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[–] FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Already switched to Zen on PC and Fennec on Android.

Edit: Zen screwed up. I use Librewolf now. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40522904

[–] BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Played around with zen this afternoon - worried about what appears to be their stance of deferring to Firefox when it comes to privacy policy etc. (Also found what appears to be a weird glitch where the flatpak version crapped out when I tried to set up multiple profiles - appimage worked well.)

Installed waterfox instead. I have only used it for perhaps 2 hours so far, but I already feel like I like it better than default Firefox.

I think my main problem with these smaller browsers is that it's more work for me as a user to keep tabs of what happens around these projects. If the browser I pick has a usage rate of 0.03% instead of 3%, I expect that only 1/100 as many eyes are going to keep up with what this browser (developer) is doing, meaning that I will be much, much less likely to hear about any fuckups from the devs.

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I’ve been using gnome web for a bit

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Chromium for work and mulvad for home.

[–] Safeguard@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

Yep, switched tot waterfox...

[–] Blazing8215@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

I tried to, but both Vivaldi and Brave had issues I couldn't get over and in the end I decided to have a time out by switching to Firefox ESR with custom policy and autoconfig.

Whatever happens in April will probably take time to land on ESR so I will hopefully have plenty of time to adopt about:config changes or actually switch to another browser.

I don't feel like switching back to LibreWolf, since I already used it ages ago and learnt to make my current setup with upstream Firefox, so it would be kind of pointless and what would I do at Chromium? Three months and ManifestV2 is permanently killed and what extension doesn't say to run better on Firefox? I have been observing at least uBlock Origin (manifest V2), Privacy Badger (v3 in Chrome) and NoScript (also v3) and I think at least GitHub discussions said they all have shortcomings on Chrome.

[–] OmegaSunkey@ani.social -1 points 4 months ago

I've tried every now and then but could never switch to firefox fully. It was either big ram usage, slowness, or the inability to handle more than 2 tabs. On android. On pc its just the first 2.

Cromite.

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe -1 points 4 months ago

Switching from Android to iPhone soon, what is the best browser for the iPhone? 🤔

Very interested in responses, following.

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