And in the world of technology, not everything is going to be Google or Microsoft, there are many other developers. That is why in these same lines we are going to talk about some of these alternative proposals to Chrome without Chromium. Therefore it should be noted that these use other rendering engines, user interfaces, and general mode of operation. Turning off auto-updates is also a needed feature on metered/limited cellular or satellite internet connections.In this way, in the current times we can take advantage of other proposals but totally alien to this project. What I want to avoid is an always-running background daemon doing who-knows-what to my system, like Chrome's keystone updater does. It's ok if the browser 'checks for updates' on launch (in a manner similar to the Sparkle framework).

New Update Experience for Mac available in Edge Beta.

Can I disable the (intrusive) Microsoft AutoUpdate in Edge?.

Edge seems to install a Microsoft AutoUpdate background daemon similar to Chrome's.

Add a 'Disable autoupdate' feature (disable updates).

The option to turn ON / OFF Automatic Updates.

Based on the devs' responses it seems antithetical to their app. Brave has a still-open issue requesting this from 2019.I would like to avoid installing vanilla Google Chrome due to the 'Chrome is Bad' issue and the keystone background daemon process aggressively using CPU and memory even when Chrome is closed. However, many websites are designed for Chrome/Chromium and it would be good to have a standalone browser available for such cases. On my new M1 system I've decided to switch to the desktop Safari browser for battery, privacy, and security reasons.

Which browsers use chromium