Could be. But based on viewing its home page, it looks like a (probably very good, very maniacal programmer's) pet project fork of Chromium. Not what I would hang my hat on for production use.
Perhaps, I haven’t checked it out yet. Yt has some videos on it. One by chris titus, which is where i heard about it. He wa s singing its praises. Butmyeah I gotta see what others are saying before I make any decision to try it.
I forgot to mention, there is also waterfox- very similar to Firefox, but again 8 have no knowledge of it other than looking at it briefly awhile back- not sure why I didn’t try it. I think I went with brave back then instead .
“Could be. But based on viewing its home page, it looks like a (probably very good, very maniacal programmer’s) pet project fork of Chromium. Not what I would hang my hat on for production use.”
I did too Bob. The first thing I noticed is he admits it is just himself and two others maintaining it when they have time. And he gives fair warning that this means they may not be able to stay right on top of security patches for vulnerabilities. I like the honesty he shares but while he brags about the speed I honestly could not find any mention about better security than other browsers, or I missed it.
The whole problem with browsers is that someone needs to reinvent the wheel. A whole new base core “framework” that is not compromised from the beginning to compete against Chromium, Electron, and Gecko. All the base frameworks utilized to spin off a new browser are still based on Google and Mozilla in their cores. And that is a problem, Google and Mozilla are still there and there is always that looming nagging question mark because there is still Google and Mozilla code in them all. It is no small task to build a browser core framework but it is time for it, it is long overdue.
One can even build their own browser. The problem is finding a truly independent base core framework that is absolutely secure without question to build on top of.
https://www.meetsidekick.com/how-to-make-a-web-browser/
And thanks for the info about thorium- I won’t bother looking at them further then- sounds like it might be not very secure.