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Since currently Lemmy is mostly made up of nerds, I'd like to know what browsers you use and why? You could just upvote the comment with your browser of choice if you don't want to explain.

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[–] nix@merv.news 8 points 1 year ago

https://pulsebrowser.app its a minimalist Firefox fork with an extremely handy sidebar and sane defaults

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Not Chrome. Not Edge. Not Brave.

Chrome is tied too closely to Google. I don’t trust Google with my data because their business model is all about monetizing anything you give them. It’s also always been bloated and slow on the Mac.

It’s a shame because when Edge first came out, it was great. Now it’s a bloated dumping ground of privacy-invading featuritis.

Brave recently had a bunch of privacy/monetization controversies that put me off of it as well.

That leaves me with Firefox and Safari.

Vivaldi seems interesting, but so far I haven’t seen any performance differences between it and Safari. Thought I’d give it a try to see how well it worked on an older Mac, but it was missing webp support there, just like Safari.

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ProtonBadger@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Same, because it's a good browser and because of their commitment to an open internet.

I keep telemetry enabled (it can be perused openly on telemetry.mozilla.org if interested).

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago
[–] max@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox. Developer edition, to be specific.

[–] Can_Utility@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a total browser slut.

At work, I use Firefox as my main browser. I had been using Edge to access the Chromium rendering engine, but I've recently switched over to Arc.

At home, I recently exchanged Safari for Orion and Edge for Arc, with Firefox for when I work from home.

I used to have Opera installed for times when a VPN came in handy.

All on Mac

[–] Iceblade02@lemdit.com 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox, been using it on my PC as long as I've had one. Been forced to use Chrome, I.E & Edge on work computers and don't fancy them particularly.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

LibreWolf, which is a fork of Firefox focused on privacy

[–] Racle@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox developer edition.

Switched to that because of chrome's manifest v3 announcement.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Firefox + ublock

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I use run the Nintendo DS web browser on my Gameboy.

[–] kudzu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Firefox, but Vivaldi seems cool and I might start using it in on mobile.

[–] nihth@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Home pc: Vivaldi

Phone: Vivaldi

Work pc: Vivaldi + Firefox

Edit: i really liked the old Opera browser (12.16 and prior or whatever), and Vivaldi is the closest to that

[–] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The og Opera was so good and innovative. Would've paid for it (when it was still ad-supported), were I not a poor student at the time.

When they became yet another chromium skin with no soul, I moved fully to FF. Now Vivaldi is my second browser alongside FF.

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[–] RMiddleton@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi on laptop, Orion on iPhone β€” but as of last week Orion is crashing multiple times a day (after months of use without issues).

[–] ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox.

I'm so happy to see that almost everyone here uses Firefox or a fork of it!

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Librewolf. It is Firefox with private defaults.

For work I use Safari, for fun I use Firefox, and for anything that demands I use Chrome I use Chrome.

[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi. I use Firefox too, but I love the mouse gestures and other features.

[–] agedbeef@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I use orion on Mac and it works well 99% of the time.

[–] darkstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Brave on my Windows desktop, and Arc for my MacOS laptop

[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Moved from Edge to Firefox and back to Edge a few days later. FF "works" but I prefer the less clicks requiring Edge UI. The faster bookmarking, the better vertical tabs (though you can kind of get it to work with verticalFox css). Edge loads faster and handling drag and drop of tabs and better website translation. FF also had performance issues on some websites. Another is, Edge bookmark icon remembers my click, while FF UI always resets.

I use a combination of desktop and android and FF android really isn't good with it's UI, it would require many more clicks to save 10 bookmarks inside my desktop folders and much longer to sync them. While on Edge it was two touch and instant sync.

I'd say FF is fine for 99% if the people but I was looking for something else. I did this just a few days ago.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are literally the first person I have ever seen that prefers edge over any other browser. I knew there were some of you out there somewhere... Thanks for sharing your experience.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

There are dozens of us!

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[–] portside@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago

I moved to Firefox on desktop years ago.

On mobile I use Firefox as default, Cromite if something does not work on Firefox, Kiwi Browser as backup.

Firefox and Kiwi Browser on mobile is a bit sluggish and slow on my phone.

[–] hroderic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to use Firefox, but I'm too used to vertical tabs and the plugins available for Firefox aren't quite there yet, so Brave it is.

[–] Rescuer6394@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

try the latest beta of sidebery. directly from the GitHub page.

[–] mrpibb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox for personal. I like Edge for work stuff.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

When X breaks, i use Lynx.

[–] Cosmocrat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Been using Brave for several years on all my devices, I might switch to a Firefox variant at some point tho.

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

Chrome on Mac.

Arc + uBo Mac, Firefox + uBo mobile

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