I swear this question comes up everyday in Lemmy π .
Firefox, I just use Firefox because, it works, it has enough privacy measures, and everyone is looking at the codebase, something that cannot be said about most (if not all) forks.
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Any issue with websites breaking? Since sites only care about chromium support nowadays
Not op, but I've yet to encounter a website that doesn't work with Firefox. (In the last 5 years)
there are plenty, you just don't happen to use them
Technically true
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I've had a couple sites break but idk if that's because of Firefox or because of my privacy add ons.
The only broken thing is very specific stuff like Slack calls. In fact, it's the only broken thing I've seen in a long while. Also fuck Slack.
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Firefox with a handful of extensions, same on phone.
Last time a site "needed" chromium based a user agent switch did the miracle...
Just Firefox, I like the way it looks, and it's open source.
firefox on desktop: to keep away a browser monopoly for another day.
iceraven on mobile: more extensions.
Zen browser. Its a browser that looks like arc browser but its based on Firefox and has tracking removed. Its really nice. They also have their own theme system to change how the browser looks and acts
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Librewolf is pretty good, i like having privacy features out of the box
Firefox for most things, but I keep a copy of Vivaldi installed because sometimes my firefox setup breaks capcha.
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Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !
It's a Firefox fork btw
Firefox because of extensions on mobile, literally the only browser capable of that
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Mullvad Browser when I'm on my Desktop, which is basically the Tor Browser but without the Tor network. The Mullvad Browser is instead designed to be used with a VPN.
Vanadium when I'm on my phone, which is is a hardened variant of Chromium providing enhanced privacy and security, similar to how GrapheneOS compares to AOSP.
And when I'm at work or using any other computer I try to mainly use Firefox.
Librewolf for anything that does work, Brave for anything that works only on Chromium based, and Mullvad for all the crazy.
On Android it's Mull and Mulch.
Instead of Mulch I would recommend Cromite. It is fully open source (free of proprietary dependencies unlike Brave and Mulch), has anti-fingerprinting (unlike Mulch), and has built-in ad-blocking. Browser comparison table made by the Developer of Mulch: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
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Mull on mobile, mullvad and Firefox on desktop
Librewolf
LibreWolf.
Firefox with ublock origin for both desktop and mobile.
Those two programs alone block out like 75% of the annoyances and dangers of the modern internet. Near-complete removal of ads and a couple nice healthy adware and malware guards on top of that.
Add on a VPN and a few more Firefox extensions and I feel that I can browse the net anxiety-free.
Firefox then additional hardening through arkenfox.js, minimal extensions - uBlock + Bitwarden.
Edge isn't private so you have plenty of ways to improve
If you want to stick with Chromium-based browsers, you could try Vivaldi. I am a Firefox user myself but Vivaldi is my backup browser for those rare occasions where I have issues. 95% of the browser is open source, with the remaining 5% being comprised of the closed source UI. Vivaldi has a pretty reasonable privacy policy, an inbuilt ad-blocker and is a 100% employee owned company. It supports all major operating systems and has a sync feature so you could use it as your main browser across all devices if you wanted.
Firefox with Betterfox user script. Then from there is a bunch privacy focused/oriented extensions. I also harden my DNS with custom host files from StevenBlack. I also point all my devices to NextDNS as another catch and also to standardize things as I use NextDNS to manage my kids access to the world.
I do need to create a private VPN (of my own) still so my mobile devices can be setup behind StevenBlack host entries.
Hardened Firefox on my PC and Waterfox on my phone. Reason: mostly because I have been using Firefox for a long time and I want to stay away from Chromioum-based browsers (but not out of privacy concerns :) ).
Librewolf + uBlock Origin on desktop. Mull + uBlock Origin on mobile.
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Firefox with plugins. If we want there to be anything but Chromium and Safari in the future it's simply what needs to be done. Forks of Firefox will disappear when Firefox does ...
Just Firefox, and gnome web sometimes.
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