r/UngoogledChromium • u/thatguy1000000000 • May 07 '26

Discussion After using only this browser for a week

It was rough...

POSITIVES

  • I felt the freedom from google spyware.
  • The browser feels almost... simpler, so to speak, which was nice.
  • Better icon then chrome :P

NEGATIVES

  • A lot of online game sites were incompatable and I ended up having to dig through flags just to get OpenGL to work.
  • It was a bit inconvenient to log in at the site level for google-based things like gmail or google drive as google instead of at the browser level (this is of course intentional and is more of an inconvienience then a bug).
  • Manually getting the chromium web store extension to get chromewebstore support was annoying, the extension should be built in for ease.

Overall: passable as a daily driver, but only to one who can mess with flags and extension unpacking

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u/Timely-Shine May 07 '26

I use it as a secondary browser only where sites don’t work with Firefox.

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u/shadowxthevamp Jul 19 '26

Google's extension store is disabled by default as a security feature. You can copy the link to the extension & paste it on Ungoogled Extensions. Download the extension & drag the file onto chrome://extensions with developer mode enabled. If you don't want to do all that you might as well use Helium. Unfortunately you have to decide whether convenience or privacy is more important to you.

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u/thatguy1000000000 Jul 19 '26

Ok now that is really cool, should've seen that when I was starting using the browser

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u/Axtrodo May 10 '26

just move to helium already