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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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[โ€“] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] nix@merv.news 7 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] Can_Utility@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years 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

[โ€“] Racle@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago

Firefox developer edition.

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

[โ€“] max@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago

Firefox. Developer edition, to be specific.

[โ€“] Iceblade02@lemdit.com 5 points 2 years 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.

[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] kudzu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] Fisch@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

LibreWolf, which is a fork of Firefox focused on privacy

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago

Firefox + ublock

[โ€“] RMiddleton@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] nihth@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[โ€“] GroteStreet@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years 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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[โ€“] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Librewolf. It is Firefox with private defaults.

[โ€“] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] portside@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years 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.

[โ€“] ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Firefox.

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

[โ€“] agedbeef@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] kamen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Vivaldi. For me, in terms of usability, it's the closest thing to Opera (and by "Opera" I mean the browser that it was before moving to Blink/Chromium).

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

[โ€“] hroderic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[โ€“] Rescuer6394@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] theKalash@feddit.ch 3 points 2 years ago

Chrome on Mac.

[โ€“] Cosmocrat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

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

Firefox running under native wayland for smooth scrolling and with apz.overscroll.enabled set to true. The best experience on Linux.

[โ€“] drifty@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Floorp. It's a Firefox fork with good privacy and security, but not as intrusive as Librewolf and doesn't break websites by default

[โ€“] root@aussie.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 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.

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[โ€“] SinTacks@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave. It got better privacy ratings than Firefox and I really like the design.

[โ€“] colonial@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

> browser that's based on Chromium and got caught editing referral links into URLs got a better privacy rating than Firefox

You've been lied to lol

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[โ€“] mrpibb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Firefox for personal. I like Edge for work stuff.

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