What Is Your Preferred Web Browser?

GSingh1994

GSingh1994 Google chrome because Firefox doesn't support PWA

I use Vivaldi but I find the PWA implementation in browsers overall to be lacking.

I use a program called WebCatalog. It turns any website into a functional desktop client. It integrates certain extensions (like DarkReader) into the apps that you can use to manipulate the look and feel.
The free version allows you to make two free apps from sites. The premium version allows unlimited apps to be made. I have something like 50 or 60 apps and I use them in some combination every day.

The only downside is a lack of integrated password manager.

I use Firefox with a bunch of add ons. Part of it is just because I am an old geezer and I have been using Firefox since about version 1.5 if I remember correctly.

Mostly it is Firefox, but now trying Brave. Need lighter one, also available on Linux and Android

MarkoB Mostly it is Firefox, but now trying Brave

Don't pass up a chance to try Vivaldi!

DanFromWinterpeg I was using it when it was called Phoenix but they had to change the name because of the Phoenix BIOS manufacturer... it then became Firebird but then again they had to change the name because Firebird is the name of a database... it then becomes Firefox and was released in v1.0 if I recall correctly.

Thunderbird didn't had to change its name otherwise we'd have got Thunderfox I guess

kyrios Which is odd since Thunderbird in the USA has a 100 year history of making Americans cheap, rot-gut wine: it's synonymous with being down and out and the kind of vintage best drank on a park bench at 7am (I've been told).
Maybe the company was too wasted to sue Mozilla?

brent And don't forget the Ford Thunderbird

EbonJaeger The TBird wine company has really let some opportunities go, haven't they?

Vivaldi and use Page Actions <> Invert for night and Sepia to break up daytime reading. Best part is tab specific.

brent Yeah but it is a totally different field. Phoneix & firebird are both active in IT, just like Firefox.
Lotus is a brand of luxury cars, but where I live it is also a brand of biscuits and of toilet paper. Pretty obvious these brands have no relationship with each other although they share the same name.

ARiosProjekt Brave is my favourite browser since I discovered it. I used Chrome for years and Firefox when I switched to Linux. It blocks annoying ads by default. Plays every media on the internet with no problem and supports webapp making I like to use. I don't care about their cryptocurrency they are giving for their own ads, because they are not very generous.

I just found out about yet another reason to love Vivaldi. Their new Tab Stack feature can not only be set to use two lines for the address bar, but the stacks can be renamed. Thus, all your financial sites (banks, stocks, etc.) can be put into one stack, and that stack renamed to "Financials". Formula 1, MotoGP, WorlldSBK, and MotoAmerica can be stacked, and that stack renamed to "Racing". Solus forum, Vivaldi forum, etc. can be stacked and renamed to "Forums".

With the renamed tab stacks on the first row, and the expanded contents (links) in the second row (the way this feature works in Vivaldi), that creates a simple menu. For example, you can click on "Financial" in the top row, and those links appear in the second row. This has allowed me to change three of my workspaces to just one named "Browser", without any change needed in my browsing workflow.

This is trivial to set up in the Vivaldi settings, and if you also choose the setting to start out with the previous session, closing Vivaldi and restarting it will preserve your setup during reboots.

WetGeek I know, the more I use Vivaldi...Brave crypto has a certain creepy element to it. I have a ledger Nano X, big fan of crypto but not sure I like the way Brave is implementing and preventing all ads by default does not always help those I want to support. It is clean and lightning quick but they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar one too many times. TOR, great but super slow. Firefox, love it, especially with containers, but nowhere near the overall functionality. There are a bunch of others that serve their purpose - I occasionally cruise on Midori.

Vivaldi's latest commitment to privacy sealed the deal.

You guys are talking about Vivaldi so I installed it and the tab features are awesome I must say. It even has it's own email client, rss feed reader, contacts and callendar. Everything easily accessible from the side panel. There's also a website 'tiling' feature (cool if you got a crazy widescreen display) and website panels. Compared to Vivaldi Brave or Chrome look like a 'hay cart' of a browser. And there's ad blocking by default.

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I also would love to use firefox. But I think vivaldi spoiled me. All the features like tab tiling, tab stacks, mail client, calendar, side bar, custom themes etc... that I can't live without now. I just wish if vivaldi would have enough resources to make a firefox fork that had all of these features (I guess that will never happen )

[deleted] there's no tracking protection in chrome

I doubt if anyone here will argue for Chrome over Firefox, but it's a mistake to dismiss all other chromium-based browsers just because Chrome is one. They only share a rendering engine, but apart from that, they differ a lot.

Still, your decision affects only you, so it's a personal choice that nobody can deny you. The important thing is that we're all free to choose and use the browser that best fits our needs. And the only way you'll ever know which one does that better than any others is to try those other browsers and decide for yourself.

I'm not a tin foil mad hatter to be overly crazy about privacy. I really appreciate that Linux and it's software is far more secure than Windoze and MadOze. I don't like to be data mined by corparate low-life, and I JUST HATE ADS!!! When obnoxious banners take my screen space, or stupid-a** videos want me to buy something, try another retarded android game for one-finger monkeys, or Amazon wants me to work in their hell-hole warehouse I feel like im in They Live! movie by John Carpenter, I wanna go on a rampage with a firehose and flush those yuppies from the surface of the Earth! I wanna be like GG Allin and toss poo on people while I'm naked with cold-shrunk penis!

WetGeek This is trivial to set up in the Vivaldi settings, and if you also choose the setting to start out with the previous session, closing Vivaldi and restarting it will preserve your setup during reboots.

If this made you that excited.. that is like, so last year. Just WAIT until you see what Command Chains can do.

Watch this Youtube video.

I am not even going to explain Command Chains. Just watch that video and be blown away.

Most. Awesome. Browser. Ever.