When comparing Polarity Browser 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 Polarity Browser is ranked 28th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast and lightweight
According to their own tests Polarity takes up more than 10x less memory than IE, FF or Chrome.
Pro Multi-session browsing with Parallel Sessions
Parallel Sessions allows users to browse the web with different profiles with separate cache, cookies, and history. This enables users to login to multiple accounts to different websites like Facebook.
Pro Built-in privacy features
Polarity browser comes with ad block and Do Not Track built in.
Pro Customizable UI
It allows you to customize many things from window color, tab color and text color to window transparency and border size. You can set Background image or use Shuffle from Bing. You can also save the theme, import and export it.
Pro Custom Developer tools
Polarity comes with the standard Inspector for Blink based browsers along with its custom client that works with both Trident and Blink.
Pro Great HTML5 support
Polarity scores 512/555 on the HTML5 test. It is just a couple of points shy of Google Chrome.
Pro No telemetry
Pro Free software
100% Open Source and Libre.
Pro Amazing UI
Very clean and slick UI.
Cons
Con Few annoyances left unchecked
The browser has a couple of bugs such as where extensions are not actually ran after installation despite a notification stating that they are.
Con Windows and Android only
No Linux, OSX or iOS version available.
Con Unstable and frequent crashes
Though the browser is really lightweight and lightning fast, it crashes many times and is clearly unstable.
Con Uninstallation problems
Polarity browser can only be uninstalled with a built-in deinstallation tool. This is very impractical.
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.