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When comparing Whale vs Basilisk, the Slant community recommends Basilisk for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?” Basilisk is ranked 23rd while Whale is ranked 63rd. The most important reason people chose Basilisk is:
So the source code can be verified.
Specs
Based OnChromium
Browser EngineBlink
LicenseProprietary
Based OnMozilla Firefox
Browser EngineGoanna (Gecko-fork)
LicenseOpenSource (MPL)
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Pros
Pro You have privacy and it's very fast
You have privacy, you are not tracked. And it's very fast, low RAM usage but still very fast. Never crashes, very stable.
Pro Open Source
So the source code can be verified.
Cons
Con Too outdated on Firefox
Con Adblock doesn't work
Con Security risk
Con Limited WebRTC support
Con Licensed under MPL
which one of the more restrictive open source licenses.
Con Uses Goanna
A Gecko fork that is developed by mostly one developer.
Con Only available for Intel based cpu architectures
it is only available for ix86 and amd64.