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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?
What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?
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.
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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.
mattdamon Well, if Mark Watney Matt Damon, the man that survived on Mars, uses Chrome then clearly everyone else should too. Case closed 
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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.
JoshStrobl Firefox is best followed by Chrome and Opera in my humble opinion.
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' 
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.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to sensitive operations, like banking, CRA/IRS, etc, they only accept Firefox, Chrome, etc.
Same with Netflix.
Currently, we can have several profiles for different tasks. This is what I do with firefox and brave, email profile, shopping profile, streaming profile etc. With specific addons and parameters in each one. It works very well and avoids mixing everything up. Only firefox is not very user-friendly with its profile management, which is not accessible from the toolbar. Brave is doing very well, several profiles for different shopping sites, streaming profile with the windscribe vpn addon (I find chromium is more efficient for streaming).
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elfprince Unfortunately, when it comes to sensitive operations, like banking, CRA/IRS, etc, they only accept Firefox, Chrome, etc.
Same with Netflix.
That seems strange to me. I use Vivaldi for banking, stock brokerage, Netflix, BritBox, Disney+ and much more. It's what powers my streaming machine. It's even better than I expected.
For a long time I'd used two different browsers (Firefox and Opera), in two separate workspaces on my Windows laptop, each with assigned tasks. It used to be Firefox for news, Twitter, broker, and banking, and Opera for ad hoc browsing (motorcycle racing, soccer, F1 and such).
Turns out, when one starts Vivaldi, it not only remembers the sites from the last session, but even remembers the workspace where it was last started. Thus, when last used in workspace 2, for example, it restarts with the tabs that were previously open in workspace 2. When restarted in workspace 3, it remembers the tabs that were last open in workspace 3. I don't know if that's by design, but it works that way for me.
Formerly I used Opera because I found its "speed dial" feature very useful. Recently, I've discovered that Vivaldi offers that as well. These days I have even less reason to use any other browser.
In my experience, most browsers simply change to the instance that's already open when started a second time. Given this useful characteristic of Vivaldi, I no longer need to use two different browsers, but just two instances of Vivaldi. And I totally eschew Chrome, because Google already has plenty of personal information about me. They don't need any more.
I've actually transitioned to Vivaldi amazingly. As some may know I've been a Chrome fanboy since their first testing releases all those years ago. I'm enjoying Vivaldi now that I've got it tweaked a bit!
Justin Sounds exactly like me. Curious what tweaks you've made to Vivaldi maybe worth mentioning here? Other then just a few Chrome store extensions, I don't think I've really needed to tweak Vivaldi much, other than making sure it syncs everything, having a customized start page of my favorite websites, etc.
Waterfox
Scotty-Trees Wish there was a command to say what's not default in config. 
- I turned off coloured tabs
- Customised the theme fit in with Arc GTK theme
- Disabled middle mouse button to show previews on click the bottom of a tab (purely to stop me continously doing it by accident)
- Changed Ctrl L to Alt D for accessing address bar (Chrome default, so used to it)
- Disabled download notifications
- Turned on sync (I'm really liking their sync, Google's takes forever, not sure why, Vivaldi's is super fast)
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, oh and I turned on dark mode for the interface.
An interesting Firefox vs Opera 'showdown'. https://www.cloudwards.net/opera-vs-firefox/
I think I will stay with my trusted Firefox.