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It's pretty shocking that Firefox has so much use here! In a quick scan through the thread, I haven't seen ANY Chrome users! But it's supposed to be the clear winner of the browser wars, how come so many Lemmy users avoid it? I'm not complaining mind you, I use Firefox itself, but the cultural difference is striking.

I've been thinking a bit at how users self-select in different communities. I often make the same comment on Mastodon and Bluesky, and tech topics do MUCH better on Mastodon, despite the considerably smaller userbase, while general social media stuff does a little better on Bluesky. It's so interesting!

I use Waterfox on my laptop/desktop and Ironfox on my phone (with Chromium as a desktop backup, and Vanadium as a mobile back up)

librewolf on my personal machine and firefox on my work machine (I'm only allowed vanilla firefox or chrome on there)

Brave, Firefox focus, opera, and chrome(with js, cookies, and preloading turned off)

Firefox. Vivaldi. Firefox for anything important.

Firefox on Android and PC

Orion on iPad

Waterfox desktop, Fennec mobile

Firefox tweaked to the point it'd really make more sense to start with waterfox/librewolf if I didn't already have the momentum. Vivaldi is slicker, but I think it's important to support an engine besides chromium

Firefox on Android, iPad and PC.

Firefox almost exclusively with the requisite plugins. Only using other browsers when a site requires it, like Safari on iOS, but that happens maybe 1-2 times a year. I don’t even have Chrome installed anymore.

So far, I main Vivaldi, with a back up of Mullvad Browser when I am doing research and don't want to be fingerprinted easily!

Right now I use Vivaldi on my work computer. For my personal devices (MacBook, iPhone, two iPads), I've been mainly using Kagi's Orion browser for about a year. It's a WebKit browser but even on iOS it can run (some) Chrome/Firefox extensions, which I think is pretty neat. I also dabble with iCab. It's a very eccentric browser with an interesting history that goes back to the 90s.

Zen on the desktop, Firefox on mobile. Zen has quickly surpassed what I thought it would be capable of, and it keeps adding awesome UI bangers that I wish Firefox would have though of decades ago.

I use Mullvad on my PC and Brave on my phone and tablet. (Please, don't hurt me fellow Lemmings)

Vivaldi, as it isn't American.

Waterfox.

But also sometimes use Zen, Librewolf or Firefox.

Don't really have a reason why I bounce around. I just do.

But definitely never a chromium browser unless I have to.

Librewolf, Firefox, ironfox, and if I have to, Vivaldi. Fuck Google.

Librewolf or Mullvad on desktop, Firefox on mobile. Downloaded Ecosia on mobile to try the search engine, so I’m trying out their browser too.

waterfox on debian, firefox on phone.

not sure if librewolf would be better on linux , open to convincing

Waterfox

Waterfox

Librewolf on desktop, ironfox on mobile. I don't agree with the direction Mozilla is going in, which is why I don't donate to them, but it's still kilometres better than chrome.

I can't wait until servo gets a stable release and browsers start popping up with that instead.

Librewolf and fennec

Firefox with Firefox Mobile and Servo on the side, getting ready to replace it.

I use librewolf and ungoogled chromium all day every day.

I use a bunch for browser isolation. The one I have for general use is librewolf, though.

Firefox. Considering moving (back) to Waterfox, but unwilling to make the effort right now. I last used Waterfox back when they beat Firefox proper to being a true 64-bit browser.

But here's the interesting one that I've mentioned before: MiniBrowser. It's a bare bones browser that's included with libwebkit* packages on Linux, which are, in turn installed by various other packages that might need some kind of web-like parsing.

I wouldn't recommend it as a daily driver, but it's useful as a troubleshooting tool when I think there might be a problem with Firefox or between Firefox, my config, and some site or another.