What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

mATZ

Firefox all the way.

Quinix

Mainly Brave, and now and then Firefox.

maverick1

Firefox for normal usage and Chrome for chrome-exclusive tasks!

[deleted]

brent Have a look at Palemoon.

olivir

Vivaldi on Solus and even on Android ! 😃

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-goes-mobile-android/

sund0wn

olivir Sorry but without an adblocker on Andoid I won't use the browser as a whole across all the OSes I use on a daily basis. Shame.

olivir

sund0wn It will come but no matter for me I use pi-hole
https://pi-hole.net

Nycticorax

My former self would not believe this but I am looking forward to trying out the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge, to be ported to Linux if my sources are correct. It's the lightest and fastest chromium browser I've seen so far. If you must browser Google biased websites (such as the online documentation for many Google developer services, Youtube and Gmails) it's much faster than Firefox.

[deleted]

Nycticorax This is for you...

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3080937/microsoft-edge-makes-130-requests-to-almost-50-endpoints-when-first-launched

Nycticorax

[deleted] Are you implying that Edge is not being respectful of one's privacy, hence that it's not a good browser? 😃 Anyone who's not been living under a rock for the past 15 years knows that the only way of safeguarding one's privacy above anything else should use only Opera or Firefox with the appropriate extensions and tweaks. This does not mean that there is no value in developping web browsers which, on other account than just privacy, such as speed, do exceptionnally well (admittedly I am yet to see benchmarks to substantiate this claim, but my personal experience is that Edge Chromium has no rival in speed).

Nycticorax

olivir Very interesting software. Does it impact performances somehow? I see that it requires channelling all traffic via a static IP, so it would require a middleware for routing right?

olivir

Nycticorax It's a good software, extra light. I installed it on a raspberry pi 2, I can't see the impact on this low-spec machine. In contrast it's efficient for my home network. Particularly for smartphone users connected to my wifi. Those devices are sh*thole full of trackers. Pi-hole blocks a lot.

mattdamon

I choose Chrome. I like the database of extensions. Ability to update teh broswer manually https://rocketfiles.com/articles/how-to-update-chrome as you wish and use some other features like the great set of syncronised Google servies.

JoshStrobl

mattdamon Well, if ~~Mark Watney~~ Matt Damon, the man that survived on Mars, uses Chrome then clearly everyone else should too. Case closed 😛

brent

v3l0ct

brent so creepy, lol.

Nycticorax

Okay, so I just came back to say this to all people I told Firefox was the best in town. It's really not. I had to code and/or test several relatively JS intensive web apps recently and any chromium browser just demolished Firefox in terms of responsiveness and fluidity. The performance differences don't really show up in the few benchmarks I've conducted but this is mainly due to the fact that the differences are about the way Firefox runs JS (which functions call it prioritizes and how it deals with small segments of code) rather than about the total duration of parsing and interpreting JS. Me =>>> Opera.

cynical13

Nycticorax I've been walking back from Firefox as well and using Brave more. It works well on all of my devices and I appreciate the focus on security and privacy (though I've read some people may know more than me on these notes). If Opera was still a Norwegian company, I'd use it again. Their security is still good.

DJSupertel

JoshStrobl Firefox is best followed by Chrome and Opera in my humble opinion.

synth-ruiner

Firefox.

I quite like Epiphany/Gnome Web, it has some nice features like saving a web page as a 'desktop application' (of course, native applications are far superior, but not always available) but it seems to struggle with some websites so I can't really use it for the bulk of my browsing. I'm not really a fan of GTK HeaderBars either.

So mostly Firefox but with some Epiphany 'desktop applications' 😁

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