what web browser do you use and why?
what web browser do you use and why?
I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me
Firefox because it's one of the last browsers against the Chromium monopoly.
Also UBlock Origin is wayy better on Firefox, even before Google forced their version of Manifest v3 on all Chromium based browsers.
Firefox, and ill continue to use it for as long as possible. No thanks Chromium.
Firefox, on my desktops and my phone. Several reasons:
- It's relatively trustworthy.
- It uses the only non-WebKit-derived browser engine still in active development. Monoculture is bad.
- It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.
Firefox FTW!
I can't imagine using any Chromium browser when ad-blockers stops working.
It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.
Wait its going to be unsupported after?
In Chromium and derived browsers, yes. It already doesn't work in Safari and presumably other WebKit-derived browsers. Firefox will soon be the only browser capable of running a truly effective ad-blocking extension.
Firefox gang 😎 I don't get the hate, the browser has been great for decades
Firefox on PC and Android. DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now
DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now
How is that working for you? I am thinking of switching in my quest to get out of google stuff
I tried that for quite a while but ultimately gave up. For many (technical or non-English) topics, I found no fitting result of my search on the first page.
Not op but I'm using DDG since many years and I feel like is continuously improving.
In case you miss google or you need a different search you can simply add !g to the search and search on google from DDG (it opens a google page)
Great, occasionally have to switch search engines to get certain kinds of results but that's true with Google as well
PC: Firefox (without the arkenson js yet) Android: Firefox too ^^
I really like that Firefox is one of the rare breeds on the mobile scene which provides some browser extensions too.
yo question ab firefox coming from dude who knows very little ab it, i watched a video browser tier list by eric murphy and he listed hardened firefox in S tier, do u reach hardened firefox by downloading configs for it off github? how reliable is it and do things tend to crash if u try to have many options at the same time (like an amalgamtion of stuff from different ppl in order to reached a specific desired outcome, in terms of options, security settings and look)?
I know all you nerds use firefox, but i'm still on the plebian chrome
Boo, not even chromium
😂 I was on Firefox before Chrome, and happily switched once I learned how much faster Chrome was around 2008. Switched back to Firefox not long after they introduced container tabs and their android browser is so much nicer that now I can't use chrome anymore.
I did the same, except I just switched back to Firefox this past fall. Trying to degoogle myself
You pleb! (jk)
Firefox still has some integrity unlike chrome and its clones.
Librewolf
Yesss
Firefox, I mean, its pretty much the default considering where we are
Firefox.
I used Chrome for the longest time, but I started having a problem that I thought was Chrome related so I installed Firefox to see if it solved my issue. It didn´t, and I eventually discovered the actual issue of my problem, but I ended up liking Firefox too much and stayed.
Firefox. after the manifestv2 deprecation was approaching for chome I packed up and switched to firefox. I rely on uBlock Origin too much to be lest stuck on a browser it doesn't run on. also the pleasant surprise of full extension support on the nightly android version was a nice touch!
@Bicyclejohn Firefox
I use Firefox (and I've used it since it was called phoenix, and I've used the free software mozilla suit before that).
BUT I've been very unhappy about the corporate leadership of the project for a long time. I don't trust them at all. They regularly do user hostile shit like ads and tracking and endorsing DRM, then act surprised by user backlash and backtrack partially, only to try again a couple of months later.
Many people who work there are clearly shit-brained corporate silicon valley types, and the leadership most likely cynical money-grubbing grifters.
I hope the various free software degoogled chromium forks all come together to make a good browser. A browser that works on both Linux and Android, that can sync all the stuff between both, and which has no tracking and good ad blocking.
I have been using Firefox since 2005. Back then it was over 9000 kilometres ahead of Internet Explorer and was in so many ways better browser. These days it stands as the biggest alternative to Chromium and Google's efforts of gobbling up the web. I don't see any reasons to switch.
Firefox, because a) open source, b) ad blocking, and c) fuck Google and other corporate overlords.
firefox.
nearly every other browser out there except Safari is just chromium with a coat of paint, and i am not a fan of monopolies.
Librewolf and ungoogle chromium for the occasional websites that only works well with chrome.
Same here, only website I use chromium with is Twitch because they make it nigh impossible to login on anything else.
Firefox on PC, Mull on phone and Brave on tablet (until Firefox has tab bar for tablet UI). I can't browse the internet with awful ads, so ublock origin is a must.
vivaldi cus its just too gorgeous and so many things packed in face with heart eyes
I found vivaldi to have too many things packed into it's face
i dont even blame u i thought so too at the start but i unironically use alot of them now.. use the notes app cus its there and convenient i can attach links and a screenshot to it, quicker than opening another notes app and making a new file specifically for the website i wana talk ab, i use the mail client cus quicker than opening gmail, and the rss thing is smt im just getting into. ik im bringing brave outa nowhere but most of brave's packed in stuff are alot less useful for me xD
Lmao I guess I’ll be the only person to say Safari. It’s fast, privacy focused, and secure. I don’t care about extensions and I like the UI.
Safari has some great extensions! I use Wipr on all my devices.
I use firefox because I feel like it's one of the best browsers out there. Brave is close second. Brave although doesn't have enough freedom while switching from one brave browser to another. I mean, firefox allows you to sync your data online (I trust mozilla, so this ain't a problem), but Brave always has been bad in this regard.
Also, I like the fact that firefox is not chrome and idk, I just like the look and feel of firefox
Firefox because its pre-installed on pretty much every Linux distro I'd want to try. I've used it for a long time, back in version 2.x. Then I tried out chrome for quite awhile but their pushback against adblockers made me migrate back to firefox. Haven't regretted it!
Ever since I got my first laptop when I was a young teenager it's been Firefox. With Google exploring deleting blockers like uBlock Origin I see no reason to switch.
On desktop I use librewolf, and occasionally vivaldi when I need to access something that requires chromium.
On mobile I use the duckduckgo browser, which has a lot of the features built in that I would require an add-ons with firefox. I used to use fennec, but it had the problem of being bloated with all of the default options on desktop like the sign in, which I do not like, and at the same time being anemic with only like 5 add-ons.
Also, fennec really annoyed me by hijacking anything that required a browser, even if one was built into a program I was using, or was a secondary option. I had the most annoying time trying to sign into SoundCloud, until I finally deleted fennec and I was presented with a normal, native login screen.
Why Vivaldi over something like Brave or Ungoogled Chromium for your odd thing that requires it?
Honestly that would be better. I use Vivaldi out of pure convenience. It is in my package manager as a native app. Brave is awkward, only through flatpak, which I don't mind but not a first choice. I am hesistant to use anything that pushes cryptocurrency. I would rather outright pay for a browser than look at advertisements.
The odd thing is actually the Peterson Strobe Tuner app, and I guess it needs chromium for direct access to the hardware.
librewolf on PC, Mull on my android.
Same here. Couldn't be happier with those two.
LibreWolf. It's Firefox without the adware and sponsored bullshit. I can only take so many "Sponsored Link", "Recommended by Pocket", and MOZILLA VPN OMG!1!1! random popups before I declare a piece of software adware, and Mozilla has crossed that line. LibreWolf also has a bunch of privacy stuff, some of which I turn off because I think it goes a bit too far and breaks some websites.
Same here. Librewolf is great.
mull on mobile and firefox on desktop, ungoogled chromium if i really have to.
I also use Firefox on Windows, Linux and Android.
Firefox and Firefox.
I also use qutebrowser on one machine and I've been using Pulse which is a Firefox fork that is rather nice.
Honestly I'm just stick of all the Chromium browsers out there - stop giving Google such a massive lead in everything.
Firefox. And I even installed Thunderbird again after all these years, since they are going to have a UI refresh this summer. It's a very nice nostalgic feeling to once again use a local email client.
If the new theme is good, it's going to be a keeper. :)
Did the same thing recently. Wishing I could find Thunderbird on Android.
Also been using Firefox since it was called Netscape Navigator.
Firefox, Epiphany web browser and midori. When I'm using windows I use Firefox.
I like Epiphany, but I think it leaks memory or something. After running for a while it starts taking tons of memory and closing tabs doesn’t seem to release it (the computer goes back to normal when it’s closed completely though). Maybe it’s just the Fedora build, I’m not sure
There’s also Otter Browser for another WebKit based choice, but it’s pretty rough and developed slowly
I haven't experienced that. It's been running smoothly when I've used it.
Vivaldi, because it has amazing tab management.
on desktop - firefox
on android - mull (hardened firefox with telemetry and proprietary blobs removed)
for several reasons: its extremely customizable, open source, extensions like ublock origin work best on it, great privacy, not chromium based (fuck google and a browser monoculture), etc.
mozilla isn't perfect and i don't agree with all of their decisions for sure, but despite that, overall firefox ftw
Historically Firefox but I've recently been trying out Brave and really like it. I especially like brave on mobile because it automatically strips all the ads out of YouTube.
firefox on android has ublock origin and when google kills support for what lets adblockers work, apps like brave that are based on chromium will stop working
Firefox on desktop and mobile. Better privacy and more trustworthy than a browser tied to a billion dollar corp.
Firefox is such a great browser. I like that it allows all of the extensions and adblockers.
I went and checked and have discovered I'm the resident browser hipster.
Ecosia.
It's a reskinned version of chrome or chromium or something where your default search engine is Ecosia. The Ecosia search engine is just Bing reskinned and the ad revenue you generate goes towards planting trees!
I've been using it for quite a while, I'm probably responsible for a couple hundred new trees at this point, if not more. They keep a running tally for you but I've used the search engine on multiple devices and haven't bothered to see if you can synch the tally across all of them.
The entire project is up to 175,500,000 trees so far.
I don't know why it would be any good to have a browser reskin just to change the default search engine. It's a simple settings change. Is there any other benefit? Worst case, it becomes poorly maintained and a security risk.
Firefox or Vivaldi on pc & notebook, Vanadium & Fennec on Android - Grapheneos.
Good to see another grapheneos user
I just use Vanilla Firefox, I use chrome for work but all my personal stuff on Firefox, left chrome after there was talk of stopping ad blockers.
Fennic on the phone and Firefox on the desktop.
PC: Qutebrowser iOS: Ecosia
Qutebrowser
That's what i call based
That's a name I haven't heard in a looong time. I mostly browse from my phone / tablet nowadays, but qutebrowser is such a good vim-like browser experience.
qutebrowser really is great, I have tried all of the browser add-ons and other vim-like browsers but I always find myself coming back.
Firefox. Fascinating what a bubble of Firefox user is active here. Should be way different with most statistics show a lot more chrome users.
Lemmy and the fediverse contain ore tech savvy people. Surprised its not hardened Firefox
I use Firefox wherever I can will continue to do so in the forseeable feature. Why? Because Firefox is currently the biggest actor in FOSS web browser space. It makes most sense to support them.
Firefox on desktop, and DuckDuckGo on the iPhone I'm stuck with :)
Vivaldi, for it's customization and all the additional features, like RSS feed reader, Email client, Notes, Calendar, Reminders, Alarm, Translator...
I get that most people just want to be able to use the browser to surf the web, but I like everything that it offers, and I use majority of it's features.
Firefox most of the time, replaced by Chrome on one of my configurations, where Firefox would lead to graphic card freezes from time to time. Edge for Teams at work. Opera once in a while because I am nostalgic of the fantastic Opera mini browser on early versions of Android.
Also, Firefox on Android or Fennec on phones without Google Play.
Firefox, I hate chrome lol
Tor browser and librewolf, but I still have firefox installed.
On desktop: Firefox On Android: Firefox
The extension support is the killer feature, and the open source+supporting a diverse web ecosystem is a close second.
I'm Firefox on desktop and Android as well.
For me, I care about privacy and tracking. I use Unlock Origin, which imo is the best ad block and tracker system.
Mozilla is also non-profit FOSS, so I trust them far more than other browser makers.
AdBlock and privacy blockers on mobile are a lifesaver
I use Firefox.
It's 90% because I remember the days of Internet Explorer and how they had a monopoly and could do whatever they liked - and they did. It was pretty common to have to write two versions of code so that it would work on IE as well as other browsers.
These days Edge, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, pretty much all the major browsers except Firefox all use the Chromium engine, which puts them in a similar position as IE were in during the 90s and early 2000s. It scares me, so I use Firefox.
Mozilla Firefox and Brave, I would say about 85% of my time is spent in Firefox, 15% are webpages that won't cooperate without using Chromium.
PC - Librewolf, Firefox, and very rarely Brave
Phone - Mull and Firefox Nightly
Firefox cuz it uses like no ram and it's completely open source while being detached from the chromium ecosystem
Brave - works mobile and desktop for me.
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Brave
Been using Firefox since it came out 18 years ago. Tried a few others for a bit, but always ended up back with the fox. Using it on all my computers and devices. Tried all kinds of plug-ins, currently using ublock, no-script, privacy badger, bloody vikings!, Bitwarden and.. I guess that's more or less it.
I do have to use Edge a bit for work, just because of some systems that doesn't really work on Firefox and I don't want to use Chrome.
Web application developer by trade... So, unfortunately Chrome at work. But, at home and on mobile, Firefox 100% of the time!
Firefox is my browser for life, but I use a lot of them depending on the context. Chromium has very good dev tools that I need for my work. Safari has good battery performance on macOS laptops. Arc has some nifty new ideas.
Firefox for PC as well as my Android phone. Although mobile Firefox only supports a few add-ons, UBlock is one of them. This means I can simply use YouTube in my browser without ads instead of having to figure out a complicated workaround! It's really nice.
IceRaven (for the addons and a few enhancements) and Bromite. Both are not good choices as they are poorly supported, but that's the reality of mobile browsers I guess.
Tbh I hate mobile browsers in general. I don't understand why they have to be so crippled, especially FF and its forks that keep getting worse with every major version.
Waterfox (Firefox fork), since it lets me put tabs below address bar natively, without a css file, and Vivaldi for sites that need Chromium.
Firefox mostly. I want multiple rendering engines to be viable. Plus it has the plug ins I want on Android and still syncs to desktop. The one problem is chromecasting to the tv from windows. I wish there was a plug in that would let me do that.
This is basically my reasons exactly. I use edge as a backup when a page doesn't work in Firefox, but use Firefox primarily because I don't want the web to be defined by blink's implementation. Plugins on Android, while limited, are unbeatable.
Was content (complacent?) with Edge for a long while till performance dropped off a cliff in latest updates (so much for BingAI). Had been using Ungoogled Chromium more but rough corners annoyed me. So recently tried Vivaldi and was hugely surprised how much its improved since I last used it. And being entirely more flippant these days, RGB integration is a fun (and pointless) feature.
I have to say it's amazing that everyone is actually staying on topic mentioning their favorite browsers and why without resorting to calling each other idiots for using some browsers and not others.
What's your browser, idiot?
<3.
[email protected] all the way!!
Firefox and sync my mountain of addons between all the machines I have it on. Fennec on android.
Recently switched back to Firefox because of the Manifest V3 thing and uBlock on Android.
Firefox on PC, Safari on Mac.
Brave for me. I like the built-in add blocker and since it's Chromium-based, I can still get a lot of the extensions I've been using for a while now. I had been a big Firefox proponent but they hit that block of time where it was just really slow and buggy/janky and I switched to Chromium-based browsers. Been hard for me to find a reason to switch back.
Safari because of the level of iOS/Mac integration. If it ever switches to something based off Chromium, then off to Firefox I go.
I use a couple of browsers because… why not :P
Mobile: Brave (default browser), Safari (pretty much only for news reading since it’s not my default browser anymore), Firefox Focus (quick lookups), Arc (haven’t tested it much yet tho)
Desktop: Brave and Safari (for work), Arc and Firefox (for personal browsing)
I might get flack for this, but I like Microsoft Edge. Based on Chromium and has vertical tabs which is nice, and good support for PWAs since MS killed off their native MS Teams for Linux app. Was too hacky trying to get Firefox to work the way I wanted, with vertical tabs, and no native support for PWAs.
@Bicyclejohn I use Firefox because of its features and better performance.
I'm a stubborn guy using Firefox since Firefox 3 times.
I do have a few other browsers installed (Midori, Chromium, Lynx [yup!] ) but I can't recall the last time that I used any of them.
Mostly edge
It’s quite decent in terms of battery usage
And BingAI occasionally becomes useful for research
Like seemingly most people here, I use Firefox primarily. But while I'm working I use Edge, both to separate my work/non-work computer usage somewhat and because I work mostly with Microsoft technologies anyway, and it integrates nicely with office365 as one would expect. It's a perfectly good browser with some nice features. I think if I needed to use a chrome derivative, it would be either Edge or Vivaldi.
Mull on phone, hardened Firefox on desktop.
Firefox on Debian at home, mostly Chrome on Windows at work (sometimes Edge too) and Chrome on Android on my work phone due to practical reasons.
Currently using vanilla Firefox with https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to make the tabs look like actual tabs rather than weird floaty bubbles.
Used to use Chromium, but switched because they made it so that sites could autoplay videos in response to "user interactions", whatever that means.
TBH, not that happy with the current state of browsers; too much telemetry and not enough customizability.
Firefox and Kiwi on mobile.
Firefox and Brave on desktop.
Oh and Chrome, too. I'm sorry but my job requires it. :(
Used Waterfox and Vivaldi for a while, but had to go back to Chromium. My daily driver is an old HP mini PC running the latest Linux Mint. Both Waterfox and Vivaldi seemed ok at first, but after a while, things just got too slow and both just seemed not to function as they should. Could just be that my machine is too old to keep up, but chromium runs fine.
I'm a Waterfox user with Vivaldi as my backup. For the longest time Spotify wouldn't work in Waterfox, so I only used Vivaldi for music playback.
I use Waterfox because I want to use Firefox, but without the extra junk like Pocket and their ad "experiments."
Chrome for anything Google related. Firefox + NoScript for most browsing. I have pi-hole running on my network and don't permit anything but that node to query outbound for DNS.
Vivaldi. I was a huge Opera fan before they sold out, and Vivaldi is as close as possible to that in a modern browser. I also sometimes use Firefox, but find Vivaldi is faster, has features that work better together than a mishmash of extensions, and works with more stuff because chromium.
Firefox unless if work related because my shitty company makes things Edge compatible only.
Mobile I use Samsung eventhough I haven't used a Samsung phone in ages
Firefox.
I've been using it since the Phoenix days. I occasionally go to Vivaldi (which is currently my secondary browser), but currently I'm back with Firefox.
Chrome. Google password manager is just too useful.
I have changed browser maybe every five or so years, whenever I had issues with the one I'm using. I've been back on Firefox as primary for a couple of years now.
I use Brave and Vivaldi.
I use Vivaldi, because it just has a better UI and better usability features.
Either Firefox or Librewolf (fork of Firefox). On my Lineage, I use Fennec. I usually restrict it even more with custom uBlock Origin filters and dnsmasq sinkholes to get away from 'Sign in with Google'-like popups, though.
I like to split tasks/genres between browsers.
Chrome: day job Gmail, calendar etc, and other work related research Vivaldi: web dev testing Firefox: everything else
Firefox on mobile
Firefox on PC and Android. I've been using it almost since it came out.
But in the early days, the UI was super slow and extensions tended to slow it even more, so I moved to Chrome for a few years.
Then back to Firefox, but the devs caught an attitude and didn't want to listen to users, so I moved to Edge (Chromium) for a couple of years. Apparently, the Firefox devs did end up listening, so it's all good again.
Man, your comment encompasses Firefox perfectly.
I switched from Firefox to Chrome back when Chrome first came out. Switched back to Firefox after a bit, but Firefox was so slow and janky, and they screwed over all extensions, that I didn't last long before returning to Chrome. Switched to Edge Chromium, and now I am back on Firefox since the manifest v3 news.
Firefox is still jank. There's currently a bug that breaks label printing on Firefox, and despite many people reporting it to Mozilla, they just haven't fixed it or acknowledged it. The Android version is so clunky, and it has taken them years to release pull to refresh, and when they finally did, it's extremely buggy.
It's really a love/hate relationship with Mozilla lol
It’s really a love/hate relationship with Mozilla lol
Pretty much! And yeah, the Android app also has so much drama going on. They changed the app and didn't allow extensions for a while. Now they only allow a few (?). I remember being pissed about GreaseMonkey because I used my own script on a website and I had just decided to try it out on my phone, and bam! the update killed GM on the phone.
Tor Browser, because my threat model is passive surveillance capitalism so anti-tracking is important.
Else, Firefox (vanilla).
Very nice. I'd be willing to guess some people have been reading Michael Bazzell lately.
Isn't tor overkill for dealing with companies?
For me, companies includes Cloudflare, Google, Amazon and Meta, and my primary goal is anonymity to them (rather than security). So no, Tor and Tor Browser is not overkill for these companies.
Edge, and works really well so far.
LibreWolf (and Ungoogled Chromium) on Linux, Vanadium (and Mull) on phone. Parenthetical ones are what I use when my main browsers refuse to load something.
Been on Firefox on on all OS's for ages, but I will likely switch to LibreWolf as well. Vanadium on personal phone. For work I'm basically stuck on edge/chrome on both desktop and phone.
Using Orion on iOS currently (there’s a macOS version too). It’s made by the same people behind the Kagi search engine. I’m loving it. Built with WebKit and on mobile it utilises some power saving feature Safari does not.
They plan to release a Windows version eventually too, and using WebKit! (Not Chromium).
You will hate me for this, but I use chrome and chromium mostly on my PC. It is just easier. Chromium being less spy-y than chrome.
Brave on mobile and desktop
Firefox user here, switched from Chrome around 3-4 years ago after getting fed up with chrome (don't remember why exactly).
Been pretty happy with FF since then
I use Vivaldi and Firefox. I like Vivaldi customisability, tabbing, workspaces, rss support and Firefox robustness. Vivaldi also supports mail etc but i have not used that yet.
Vanilla Firefox here as well.
Firefox across mobile and desktop. Tried some more obscure browsers, but keep coming back to Firefox.
Firefox most of the time, portable/standalone chromium for the rare occasion where Firefox doesn't work.
Firefox because of the manifest v3 crap.
Before I switched back to Firefox, I was using Edge. Edge is probably the best browser out there currently. It has so many amazing features built in that make every other browser look featureless.
Even though manifest v3 is on hold, I don't care. I am staying on Firefox. Even though Mozilla broke label printing a few months ago, and despite bug reports being submitted, they haven't fixed it. Mozilla is definitely REALLY slow at development. (It took years for Firefox on Android to get pull to refresh, and it's still a buggy mess lol)
Firefox Gang, checking in.
@Bicyclejohn Firefox, whatever version is default on LM😁E, with containers, NoScript and Ublock for privacy purposes
I’m really enjoying Arc - the keyboard functionality is great, I like the way spaces work, and it’s quite pretty. I recommend checking it out if you can get an invite.
Firefox for me.
I used to be a Chrome guy for ages but made the switch a few years back after I noticed Chrome was getting a bit bloated.
Firefox
Firefox. It's faster and more lightweight than chrome and has bigger fonts. I find chrome's label's eye-straining. Also it's not owned by Google or Microsoft. DuckDuckGo on mobile because I don't like the mobile version of Firefox, and I can delete all cookies using the fire button (On my laptop Cookie AutoDelete does that for me.)
Vanilla firefox-esr from the Debian repo + TOR browser when required. I've flirted with others but keep coming back to FF.
Safari on iOS/iPadOS and Firefox on Windows/macOS.
Hoping for alternative browser engines and extensions in third-party browsers on iOS, maybe already with iOS 17. Then I could probably switch to Firefox on all platforms.
I've used a few firefox forks but decided to KISS and stay with Firefox.
I use Chrome for work as their dev tools are better and it allows me to easily separate both.
Firefox, and have done for the past 20 years
@Bicyclejohn firefox or opera one
I use the regular Firefox with some addons. I've tried various browsers in the past and used them as my default browser for a while, but I always ended up going back to Firefox. Now I'm sticking with it.
Personal Use:
- Firefox with all privacy guards enabled on PC
- Samsung Internet and Firefox on mobile
Work Use: Edge. Honestly such an impressive browser - much faster than other browsers ime, great set of built in tools. If it wasn't for the privacy concerns, I would probably shift to Edge.
I've found vanilla chromium to be as fast as and occasionally faster than edge.
@Bicyclejohn Firefox, I don't know why, I suppose that I used it always.
Then I use Brave for pages which are optimized only for Chrome (unfortunately a lot of official portals in my place).
In mobile devices Brave and the native (Samsung Internet) I haven't checked Firefox yet.Firefox for most things, Vivaldi if I need a chromium based browser
Waterfox G5, because it's literally just modern Firefox ESR but with the ability to install legacy add-ons re-enabled.
I use this to make my own personal CSS themes and JS add-ons (as well as use existing ones like in the link above) and manage them in a way that's more elegant and streamlined than userChrome.
Bromite and Fennec as backup on mobile (one place where you should go with chromium since security really matters here and things need to be patched ASAP) and Firefox, Vivaldi and Chromium as backup on Linux.
I thought Vivaldi was a gimmick for a long time but it grows on you. I ended up recreating stuff like gestures and sidebar from Vivaldi in Firefox with extensions.
Good ole Firefox for me! Can't say it's ever really let me down, and I've never had a problem finding extensions for it either (which other friends of mine say that they can't...)
And while I don't do a lot of web development, every now and then I'll dabble into it and FF's dev tools are pretty nice as well.
Vivaldi, mostly because of the “quick commands” keyboard navigation. Opens an Alfred / Spotlight style input, type what you want and jump right to that feature or toggle or website or whatever. Love me some good keyboard based nav. Definitely one to check out for anyone used to working a lot with Sublime.
I'm using Vivaldi rn and so far happy with it
Haven't heard that browser in a while, cool choice! What sets it apart?
customization for almost all UI element but I just use it as a regular browser (setup adblock, and then casually browsing the web 🤷)
it kinda slow tho
Brave on both PC and mobile, ad and cookie blocking built in, backed by EFF, and (for better or worse) Chromium-based so it's well-supported on sites like YouTube that take some animistic measures to lower Firefox quality of life
And I just saw that they added vertical tabs in a recent update! Tress-style tabs is basically the only thing that was really keeping me on firefox, feature wise.
Sadly, Brave just has vertical tabs like Edge, it's not a tree style tabs replacement.
I'm also impressed by their Brave Search, it no longer needs to make calls to Bing, and has great localized searches 😊
Aside from needing to have grapheneOS, Is there any reason not to use vandium on mobile?
Vanadium is a great browser and there is nothing inherently bad about it. I also use GrapheneOS, but I prefer Firefox for the uBlock and Dark Reader extensions as well as syncing with my other devices.
I’m in web dev, so I have a bunch of browsers. My main driver on my desktop is Librewolf with a bunch of extensions that make browsing the web enjoyable at best and tolerable at worst. I use DuckDuckGo Lite as my main search engine on all my browsers.
Other browsers I use are Brave (main browser on my mobile device). Vanilla Firefox (for web dev or logging in as Librewolf isn’t best for many aspects of web development and many sites trip up when you try to log in with LW). Ungoogled Chromium when Brave is too slow (Brave is slowest of the ones I use).
I also read news from the Links terminal browser. Yes the original Links Browser, not Lynx, or elinks, or links2, or w3m, etc.
I don’t use Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Edge. I use Safari sparingly just to be sure some of my sites are working on it. I have played around with Tor, but generally don’t have a need to set anything up on the Dark Web at the time of this writing, so yeah.
I've been using Arc exclusively for the past few months, and really enjoy the experience. It has so many nice little UX flourishes, and tab management is super clean and organized.
Ungoogled Chromium.
I was looking for private browsers, and found myself astonished at how the market is saturated in Chromium-based browsers, and how every website seems to only support theses browsers, so I had to accept that Chromium will be all there is until a new big thing appears, and wound up finding a Chromium fork that seems to remove all google aspects from it. I've had to tweak a few things but the experience has been very smooth so far.
Firefox exists and works great. I'm in IT and use it for everything. Tab containers and temporary tabs are amazing.
the market is saturated in Chromium-based browsers, and how every website seems to only support theses browsers
Outside of Google blocking some of their websites from Firefox (the only one I can think of currently is Stadia Bluetooth Mode), which websites do you find that only support Chrome? I haven't found any.
I didn't mean it as in "it only works in Chrome", but how some websites just seem to ignore any problems that are in non-Chromium browsers.
librewolf on the desktop. works for me. Came from vivaldi, which is too big for my old laptop setup (takes ages to load). Using fennec on android. But, recently i needed a browser for android which allows a bookmark.html file to be imported (camera froze with sync) and couldn't find one. everything today MUST go over the sync (cloud).
Same for me, but I've started using fulguris on android. I think it just uses the android webrenderer unfortunately, but it is open source.
i stand corrected: i just found an incredible browser, allowing html file import and a lot more!: soul browser. Now also testing as my main browser
Question: what do people have against chromium? I understand not liking Chrome specifically, but what's the issue with non-Google chromium? I use Brave on my PC and phone, and Edge for work.
As for Firefox, I love and appreciate what they are doing and what they stand for. I tried using it and had one bad experience, where I was doing some web dev and encountered a bug that drove me crazy trying to fix, only to find it was a bug with FF itself. So I switched to Brave for development, and then I liked it and haven't switched back. So, not to say that one little bug "ruined" FF for me, I just haven't had any reason to stop using Brave.
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what do people have against chromium?
Dunno about others, but I run older hardware and Chrom* was a resource piglet for me.
Which is ironic, since when Chrome was released, it got traction for being slimmer and a lot faster than Firefox.
It probably doesn't help, that browsers had to become (almost) full operating systems and runtime environment.
Unsing older hardware here too. Had to move to pale moon because even Firefox struggles with 2gb of ram.
Safari for everything. I'm deep in the apple ecosystem. Edge when I'm on my PC, once in a blue moon.
I just recently switched to Arc, and it is soo good. Really changing my workflow for the better. So nice to experience a product where people have opiniated ideas about how something can be done differently. It might not be for everyone, but damn its something for me.
Loving Arc! I kinda like how it doesn’t really make a distinction between tabs and favorites, and at the same time I kinda don’t.
Do you have a solution for links you want to have access to someday but don’t really want as pinned tabs or favorites? I have some pinned tab folders at the moment, but I don’t love that solution. I’ve used Pinboard in the past but, 1) I feel like that product is dying and 2) I’d like tighter browser integration.
cough chrome. It just works. I've been sucked into the g-verse of things. I was a long time f-fox user but there was a particular print to pdf instance that I couldn't do any longer on f-fox, so I just surrendered
After a long time of using Chromium browsers (from Chrome to Brave to Edge to Vivaldi) I ended up back at good old Firefox again. On Mac I just use either Safari or Firefox. There's been a time where I was particularly unhappy with Firefox, as at the time it felt sluggish to me. Now it's the exact opposite. I've become very frustrated with how sluggish Chromium browsers can be. While I appreciate the efforts of the Vivaldi crew I think I'm just happier with Firefox.
Wish I could figure out why clicking on my downloads in the download list doesn't open them, though (I'm on KDE Neon).
Wish I could figure out why clicking on my downloads in the download list doesn't open them, though (I'm on KDE Neon).
Not sure if the UI is exactly the same but are you clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the name or the filename itself?
If you click the name on the OS versions I've used, it opens the file or in the case of a zip, unpacks it.
For me there’s the filename followed by a map icon. Clicking on the map opens op Dolphin at the download folder as expected, but clicking on the file doesn’t always work. Files like PDFs work just fine, but Deb and Flatpakref files don’t open up the KDE package manager as expected. I’m not really sure why that is. Suppose it’s down to the handlers but I’m not sure how to configure that on Linux.
Funnily enough LibreWolf properly asks me what I want to do with a file and does it accordingly.
EDIT: I’ve fixed the issue, more or less. I was using the Flatpak version of Firefox and by default it seems to have very limited access. Adding a permission to allow access to my home folder fixes it. It’s probably not the most secure solution though.
Mostly Safari since I am part of the golden cage anyway. If something does not work there, I fall back to Firefox.
Safari has actually been a decent experience for me since I joined the golden cage a few months back. It really just works (most of the time™️), as do
allmost things Apple. Lack of support for some modern web technologies is rather off-putting, though...
Firefox user here :/ The only extension that I really use is the tree based tabs, but I wouldn't mind dropping that.
Trying to push over to qutebrowser because it fits a lot better with my setup.
Didn't know mullvad had a browser though, will have to check that out for sure.
You don't even use uBlock Origin?
I recently switched from Firefox to Arc, which is in closed beta right now. It has a great Tab management. If anyone is interested I can send you an invite :)
Just checked out the Arc website and am interested! if you can still can send invites I’d take one :)
What is arc?
A fairly new browser based on chromium
Brave. Because Mozilla made me switch from Firefox after almost 20 years due to its idiotic development trend (remove features, add crappy UI, disregard community feedback).
I use Brave. It's not perfect but I like the built-in adblock and the crypto stuff is an added bonus.
Brave. Open source, blocks everything and use Chromium for maximum web compatibility.