I came from Lynx -> ie (couple of months) -> Netscape (several years) -> Opera (few years) -> Firefox (last >20y)
I'm also not really fully satisfied with Firefox. The list why would be long.
Firefox is one of the programs I try not to update as long as possible. (Which new-version-frequency are they at the moment btw? A new version every twelve minutes?
There is nothing they may add I wish for, but only high chances that something is worsened or at least my settings are gone - again (I
hate that!)
I tried Vivaldi a while, but was also not satisfied.
It's the same I see in several Linux distries: They copy what the knew, and try to make it better.
That's wrong by the idea. There is no need to copy something that's rubbish from the start.
As the world needs no 5th Windows-clone nobody actually needs the 7th ie-clone.
Think it new from the very start!
That would be my advice.
Major point in my eyes:
You may get a buttload of add ons and crap you may
add.
But the things I want to have modular, especially to
remove them, are built in fixed. Hardly to impossible to change.
Gimme a list of features a software has, and a red marker: You'll be amazed nothing much stay left:
"Don't need this, don't need that, don't want this, must not have that, useless, don't need it, let me alone with that, does this have any useful purpose .... drop, drop, drop, drop... gone, gone, gone...."
Maybe that's modular thing one may define as unix as an adjective, correspodending to unix philosophie.
And my personal philosophy can be fulfilled by Unix-Philosophy:
Only add thing you really need and use.
Or as Einstein put it: As simple as possible, as complex as necassary.
Or as I would say: Instead of drowning an already trashed system with more and more useless crap get ridd off the rubbish!
I checked out, there is a very long list of Webbrowsers, and it's getting bigger.
We are not the only ones dissatisfied.
So
maybe a thread would be useful, to list and discuss
which browsers there are, /natively running under FreeBSD, of course, what features ("has an adress bar and speed dials by default"), no-features ("does not include automatic searches in adrees bar", "excludes google"... ) ...