When comparing Waterfox vs Ungoogled Chromium, the Slant community recommends Ungoogled Chromium for most people. In the question“What are the best web browsers for Windows?” Ungoogled Chromium is ranked 20th while Waterfox is ranked 22nd.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast
Even faster than firefox.
Pro Offers excellent privacy
Does not phone home.
Pro Never ever freezes
Highly reliable.
Pro Works with Firefox addons
Firefox 56 add-ons compatibility, including unsigned XUL extensions and complete themes.
Pro Less bloated than Firefox
Pocket, telemetry, data collection, startup profiling is removed.
Pro Extremely customizable
It has almost every setting imaginable.
Pro Multiple add-on support
Pro Works with major streaming services
Includes widevine plugin and suitable user agent for viewing major streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video.
Pro No telemetry
Pro Free software
100% Open Source and Libre.
Pro Amazing UI
Very clean and slick UI.
Cons
Con Lag, lag, lag, freeze, freeze, freeze
Need to do something about it.
Con Owned by an advertising company
The same company that bought Startpage/ Ixquick, System 1. This is a company that gathers information about what you look at and do, analyzes and profiles you, and then sells it off to third parties.
Con Goodish, but still bad
Removes crap from FF, but doesn't offer anything you can't already do in FF. Also, doesn't help they are owned by an ad tech, System1.
Con Few independent devs fighting the good fight
Although their work is to be fully commended, it can not be ignored that the devs of ungoogled Chromium are doing a massive task, and TBH waste their time while doing it. They're up against mega corp Google, reversing all the questionable stuff Google puts in Chrome to make them money. So David and Goliath, or a few devs in their spare time against "CyberDyne" if you will. So continuity might be an issue with ungoogled Chromium. Will it be up-to-date? Will it survive to see another day? Will the devs loose interest? The answer will most likely depend on your (previous) experience and scepticism.
Con Sometimes outdated
Con Still contains telementery
Default home page is telementery, and most websites are enabled by google.
Con Some websites think it is Chrome 80
As of today, many sites, like login.iready.com , might mislabel the browser as chrome.
Con Uses blink V8 turbo
It a old blink fork that is made up by nicwow.
Con Chrome clone
Ungoogled Chromium is a clone of Chrome, and since clone browsers are behind in updates giving a huge security risk, browsers like Tuga browser and Ungoogled Chromium should be avoided.
Con Uses a fake browser engine
Con Looks proprietary
Ungoogled Chromium is not that open source, but it might be closed source for windows 8.1 and below.
Con Difficult to install
Con Mostly just a customized Chromium build
Not much new here as many of chromiums features can be enabled or turned off with build flags.
Con Dependent on Google
Does not free you from big corpo.