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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€“] Legolution@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Also Firefox.

[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox all day. Been using it since the early 2000s

[โ€“] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox. I used to be an avid Chrome user, but the domination of Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc) is scary. It essentially gives Google control over what happens on the internet. So I switched to Firefox and it's been a great browser ever since

[โ€“] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Firefox

An established foundation with good interests and goals running it (unfortunately it's not quite that clear cut - but the best, closest). The source of free software development. Extensive feature set. Robustness.

I haven't seen the need to use a fork, and like and prefer the idea of using and supporting the one that's investing in the engine development - even if it's largely only through free use. (Using forks does not support them this way.)

When briefly using chrome dev tools I've always preferred and went back to Firefox dev tools for web development.

Sharing my data with an independent org like Mozilla feels much better and safer than with Google. The services are free software and could be replaced if it ever need be. Still, Mozilla is big enough to expect stability across time.

Tech wise there's not much difference between the three big players Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.

If it weren't Firefox I'd feel more comfortable with Edge than Chrome.

[โ€“] Blake@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

If Firefox isn't available, the next best choice would probably be de-googled Chromium (note that Chromium is not necessarily fully de-googled by default) or Safari. Edge is just Chrome plus Microsoft.

[โ€“] ShustOne@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Firefox + ublock origin

Firefox for the past 19 years. No need to change at this point.

[โ€“] RMiddleton@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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€“] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] drifty@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year 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€“] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brave, thinking about using firefox, and degoogle more

[โ€“] nihth@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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€“] Daevan@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Recently switched from brave to Firefox+ublock mobile and PC.

Any list of suggested extensions?

[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Libredirect if you are interested in private frontends to youtube, twitter and such

Violentmonkey if you want to automate websites

Singlefile

Firefox multi-account containers (yes this is an addon), and temporary containers

[โ€“] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

on mobile am preparing to move to iceraven

[โ€“] Auzy@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep going back to Chrome, but back on Firefox. The problem is all the webpages Firefox tends to break unfortunately :(

[โ€“] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[โ€“] 1984@lemmy.today -1 points 1 year ago

Firefox, always have been Firefox for me.