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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Firefox on Debian at home, mostly Chrome on Windows at work (sometimes Edge too) and Chrome on Android on my work phone due to practical reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mull on phone, Librewolf on PC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had Firefox running with custom CSS for a long while but then (on two different machines) I got a weird bug that increasingly led websites to time out while loading. Had to wait out the time out (reloading during didn't help) and then after time out it immediately loaded after an F5.

I switched to Vivaldi after that because it could be customized to pretty much exactly how I had my Firefox with minimal custom CSS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aside from needing to have grapheneOS, Is there any reason not to use vandium on mobile?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Vanilla Firefox here as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use the regular Firefox with some addons. I've tried various browsers in the past and used them as my default browser for a while, but I always ended up going back to Firefox. Now I'm sticking with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good ole Firefox for me! Can't say it's ever really let me down, and I've never had a problem finding extensions for it either (which other friends of mine say that they can't...)

And while I don't do a lot of web development, every now and then I'll dabble into it and FF's dev tools are pretty nice as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Vivaldi, mostly because of the “quick commands” keyboard navigation. Opens an Alfred / Spotlight style input, type what you want and jump right to that feature or toggle or website or whatever. Love me some good keyboard based nav. Definitely one to check out for anyone used to working a lot with Sublime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Used Waterfox and Vivaldi for a while, but had to go back to Chromium. My daily driver is an old HP mini PC running the latest Linux Mint. Both Waterfox and Vivaldi seemed ok at first, but after a while, things just got too slow and both just seemed not to function as they should. Could just be that my machine is too old to keep up, but chromium runs fine.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brave on both PC and mobile, ad and cookie blocking built in, backed by EFF, and (for better or worse) Chromium-based so it's well-supported on sites like YouTube that take some animistic measures to lower Firefox quality of life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And I just saw that they added vertical tabs in a recent update! Tress-style tabs is basically the only thing that was really keeping me on firefox, feature wise.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Firefox and Kiwi on mobile.

Firefox and Brave on desktop.

Oh and Chrome, too. I'm sorry but my job requires it. :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@Bicyclejohn firefox or opera one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Safari on iOS/iPadOS and Firefox on Windows/macOS.

Hoping for alternative browser engines and extensions in third-party browsers on iOS, maybe already with iOS 17. Then I could probably switch to Firefox on all platforms.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mull has been very good to me, so I've stuck to using it so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use a couple of browsers because… why not :P

Mobile: Brave (default browser), Safari (pretty much only for news reading since it’s not my default browser anymore), Firefox Focus (quick lookups), Arc (haven’t tested it much yet tho)

Desktop: Brave and Safari (for work), Arc and Firefox (for personal browsing)

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Waterfox (Firefox fork), since it lets me put tabs below address bar natively, without a css file, and Vivaldi for sites that need Chromium.

[–] lightrush 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chrome. The browser is still great and Google's already in my bedroom. I donate to Mozilla Foundation. I secretly hope that Mozilla takes over a Chromium fork.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mull on phone, hardened Firefox on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Recently switched back to Firefox because of the Manifest V3 thing and uBlock on Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Currently using vanilla Firefox with https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to make the tabs look like actual tabs rather than weird floaty bubbles.

Used to use Chromium, but switched because they made it so that sites could autoplay videos in response to "user interactions", whatever that means.

TBH, not that happy with the current state of browsers; too much telemetry and not enough customizability.

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