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I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me

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[–] cstaaben@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] JshKlsn@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Firefox for work and most things due to it being open source and with a good ad and tracker blocker.

Chrome for YT (AdBlock off to support creators) and for running the incremental games for my channel (they generally work better with Chrome). Although I am considering switching to Vivaldi for this purpose.

[–] arbiter329@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Firefox on PC, Safari on Mac.

[–] Phobian347@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Cowabunghole@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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.

[–] mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Several things:

  • Owned by for profit company
  • Browser engine is dominant
  • Said company is in the ad business, so they don't have the best incentives for privacy
  • Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
  • Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users

Meanwhile, I'm glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace "invented Comic Sans" with "uses Chrome") https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

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[–] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] computerguy@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] HrBingR@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Aragorn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I use Brave and Vivaldi.

[–] smallerdemon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Work: Edge - all my work stuff is tied into Microsoft back ends. Work: Web Catalog - Creates a distraction free, focused environment for my work activities. Personal: Firefox iOS: Brave across the board for ad-blocking (especially YouTube ad blocking)

[–] jmsw22@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] kinther@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] okbin@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

how about mullvad browser? that’s what i started using. based on tor but less overkill :)

[–] Dame@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use Arc and Orion for my computer. Mobile I use DDG and Orion

[–] Mir@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Is Arc still mac only?

[–] Tebz@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I've found vanilla chromium to be as fast as and occasionally faster than edge.

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] ZippyZiggurat@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] nickapos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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