What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

Soopyyy

Switched to Vivaldi because of this thread. Loving it so far.

dbarron

I had switched to Vivaldi for several weeks due to this thread, but I kept getting signed out of websites and having to relogin, not every time I rebooted, but frequently enough to be annoying, so I have made the transition back to FireFox. I also used a website or two that had issues with Vivaldi oddly. Shame since I rather liked vivaldi, but I realize I do about 1/2 or more of what I do on the PC in the browser and convenience is key.

AlucardNoir

Justin Chromium is Chrome without the Google branding. Not without the Google "goodies" and dependencies, just without the branding. And since Google are the guys paying for the development of Chrome I'm willing bet Chormium is developed based on what Google wants Chrome to be, as opposed to google adapting what chrome is to their needs in making Chrome.

If I was to compare Chromium to anything it would be the VS Code source code. You can use M$ VS Code and Google Chrome, or you can use the open source VS code and the open source Chromium. Except the money comes from M$ and Google for VS Code and Chrome. Basically, if Google, and now MS want Crome and the new Edge to have some new feature, it's Chromium that gets it. Same thing goes for removing some feature or replacing it as is the case with the api used by uBlock and Privacy Badger on chromium based browsers.

Justin

AlucardNoir Like I said, Chrome is based on Chromium. The fact that Chromium is 95% (guess) made by Google employees means yes they will get what they want.

yumenetwork

AlucardNoir google is the main chromium's contributor.

CraigMatze

I am a Firefox -dark theme user, with AdBlock, No locations/whitelisting allowed and DuckDuckGo for searches.

AlucardNoir

CraigMatze Is that AdBlock as in AdBlock or just generally adblocking? cause AdBlock has been frowned upon for quite some time. And with good reason.

LinuxLounge

There days I move between browsers, but generally I stick with either Brave or Firefox, I'm using Firefox mostly though

brent

Does there exist such a creature (outside of firefox) that is FOSS-based and can keep you secure i.e., accommodate add-ons, advanced settings, etc?

Epihany, vivaldi, etc make me feel very vulnerable, as does falkon. You can configure Very Little in these browsers and security add-ons are non-existent last time I played.

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brent Have a look at Palemoon.

CraigMatze

AlucardNoir Yes AdBlock with preferred sites whitelisted.
Am I missing something ?

AlucardNoir

CraigMatze You might want to look into either uBlock Origins (note the Origins, it's important), Privacy badger, AdGuard or, if you're so inclined uBlock Matrix. AdBlock and AdBlock Plus haven't had the cleanest of records, nor the best performance when it comes to their tasks. And then there's the whole Acceptable Ads debacle that started a few years ago. If you're OK with allowing certain ads I'd rather suggest you moved to either FF with Privacy Badger or Brave since Brave doesn't stop first party ads and has both HTTPS everywhere and Privacy badger inbuilt. Otherwise, just move from AdBlock to either AdGuard, uBlock Origin, or, again if you're willing to tolerate some ads Privacy badger.

I get it, AdBlock Plus and AdBlock are the oldest extensions of their kind, but it's been a very long time since they were the best. And now? now they're in bed with advertisers. And this coming from someone that uses Brave whilst fully aware Brave wants to reach the same spot AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are currently in.

CraigMatze

AlucardNoir Thanks for the info, switched over to AdGuard. 👍️

catfishsushi

FireFox has not been letting the Alerts from StreamLabs through in spite of turning/tweaking everything. So, i had to install Opera and it works fine, I did note however, that Opera uses the FFMPEG-Chromium version instead of the newer secure one.

GeertVerheyde

Firefox and Opera. Firefox als common browser, Opera where all Social Media are centralised.

Lucien_Lachance

i forgot to mention i use waterfox for twitter only, this cos it works with some essential firefox addons, and the reason i dont use a separate firefox profile for twitter is that i havent figured out how to make devilspie2 distinguish between my regular firefox profiles and a firefox twitter profile - i like twitter to be a narrow window on the right and regular firefox to take up much more of the screen (devilspie2 can be used to make windows/apps appear in a fixed position and size)

one_good_eye

Using waterfox in an appimage currently because it isn't in the repo, not asking for it to be added but it would be nice.

Waterfox home page: https://www.waterfox.net/

Waterfox appimage: https://appimage.github.io/Waterfox/

Reason for using Waterfox over Firefox is Waterfox takes out the telemetry mozilla has, never have been a fan of data collection/telemetry (looking at you Microsoft and Google). Also Waterfox is using the esr release of Firefox which means not a whole lot can go wrong, it gets the security updates but not the feature updates, esr 68 is on the horizon. Waterfox is already working on their esr 68 variant. https://www.waterfox.net/blog/waterfox-56.2.9-release-download/

EDIT: addons are https Everywhere, Decentraleyes, uBlock Origin, uMatrix (this thing will block about anything) and all of this came form the firefox addons store which is nice to have.

stalebrim

one_good_eye As far as I know, the Solus build of Firefox has also telemetry off.

evert

one_good_eye
You are right. I just downloaded Waterfox. It's great. Thanks.

alawi3d

I use Chrome just for history sync I can't stress enough how much I use it between my devices if there is any browser that have the same feature along side password sync between PC and Android device i'd be happy to jump to it and leave Chrome behind.

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alawi3d Firefox (but i use Bitwarden for my passwords)!

alawi3d

[deleted] ohh so if I browse through my phone it will immediately sync up with my desktop?

Harvey

alawi3d
Firefox Sync which is built into firefox supports syncing of:

Bookmarks
Open Tabs
Logins
History
Addons
Preferences

You'll have to create a firefox sync account and install firefox on your mobile (available for ios and android).

In my experience you have to click the sync button manually on your desktop version of firefox (two clicks). Goto your phone and select "Your library" > Synchronised devices > swipe down to refresh. And you'll get all your open tabs.

I'm sure Firefox Sync's automatically but for me I found it too slow to update, so for the best experience I click the sync button on whatever device I'm using to switch between devices.

[deleted]

alawi3d Also you have the advantage of all the addons firefox has to offer - privacy related or just plain adblocker, its good stuff!

I have to admit tho that browsing with Chrome is better, the multi tab gestures etc are really nice but no addon support and the privacy stuff makes me use Firefox anyways!

alawi3d

Harvey ok Nice!! I've been out of loop about Firefox since the last time I used it 😅
I'll use it from today and build up my bookmarks, password data from ground zero but it's worth it leaving Chrome 😁 thanks alot

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