Browsers from Russian IT companies: an unbiased review attempt
How to make a person use his own services: search, maps, mail? .. We all know, most people never change the default program settings - they can't or don’t want to bother and the browser is no exception, so set your search as a priority (with the knowledge of or without it) often means to get another unsuspecting soul into your I have never used a single Chromium assembly except Chrome itself and the new Opera, but I recently discerned curiosity: what can be done there and should I pay attention to it or is it just a continuation of the glorious work of Denis Popov? Said and done, I rummaged through the Web and selected participants for review. I considered only Russian assemblies and only from large web service providers, because otherwise, I would not have enough for my review and life.
Interesting? Then let's get started.
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Under the cut a lot of screenshots, the total amount of ~ 3 mb.
Today in the program:
I installed all tested assemblies on a clean Windows 7 Home Basic x86, in VirtualBox, with default settings. I did not consider other platforms for a banal reason: almost all survey participants exist only for the desktop and only for Windows.
So, number one is QIP's Surf browser.
QIP Surf is a free web browsing application. A convenient and simple browser will make your work on the Internet safe and secure.Well, let's see. Download the installation file, run, and
The installer tried to download Adobe Flash 11 (!), But it did not work. Well, it does not matter, we will live without flash. After clicking the "Cancel" button, the browser is safely installed, we look further. The QIP Surf interface looks like this:
Chrome, like chrome, nothing special. Just to the right of the address bar are a few icons of the preset extensions. The list of extensions themselves is as follows:
Click "More extensions", go to the Google Chrome extension store and there ...
Unpleasant By the way, what version of the product do we have? We look at the window "About the program":
User-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.14.1453.94 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.76 Safari/537.36 On other features: the browser in a freshly installed form takes 98 MB, the default search is qip search. To the credit of the developers, I didn’t try to push the build, except for Flash, didn’t get into autoloading and didn’t get into the default browser without demand - a rarity in our alarming times. In addition, I did not come across software that I would try to install along with Surf, including the QIP IM client (maybe I was just looking bad), it seems to me that the chance that this browser gets on the PC to the average housewife is minimal, and this is good, given the engine is not the first freshness, the vulnerability of which no one is going to close.
The next in turn is our browser Uran
Uran browser has several advantages compared with other browsers. Install our browser and see for yourself!
We all know the platform for the free creation and hosting of Ucoz sites, many people have negative emotions towards it, but this is not a conversation now. If you go to any site hosted on Ucoz and not using a paid hosting rate, we will see ads in its right corner (AdBlock users pass by) and a button offering to disable this advertisement. If you click on it, we will see the following window:
The browser is installed without problems, it looks like this:
Here the differences from Chrome are even smaller. About the "browser without ads" is true only in part - it is not only on Ucoz sites, but nothing prevents you from installing AdBlock, since the version of the engine allows. By the way, this is the only reviewer in question today who openly calls himself “Chromium assembly” - the rest bashfully hide this information in the “About the program” window. By the way, here it is:
User-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36 u01-04 Already better, although Chromium, too, "with a dandy," dates back to May 2014. Pre-installed extensions:
More extensions can be installed from the online store Google Chrome. About other features: like the previous browser in question, Uran does not try to drag the left software with it, does not create unnecessary shortcuts, and only “uCozMedia UranUpdate” puts it into autoload, but sets itself as the default browser without demand - it’s ugly, I don’t like it when are doing. Search default: Yandex, occupied space after installation: 359 mb.
This browser has a narrow niche, it was created for people working with the Ucoz platform, and surely it is claimed by them
Next we have - Rambler browser, he's Nichrome
A convenient browser for those who want to always be aware of what is happening in the country and the world, do not miss the latest news and keep your favorite services on handI did not find the name “Nichrome” anywhere, although I had heard it exactly before. Perhaps Rambler refused this name (although it remained in the UA). It is installed without problems, we look at the appearance:
Here, unlike the previous browsers, at least have drawn a new theme, similar to the design of the site Rambler.ru. There are also “Recommendations”, as in the new Opera, which, as it turned out, are added by the Rambler-Monitor extension (it is present in the Google Chrome store, you can install it in any other Chromium assembly). All pre-installed extensions:
New extensions are installed without problems from the Google store. Browser Version:
User-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.111 Safari/537.36 Nichrome/self/38 - the version of Chromium from October 2014, Google Chrome lags behind by three major releases - so far the best result. Like Uran, without asking the user, sets itself as the default browser, it places the application with the poker name “Holdem” into autoload, which is an automatic update tool. Superfluous software (except for Adobe Flash 13) and does not create labels. Every time I single out this moment because I wrote an article under the impression of this study , and expected that my poor virtual machine would be littered with a bunch of rubbish, but the first three browsers under consideration pleasantly surprised me. Immediately after installation Nichrom takes 163 mb. Benefits? I do not know, three extensions that are present in this assembly can be installed in Chrome, but if it exists and develops, does it mean that someone needs it? Let's leave the Rambler browser alone and move on to a more interesting object.Fourth in line - the famous Amigo from Mail.ru
Here I can hear the plaintive crash of mice and armrests of armchairs, compressed by hands of enikeyschik, admins and other “tyzhprogramists” reading this article - this browser earned fame louder than all the others combined! How many times have I personally cleaned it from the cars of my friends and acquaintances I can’t be counted, deliberately installing it for the first time Here is what they write about it on the download page:
Browser with social networksThe description is rather scanty, download (oh, horror, I download Amigo!), Install, (your mother, I install Amigo !!!) and ...
Damn, where it came from, in the installer there were no checkmarks! We take a closer look at the download page, and of course:
It seems he considered himself beaten-broken, but overlooked! Well, it's my own fault, with the programs from Mail.ru, you need to keep your ears open. Look at the look of the browser:
The changes are more noticeable than the previous browsers in question, even the main menu button was redrawn and moved, providing the proud signature “Amigo”. Strangely enough, there are no pre-installed extensions; all additional features are built at a deeper level, like Opera and Vivaldi, for example. When I clicked on the letter icon, I thought that the browser had a built-in mail client and was delighted in advance, but when I logged in through the Yandex-mail account, it turned out that he only redirects to https://e.mail.ru / , and you can access it from any browser. As the developers promised, social networking clients are built into Amigo:
There is nothing to describe, they are present, and that’s all. Maybe someone finds it convenient, probably for housewives for whom the browser was created, this is a plus. There is also a music player from the social. networks. Other features: no matter how much I searched, I couldn’t find how to change the default search - it’s naturally there from mail.ru - even if you go to the
Moreover, the labels of VK and Odnoklassniki are also petty: they are not labels of urls, but labels on Amigo with these addresses, i.e. even if the system has a different browser by default, these shortcuts will open through Amigo. We look at autoload:
Very well, Amigo also wrote himself down there, why - it is not entirely clear, it is possible to speed up the launch or monitoring of social services. networks, but you could warn about this? Even in the settings there is no mention of this! When I sat down for this article, I tried to be unbiased, but this behavior just kills me! See the version of the program:
User-agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1709.125 Amigo/32.0.1709.125 MRCHROME SOC Safari/537.36 The version of Chromium from January 2014, foul for more than a year - haven't they been updated for so long? And at the beginning of the review, I noted that the biggest work was done on this browser. Apparently a long time ago and so well that you do not need to update. In a freshly installed form, the program takes 390 mb.A brief result: this browser honestly deserves all the self-hatred, it spreads literally with every free software that you can download now from the Web, it shoves its labels to where it is not at all, almost there was no case when I looked at a computer that “ It is slowing down, ”and this comrade would not have been there. The only thing that is good is that I did not find Guard'a mail.ru (or whatever it is called there) and the “Sputnik mail.ru” who were loyal companions of the products from this developer. I do not know what caused it, but they are not, and that is good.
I wondered for a long time whether the “Internet” browser from Mail.ru was included in the review, a cursory google did not show that it was removed from support, and it is still available for download , but on the download page and in the “Internet” there are copyrights 2013 , Chromium is inside version 28 of it, so I decided that no one needed him anymore, and did not consider him, forgive me lazy.
And finally - Yandex Browser
Convenient and fast program to work on the Internet
I will not mention the humorous name of this browser, given to it because of its logo, because once it cost me you-know-what, when I started arguing about it in the comments to some topic. And my opponent lost even more, so no, you will see here only the official name. Download, install, look appearance:
It is immediately evident that a lot of work was done on the appearance, it’s completely unlike the original Chromium. See the version of the program:
Stock User-agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 YaBrowser/15.2.2214.3645 Safari/537.36 I will tell you a secret, I started writing a review, the version was Chrome / 38.0.2125.122 YaBrowser / 12/14/2,225,10034, and just before publishing the browser was updated - well done developers, almost keep up with Opera, only one version behind Google Chrome, with than Chrome itself was updated to it only last week. See installed extensions:
Wow! It's good that they are all turned off, otherwise I would have cursed loudly. But once disabled, okay, let them be. Moreover, if you go along the standard chrome path : chrome: // extensions / , we will see only one extension:
There will also be all new extensions installed from the store. In the main window, shown in the screenshot above, they also appear in the “From other sources” group. For me, it was a real surprise that the extension store here is not the Chrome catalog, but the Opera is an unexpected decision for me. But if you go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=en , we’ll go to the Chrome extensions directory and from there they are installed without any problems (for reference, you need to install the “Download Chrome Extension "to repeat this trick). Next, we look that Ya.B has brought with him to the system: it turned out, only a label on yandex.ru. Rather, a shortcut to an executable that opens yandex.ru using Yandex.Browser, even if it is not installed, as the default browser is a strange solution, and no less vile than the ones from Mail.ru. In autoload — nothing, in “Programs and components” —but the browser itself, no “elements” and “browser managers” —thanks for that, I did not expect. Other features: freshly installed application takes 397 MB. There is a “turbo” mode, as in Opera,
Personally, I still like it more when there are screenshots of pages, but this is not a fan's business, it’s not for me to judge other people's tastes. Plus, they also worked on the address bar itself, added copying and sharing functions for urls. The address there is displayed by default in the format “Domain Header” (for example, on the page http://soft.yandex.ru/?from=prov_all there will be “soft.yandex.ru Yandex.Programs”). This approach is disgusting to me, I always prefer to see where I am, but it’s probably better for housewives, I don’t presume to judge, the main thing is that you can turn on a normal url, rummaging through the settings. Another “smart line” has such a feature: you can write “Habrahabr” in it and it will send us directly to habrahabr.ru - that is, the analogue of Google “I'm lucky” (which now without turning off the “live search” and not to use it at all) -he), there are still small buns, such as quick links, etc. - in general, a lot of work has been done with the omnibox, we must pay tribute. I amused one moment: when I downloaded Yandex.Browser through Yandex.Browser, I saw:
Surely all downloaded executables are marked this way, but agree that it looks funny.
Brief summary: Yandeks.Browser, as Amigo strives to get into the system to an inattentive user in the appendage to a huge number of free programs - and this is bad. But if you temporarily close your eyes to his aggressive “sniffing” and just look at him, you can see that serious work has been done on the browser, not limited to replacing the label and pre-installing a pair of extensions, it can be considered an independent browser, though based on someone else's engine .
Instead of conclusion
I installed each of the browsers reviewed for the first time. I’ve seen some of them before, but never tried to use them, so all that is written here is a first impression. I didn’t touch on such important concepts as the speed of work and the quality of the display of pages - they are all at a decent level, but thank you for this “dad” Chromium. If I missed an important point or responded unfairly to someone, I was waiting for comments with clarifications, intentionally to hide something or to offend someone.
Well, who is cooler, I suggest to choose the Community: the survey is attached.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/252219/
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