Protonmail is great, why not making a Proton Web Browser?
I'm sure our security on line would increase a 100% with a Proton Browser to get rid of safari, opera, firefox, etc. If you make one we'll be total and complete.
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Anonymous
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I absolutely do not want this, the last thing everyone needs is another web browser wrapped around a Chromium engine. I agree with the majority of the comments that mention how wasteful this would be with Proton resources.
Firefox is an excellent open-source browser that already focuses on privacy.
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M
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Just use brave or Firefox. Both can be customized to be very private. This would be a waste of ProtonMails time.
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Anonymous
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I would like to downvote this feature. It would be a huge amount of work and it'll never have all the features that everyone wants in a web browser, and as others have noted, there are already other browsers that implement privacy features. Why are you asking Protonmail to duplicate that work?
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Fábio
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I disagree. If you want to solve everything you end up solving nothing. Proton should focus on what they do great: creating privacy-centric alternatives to Google services, like Mail, Contacts, Calendar, etc
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Keith Styles
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Agree with dan, John & others. Brave does it all. It's also designed & supported by engineers.
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dan
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totally useless, there is already Brave Browser(+Brave Search)
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Great Afoofum
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TL;DR: What John, Logan and Tyson wrote.
Considering that the Web portal currently includes WebGL and either Audio Context or Canvas fingerprinting code (which defeats the purpose of having anonymous private email), I'd far prefer to access it using Brave or Firefox in Strict mode and armed to the teeth with security and privacy plugins than risk using a custom browser that potentially doesn't support them and/or isn't open source. Even then, I'm not happy with the current state of affairs.
For the same reason, I'm not using the bridge, which uses Electron (a technology created by Google). Change the bridge to remove Electron and switch to Qt or GTK+ (even if you have to provide different binaries for different OSs or write it in Python/Cython with PySide and write installation instructions; Christophe Gohlke's unofficial wheels for Windows [not that anyone who's privacy/security-concious uses that, of course; unencrypted OSs are so last decade] are a breeze to install) and I'll be happy. Hell; give me access to the source code and *I'll* have a stab at doing that. (I have over ten years' dev experience. It shouldn't be too hard, even though I currently don't know C/C++.)
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[Deleted User]
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That's great
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Logan
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Hell no. These already exist. Proton needs to focus on their partially-complete products first.
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Tyson
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I would recommend Brave browser. I think it already has most if not all of the privacy features you'd expect.
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John
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There are already privacy-focused browsers out there, you don't seem to understand the amount of efforts required to maintain a web browser
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salima
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yes, a proton browser! compatible with linux, of course...currently i use vivaldi, but i would prefer proton
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pnobulls
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https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/42022207-proton-browser
their could be more here is some of the better Thoughts about one.
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pnobulls
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It has been suggestion, Yes it would be super Nice,
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Matthew
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Yeah, That is a great idea!