

DevTools Full-Spectrum Assistant — a DevTools panel that audits pages for form issues, accessibility problems, and runtime errors, then suggests fixes and re-scans to prove they worked.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/devtools-full-spectrum-asst/

Both are free to try. I'm the solo dev, so honest feedback (especially "this is broken") is genuinely useful.

Hey everyone, I use Helium as my daily browser. Lately I've been seeing posts about Helium acting up with slow page loads, and the same thing happened to me. At first I told myself it was fine, but it got to the point where every refresh took 10 to 20 seconds. As a mod I'm constantly jumping between modmail, notifications, and comments, so that delay was driving me insane.

Out of frustration I switched my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Kagi. The first load was almost instant, pages opened smoothly. Then I switched again to Bing, and honestly? Pages are loading great now, and even media loads way better.

So my question is: is it actually possible that the default search engine can slow down page loading in Helium? Or am I just tripping? 😭 I'm not tech savvy at all, I don't really understand how speed and all that works, but this trick genuinely worked for me.

I also wanted to ask: is Bing a good search engine privacy-wise? Since I'm using it now, I figured I'd check. I love Helium and don't want to switch browsers, I just want to understand what's going on.

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is a dumb question lol.

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A while ago I shared MRU Tab Switcher, an extension I built with Claude’s help to get Brave’s Ctrl+Tab behaviour back after moving to a Chromium browser. Thanks for the feedback! Version 1.1.0 is out:

• Ctrl+Shift+Tab goes the other way through your recent tabs. Pressed on its own, it jumps to the tab you used least recently.
• Brave-style history: every tab you land on while cycling counts as recently used, same as Brave.
• Settings page (right-click the icon → Options): how long a pause ends a cycle (0.3–1.5 s), Brave-style history on/off, and cycling the current window or all windows.
• Much easier Ctrl+Tab setup: a welcome page opens after install with a “Copy setup code” button, so you just paste it on the shortcuts page. Chrome still doesn’t let extensions take Ctrl+Tab by themselves, so that one-time paste is still needed.
• The icon goes grey when it’s off, and the right-click menu has shortcuts, Ctrl+Tab setup and help.

Still no page access, no tracking and no data collected. Free and open source.

Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ffkjkhogdepleegfoakgihhmcfekdnoa
Code: https://github.com/Hariprasad-b-s/mru-extension

If you already have it, Chrome updates it automatically. To get Ctrl+Shift+Tab, rerun the setup code from the settings page. Feedback and bug reports welcome!

First post Link - https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/1wxfm54/mru_tab_switcher_smooth_like_brave_browser/

NOTE: This is meant as a non-judgmental open forum post, so take your negativity and shove it if you're planning to shit on people for their choices.

I use Trivalent on my main Fedora build. But if Trivalent didn't exist and I was aiming for a secure alternative that I can trust will be maintained for years to come... hmm, genuinely, it just comes down to the big corporate browsers. I am skeptical of the claims of many big "privacy browsers", all I care about is that it loads the stuff and has protections against big exploits. So for me that leaves me with a few choices: Chrome, Edge, and Brave. I'd have to debloat all with policies to get them near what Trivalent has, but for me the biggest focus is on update pace, so it would probably just be Chrome with some flags altered and integrations disabled via policy (mainly the Gemini stuff).

What would you guys move to if tomorrow your daily driver browser died?

I have a question to people who owns it. How is Brave Origin? Is it worth buying?

Pros and cons, please and thank you.

With my very limited software knowledge, i ask those who have slightly more software knowledge, and ask why the fuck is there no browser that is fast like alot of chromium based browsers (helium, vivaldi etc) with the UI & features that zen has. I love zen, however it uses way too much resources, and I do love firefox but im pretty sure chromium is faster anyway.

What I'm trying to say is, is there any browser with the UI and features of Zen (no compromise bullshit) but with the speed of literally any other browser, and obviously private.

Hey everyone

I've been testing YouTube performance in DaliNira which is an open source Linux browser I'm developing

These tests were done using the currently installed AUR version with the Chromium engine and built in ad blocking enabled

Here's what I observed during actual YouTube playback

• One video was using around 339 MB RAM with 10% CPU usage
• Another video initially reached 610 MB RAM with 37% CPU usage
• After a few minutes of watching the same video memory dropped to 210 MB with 22% CPU usage
• During some video switches I've also seen memory usage reach around 1.5 GB

The measurements come from the browser's tab performance panel and do not necessarily represent total browser memory usage

Videos play normally with ad blocking enabled

What I find interesting is that memory usage can be relatively high during the first few minutes before dropping significantly without reloading the page

I'm still working on improving performance and investigating these fluctuations

Have you noticed similar behavior in Brave Chrome Firefox or other browsers

Does this look like normal Chromium memory management or something worth investigating further

I'd appreciate your technical feedback

Hey,

I'm a huge fan of Firefox.

In my work laptop, I used Edge most of the time and on the edge if I wanted to open netsuite, all I needed was to type "net" and one enter and it'd open it. Even for other sites, if I would have typed "vitune" it would open github.com/vitune automatically because I've been a frequent visitor.

But in Firefox that does not work. If I type vitune, in the url suggestion it will be shown, but I need to either use the mouse to click it or arrow keys to navigate. I believe I'm missing some settings here.

Does anyone know how I can enable that feature in Firefox/waterfox?

I have not used any ai, and I'm trying to fix my english. If there're any mistakes in grammar or sentence formation, I'm sorry brothers :)

I've been using Google and Chrome for the last 5 Years, and now I'm thinking of switching Browsers. However I can't decide which one to switch to... Can y'all help me decide?

yea so um is this any good. 😹😹

I love brave’s privacy but It’s bloated, I love zen’s features,look but It’s slow, I love helium’s lightweight and fastness but customization is limited with chromium