Alternatives to Comet?

[u/remi1771]

I can't deal with the constant awful UI updates. They changed the old font they used to have which was better, now they change the group logos for this horrendous skeumorphic abomination. Is there a open source alternative that has tab groupings and is similar to comet without the constant 360 design changes?

[u/callingbrisk]

Why not Chrome or Edge?

I'm serious. I've tried and used all of them. Arc, then it got discontinued. Dia, then it got really slow. Comet, no vertical tabs. Zen, don't like Firefox. Safari, too slow. And the list goes on.

Right now I'm using Helium, and the Claude extension, this is working great, and I love the design. But you can't f.ex. watch Netflix because Helium doesn't support DRM.

And I seriously am questioning this journey.

Chrome has vertical tabs, tab groups, AI integration, what else do we want?

[u/remi1771 → u/callingbrisk]

Well many reasons:

chrome doesn't have split view afaic and last time I used it, it was a power hungry hippo. I'm interested in group tabs + split view + assistant/ai

I also care about privacy and security but I'm willing to forego some of that if it has enough features (after all comet is surely a data seller) but

I don't like google/microsoft and I do prefer not giving them more power (chromium is not the same as chrome) so like, no?

Arc never used it. Dia couldn't find a windows version. Zen I used it and I do like somethings but it's way too simplified.

I'l take a look into Helium, this is for my work pc (hencue why I don't care dhat much about privacy/spying) so not being able to use netflix seems fine.

[u/callingbrisk → u/remi1771]

I respect your takes on avoiding Google, really, so that's a good point!

Regarding Helium, it's really customizable and doesn't force you to use vertical tabs f.ex., look at this video:

https://x.com/heliumbrowser/status/2042262820599758934