what web browser do you use and why?

Firefox because it's one of the last browsers against the Chromium monopoly.

Also UBlock Origin is wayy better on Firefox, even before Google forced their version of Manifest v3 on all Chromium based browsers.

Firefox, and ill continue to use it for as long as possible. No thanks Chromium.

Firefox on desktop and mobile. Better privacy and more trustworthy than a browser tied to a billion dollar corp.

Firefox, on my desktops and my phone. Several reasons:

1. It's relatively trustworthy.
2. It uses the only non-WebKit-derived browser engine still in active development. Monoculture is bad.
3. It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.

Firefox gang 😎 I don't get the hate, the browser has been great for decades

I use Firefox.

It's 90% because I remember the days of Internet Explorer and how they had a monopoly and could do whatever they liked - and they did. It was pretty common to have to write two versions of code so that it would work on IE as well as other browsers.

These days Edge, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, pretty much all the major browsers except Firefox all use the Chromium engine, which puts them in a similar position as IE were in during the 90s and early 2000s. It scares me, so I use Firefox.

firefox.

nearly every other browser out there except Safari is just chromium with a coat of paint, and i am not a fan of monopolies.

Firefox on PC and Android. DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now

PC: Firefox (without the arkenson js yet) Android: Firefox too ^^

I really like that Firefox is one of the rare breeds on the mobile scene which provides some browser extensions too.

Firefox for me.

I used to be a Chrome guy for ages but made the switch a few years back after I noticed Chrome was getting a bit bloated.

Firefox for personal. Chrome for work.

Firefox, and have done for the past 20 years

Firefox. Fascinating what a bubble of Firefox user is active here. Should be way different with most statistics show a lot more chrome users.

On desktop: Firefox On Android: Firefox

The extension support is the killer feature, and the open source+supporting a diverse web ecosystem is a close second.

I just use Vanilla Firefox, I use chrome for work but all my personal stuff on Firefox, left chrome after there was talk of stopping ad blockers.

I know all you nerds use firefox, but i'm still on the plebian chrome

Firefox Gang, checking in.

Firefox mostly. I want multiple rendering engines to be viable. Plus it has the plug ins I want on Android and still syncs to desktop. The one problem is chromecasting to the tv from windows. I wish there was a plug in that would let me do that.

Been using Firefox since it came out 18 years ago. Tried a few others for a bit, but always ended up back with the fox. Using it on all my computers and devices. Tried all kinds of plug-ins, currently using ublock, no-script, privacy badger, bloody vikings!, Bitwarden and.. I guess that's more or less it.

I do have to use Edge a bit for work, just because of some systems that doesn't really work on Firefox and I don't want to use Chrome.

Firefox still has some integrity unlike chrome and its clones.

Firefox, for tree style tabs, and to push back against homogenization of the web.

@Bicyclejohn Firefox

Tor Browser, because my threat model is passive surveillance capitalism so anti-tracking is important.

Else, Firefox (vanilla).

Firefox, I hate chrome lol

Personal use: LibreWolf (Firefox fork) for desktop and Fennec for mobile.

Work PC: Edge (No options here)

Firefox, I mean, its pretty much the default considering where we are

I use Firefox (and I've used it since it was called phoenix, and I've used the free software mozilla suit before that).

BUT I've been very unhappy about the corporate leadership of the project for a long time. I don't trust them at all. They regularly do user hostile shit like ads and tracking and endorsing DRM, then act surprised by user backlash and backtrack partially, only to try again a couple of months later.

Many people who work there are clearly shit-brained corporate silicon valley types, and the leadership most likely cynical money-grubbing grifters.

I hope the various free software degoogled chromium forks all come together to make a good browser. A browser that works on both Linux and Android, that can sync all the stuff between both, and which has no tracking and good ad blocking.

Librewolf

Firefox. after the manifestv2 deprecation was approaching for chome I packed up and switched to firefox. I rely on uBlock Origin too much to be lest stuck on a browser it doesn't run on. also the pleasant surprise of full extension support on the nightly android version was a nice touch!

Vanilla Firefox here as well.

I have to say it's amazing that everyone is actually staying on topic mentioning their favorite browsers and why without resorting to calling each other idiots for using some browsers and not others.

I use the regular Firefox with some addons. I've tried various browsers in the past and used them as my default browser for a while, but I always ended up going back to Firefox. Now I'm sticking with it.

Firefox.

I used Chrome for the longest time, but I started having a problem that I thought was Chrome related so I installed Firefox to see if it solved my issue. It didn´t, and I eventually discovered the actual issue of my problem, but I ended up liking Firefox too much and stayed.

Firefox cuz it uses like no ram and it's completely open source while being detached from the chromium ecosystem

I have been using Firefox since 2005. Back then it was over 9000 kilometres ahead of Internet Explorer and was in so many ways better browser. These days it stands as the biggest alternative to Chromium and Google's efforts of gobbling up the web. I don't see any reasons to switch.

LibreWolf. It's Firefox without the adware and sponsored bullshit. I can only take so many "Sponsored Link", "Recommended by Pocket", and MOZILLA VPN OMG!1!1! random popups before I declare a piece of software adware, and Mozilla has crossed that line. LibreWolf also has a bunch of privacy stuff, some of which I turn off because I think it goes a bit too far and breaks some websites.

!firefox@lemmy.ml all the way!!

Firefox across mobile and desktop. Tried some more obscure browsers, but keep coming back to Firefox.

LibreWolf (and Ungoogled Chromium) on Linux, Vanadium (and Mull) on phone. Parenthetical ones are what I use when my main browsers refuse to load something.

Historically Firefox but I've recently been trying out Brave and really like it. I especially like brave on mobile because it automatically strips all the ads out of YouTube.

Librewolf and ungoogle chromium for the occasional websites that only works well with chrome.

vivaldi cus its just too gorgeous and so many things packed in face with heart eyes

Firefox on PC, Mull on phone and Brave on tablet (until Firefox has tab bar for tablet UI). I can't browse the internet with awful ads, so ublock origin is a must.

Lmao I guess I’ll be the only person to say Safari. It’s fast, privacy focused, and secure. I don’t care about extensions and I like the UI.

Firefox. It's faster and more lightweight than chrome and has bigger fonts. I find chrome's label's eye-straining. Also it's not owned by Google or Microsoft. DuckDuckGo on mobile because I don't like the mobile version of Firefox, and I can delete all cookies using the fire button (On my laptop Cookie AutoDelete does that for me.)

Firefox user here, switched from Chrome around 3-4 years ago after getting fed up with chrome (don't remember why exactly).

Been pretty happy with FF since then

librewolf on PC, Mull on my android.

Firefox. And I even installed Thunderbird again after all these years, since they are going to have a UI refresh this summer. It's a very nice nostalgic feeling to once again use a local email client.

If the new theme is good, it's going to be a keeper. :)

Firefox because its pre-installed on pretty much every Linux distro I'd want to try. I've used it for a long time, back in version 2.x. Then I tried out chrome for quite awhile but their pushback against adblockers made me migrate back to firefox. Haven't regretted it!

On desktop I use librewolf, and occasionally vivaldi when I need to access something that requires chromium.

On mobile I use the duckduckgo browser, which has a lot of the features built in that I would require an add-ons with firefox. I used to use fennec, but it had the problem of being bloated with all of the default options on desktop like the sign in, which I do not like, and at the same time being anemic with only like 5 add-ons.

Also, fennec really annoyed me by hijacking anything that required a browser, even if one was built into a program I was using, or was a secondary option. I had the most annoying time trying to sign into SoundCloud, until I finally deleted fennec and I was presented with a normal, native login screen.

I use firefox because I feel like it's one of the best browsers out there. Brave is close second. Brave although doesn't have enough freedom while switching from one brave browser to another. I mean, firefox allows you to sync your data online (I trust mozilla, so this ain't a problem), but Brave always has been bad in this regard.

Also, I like the fact that firefox is not chrome and idk, I just like the look and feel of firefox

Vanilla firefox-esr from the Debian repo + TOR browser when required. I've flirted with others but keep coming back to FF.

Ever since I got my first laptop when I was a young teenager it's been Firefox. With Google exploring deleting blockers like uBlock Origin I see no reason to switch.

Firefox most of the time, portable/standalone chromium for the rare occasion where Firefox doesn't work.

cough chrome. It just works. I've been sucked into the g-verse of things. I was a long time f-fox user but there was a particular print to pdf instance that I couldn't do any longer on f-fox, so I just surrendered

Firefox + Librefox on a PC, Brave on my phone. At worka Firefox as well.

mull on mobile and firefox on desktop, ungoogled chromium if i really have to.

@Bicyclejohn I use Firefox because of its features and better performance.

You will hate me for this, but I use chrome and chromium mostly on my PC. It is just easier. Chromium being less spy-y than chrome.

@Bicyclejohn Firefox, whatever version is default on LM😁E, with containers, NoScript and Ublock for privacy purposes

I use Firefox wherever I can will continue to do so in the forseeable feature. Why? Because Firefox is currently the biggest actor in FOSS web browser space. It makes most sense to support them.

Firefox, Epiphany web browser and midori. When I'm using windows I use Firefox.

Firefox and Firefox.

I also use qutebrowser on one machine and I've been using Pulse which is a Firefox fork that is rather nice.

Honestly I'm just stick of all the Chromium browsers out there - stop giving Google such a massive lead in everything.

Vivaldi, because it has amazing tab management.

Vivaldi, for it's customization and all the additional features, like RSS feed reader, Email client, Notes, Calendar, Reminders, Alarm, Translator...

I get that most people just want to be able to use the browser to surf the web, but I like everything that it offers, and I use majority of it's features.

I also use Firefox on Windows, Linux and Android.

Firefox, because a) open source, b) ad blocking, and c) fuck Google and other corporate overlords.

Firefox or Vivaldi on pc & notebook, Vanadium & Fennec on Android - Grapheneos.

Question: what do people have against chromium? I understand not liking Chrome specifically, but what's the issue with non-Google chromium? I use Brave on my PC and phone, and Edge for work.

As for Firefox, I love and appreciate what they are doing and what they stand for. I tried using it and had one bad experience, where I was doing some web dev and encountered a bug that drove me crazy trying to fix, only to find it was a bug with FF itself. So I switched to Brave for development, and then I liked it and haven't switched back. So, not to say that one little bug "ruined" FF for me, I just haven't had any reason to stop using Brave.

Safari for everything. I'm deep in the apple ecosystem. Edge when I'm on my PC, once in a blue moon.

I use Brave. It's not perfect but I like the built-in adblock and the crypto stuff is an added bonus.

Tor browser and librewolf, but I still have firefox installed.

Mostly Safari since I am part of the golden cage anyway. If something does not work there, I fall back to Firefox.

Firefox is such a great browser. I like that it allows all of the extensions and adblockers.

I went and checked and have discovered I'm the resident browser hipster.

Ecosia.

It's a reskinned version of chrome or chromium or something where your default search engine is Ecosia. The Ecosia search engine is just Bing reskinned and the ad revenue you generate goes towards planting trees!

I've been using it for quite a while, I'm probably responsible for a couple hundred new trees at this point, if not more. They keep a running tally for you but I've used the search engine on multiple devices and haven't bothered to see if you can synch the tally across all of them.

The entire project is up to 175,500,000 trees so far.

Firefox user here :/ The only extension that I really use is the tree based tabs, but I wouldn't mind dropping that.

Trying to push over to qutebrowser because it fits a lot better with my setup.

Didn't know mullvad had a browser though, will have to check that out for sure.

Fennic on the phone and Firefox on the desktop.

I just recently switched to Arc, and it is soo good. Really changing my workflow for the better. So nice to experience a product where people have opiniated ideas about how something can be done differently. It might not be for everyone, but damn its something for me.

I'm using Vivaldi rn and so far happy with it

Firefox most of the time, replaced by Chrome on one of my configurations, where Firefox would lead to graphic card freezes from time to time. Edge for Teams at work. Opera once in a while because I am nostalgic of the fantastic Opera mini browser on early versions of Android.

Also, Firefox on Android or Fennec on phones without Google Play.

PC: Qutebrowser (nice, quick, and good native keybinds) iOS: Ecosia (fork of Firefox app that I think is better for my use considering I use Ecosia as my search engine)

Firefox on desktop, and DuckDuckGo on the iPhone I'm stuck with :)

on desktop - firefox

on android - mull (hardened firefox with telemetry and proprietary blobs removed)

for several reasons: its extremely customizable, open source, extensions like ublock origin work best on it, great privacy, not chromium based (fuck google and a browser monoculture), etc.

mozilla isn't perfect and i don't agree with all of their decisions for sure, but despite that, overall firefox ftw

Brave on both PC and mobile, ad and cookie blocking built in, backed by EFF, and (for better or worse) Chromium-based so it's well-supported on sites like YouTube that take some animistic measures to lower Firefox quality of life

After a long time of using Chromium browsers (from Chrome to Brave to Edge to Vivaldi) I ended up back at good old Firefox again. On Mac I just use either Safari or Firefox. There's been a time where I was particularly unhappy with Firefox, as at the time it felt sluggish to me. Now it's the exact opposite. I've become very frustrated with how sluggish Chromium browsers can be. While I appreciate the efforts of the Vivaldi crew I think I'm just happier with Firefox.

Wish I could figure out why clicking on my downloads in the download list doesn't open them, though (I'm on KDE Neon).

Chrome. The browser is still great and Google's already in my bedroom. I donate to Mozilla Foundation. I secretly hope that Mozilla takes over a Chromium fork.

Mostly edge

It’s quite decent in terms of battery usage

And BingAI occasionally becomes useful for research

Good ole Firefox for me! Can't say it's ever really let me down, and I've never had a problem finding extensions for it either (which other friends of mine say that they can't...)

And while I don't do a lot of web development, every now and then I'll dabble into it and FF's dev tools are pretty nice as well.

librewolf on the desktop. works for me. Came from vivaldi, which is too big for my old laptop setup (takes ages to load). Using fennec on android. But, recently i needed a browser for android which allows a bookmark.html file to be imported (camera froze with sync) and couldn't find one. everything today MUST go over the sync (cloud).

Brave - works mobile and desktop for me.

Vivaldi, mostly because of the “quick commands” keyboard navigation. Opens an Alfred / Spotlight style input, type what you want and jump right to that feature or toggle or website or whatever. Love me some good keyboard based nav. Definitely one to check out for anyone used to working a lot with Sublime.

I had Firefox running with custom CSS for a long while but then (on two different machines) I got a weird bug that increasingly led websites to time out while loading. Had to wait out the time out (reloading during didn't help) and then after time out it immediately loaded after an F5.

I switched to Vivaldi after that because it could be customized to pretty much exactly how I had my Firefox with minimal custom CSS.

I recently switched from Firefox to Arc, which is in closed beta right now. It has a great Tab management. If anyone is interested I can send you an invite :)

Ungoogled Chromium.

I was looking for private browsers, and found myself astonished at how the market is saturated in Chromium-based browsers, and how every website seems to only support theses browsers, so I had to accept that Chromium will be all there is until a new big thing appears, and wound up finding a Chromium fork that seems to remove all google aspects from it. I've had to tweak a few things but the experience has been very smooth so far.

Firefox for most things, Vivaldi if I need a chromium based browser

Currently using vanilla Firefox with https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to make the tabs look like actual tabs rather than weird floaty bubbles.

Used to use Chromium, but switched because they made it so that sites could autoplay videos in response to "user interactions", whatever that means.

TBH, not that happy with the current state of browsers; too much telemetry and not enough customizability.

Used Waterfox and Vivaldi for a while, but had to go back to Chromium. My daily driver is an old HP mini PC running the latest Linux Mint. Both Waterfox and Vivaldi seemed ok at first, but after a while, things just got too slow and both just seemed not to function as they should. Could just be that my machine is too old to keep up, but chromium runs fine.

@Bicyclejohn firefox or opera one

Firefox is my browser for life, but I use a lot of them depending on the context. Chromium has very good dev tools that I need for my work. Safari has good battery performance on macOS laptops. Arc has some nifty new ideas.

Web application developer by trade... So, unfortunately Chrome at work. But, at home and on mobile, Firefox 100% of the time!

Mozilla Firefox and Brave, I would say about 85% of my time is spent in Firefox, 15% are webpages that won't cooperate without using Chromium.

Aside from needing to have grapheneOS, Is there any reason not to use vandium on mobile?

PC - Librewolf, Firefox, and very rarely Brave

Phone - Mull and Firefox Nightly

Firefox and Kiwi on mobile.

Firefox and Brave on desktop.

Oh and Chrome, too. I'm sorry but my job requires it. :(

Firefox on PC and Android. I've been using it almost since it came out.

But in the early days, the UI was super slow and extensions tended to slow it even more, so I moved to Chrome for a few years.

Then back to Firefox, but the devs caught an attitude and didn't want to listen to users, so I moved to Edge (Chromium) for a couple of years. Apparently, the Firefox devs did end up listening, so it's all good again.

@Bicyclejohn Firefox, I don't know why, I suppose that I used it always.
Then I use Brave for pages which are optimized only for Chrome (unfortunately a lot of official portals in my place).
In mobile devices Brave and the native (Samsung Internet) I haven't checked Firefox yet.

I use Brave and Vivaldi.

Firefox for PC as well as my Android phone. Although mobile Firefox only supports a few add-ons, UBlock is one of them. This means I can simply use YouTube in my browser without ads instead of having to figure out a complicated workaround! It's really nice.

Brave for me. I like the built-in add blocker and since it's Chromium-based, I can still get a lot of the extensions I've been using for a while now. I had been a big Firefox proponent but they hit that block of time where it was just really slow and buggy/janky and I switched to Chromium-based browsers. Been hard for me to find a reason to switch back.

I use a couple of browsers because… why not :P

Mobile: Brave (default browser), Safari (pretty much only for news reading since it’s not my default browser anymore), Firefox Focus (quick lookups), Arc (haven’t tested it much yet tho)

Desktop: Brave and Safari (for work), Arc and Firefox (for personal browsing)

IceRaven (for the addons and a few enhancements) and Bromite. Both are not good choices as they are poorly supported, but that's the reality of mobile browsers I guess.

Tbh I hate mobile browsers in general. I don't understand why they have to be so crippled, especially FF and its forks that keep getting worse with every major version.

Edge, and works really well so far.

Was content (complacent?) with Edge for a long while till performance dropped off a cliff in latest updates (so much for BingAI). Had been using Ungoogled Chromium more but rough corners annoyed me. So recently tried Vivaldi and was hugely surprised how much its improved since I last used it. And being entirely more flippant these days, RGB integration is a fun (and pointless) feature.

Waterfox (Firefox fork), since it lets me put tabs below address bar natively, without a css file, and Vivaldi for sites that need Chromium.

Mull on phone, hardened Firefox on desktop.

Firefox on PC, Safari on Mac.

Safari because of the level of iOS/Mac integration. If it ever switches to something based off Chromium, then off to Firefox I go.

I'm a stubborn guy using Firefox since Firefox 3 times.

I do have a few other browsers installed (Midori, Chromium, Lynx [yup!] ) but I can't recall the last time that I used any of them.

Mull on phone, Librewolf on PC

I've used a few firefox forks but decided to KISS and stay with Firefox.

I use Chrome for work as their dev tools are better and it allows me to easily separate both.

I might get flack for this, but I like Microsoft Edge. Based on Chromium and has vertical tabs which is nice, and good support for PWAs since MS killed off their native MS Teams for Linux app. Was too hacky trying to get Firefox to work the way I wanted, with vertical tabs, and no native support for PWAs.

Firefox on Debian at home, mostly Chrome on Windows at work (sometimes Edge too) and Chrome on Android on my work phone due to practical reasons.

Firefox and sync my mountain of addons between all the machines I have it on. Fennec on android.

Brave on mobile and desktop

Firefox for work and most things due to it being open source and with a good ad and tracker blocker.

Chrome for YT (AdBlock off to support creators) and for running the incremental games for my channel (they generally work better with Chrome). Although I am considering switching to Vivaldi for this purpose.

Safari on iOS/iPadOS and Firefox on Windows/macOS.

Hoping for alternative browser engines and extensions in third-party browsers on iOS, maybe already with iOS 17. Then I could probably switch to Firefox on all platforms.

Mull has been very good to me, so I've stuck to using it so far.

I've been using Arc exclusively for the past few months, and really enjoy the experience. It has so many nice little UX flourishes, and tab management is super clean and organized.

Bromite and Fennec as backup on mobile (one place where you should go with chromium since security really matters here and things need to be patched ASAP) and Firefox, Vivaldi and Chromium as backup on Linux.

I thought Vivaldi was a gimmick for a long time but it grows on you. I ended up recreating stuff like gestures and sidebar from Vivaldi in Firefox with extensions.

I like to split tasks/genres between browsers.

Chrome: day job Gmail, calendar etc, and other work related research Vivaldi: web dev testing Firefox: everything else

Firefox on mobile

Edge.

Native vertical tabs + edge drop is just too good.

Using Orion on iOS currently (there’s a macOS version too). It’s made by the same people behind the Kagi search engine. I’m loving it. Built with WebKit and on mobile it utilises some power saving feature Safari does not.

They plan to release a Windows version eventually too, and using WebKit! (Not Chromium).

Chrome for anything Google related. Firefox + NoScript for most browsing. I have pi-hole running on my network and don't permit anything but that node to query outbound for DNS.

I use Arc and Orion for my computer. Mobile I use DDG and Orion

qutebrowser

I have changed browser maybe every five or so years, whenever I had issues with the one I'm using. I've been back on Firefox as primary for a couple of years now.

Firefox.

I've been using it since the Phoenix days. I occasionally go to Vivaldi (which is currently my secondary browser), but currently I'm back with Firefox.

I use Vivaldi and Firefox. I like Vivaldi customisability, tabbing, workspaces, rss support and Firefox robustness. Vivaldi also supports mail etc but i have not used that yet.

how about mullvad browser? that’s what i started using. based on tor but less overkill :)

Brave. Because Mozilla made me switch from Firefox after almost 20 years due to its idiotic development trend (remove features, add crappy UI, disregard community feedback).

Firefox because of the manifest v3 crap.

Before I switched back to Firefox, I was using Edge. Edge is probably the best browser out there currently. It has so many amazing features built in that make every other browser look featureless.

Even though manifest v3 is on hold, I don't care. I am staying on Firefox. Even though Mozilla broke label printing a few months ago, and despite bug reports being submitted, they haven't fixed it. Mozilla is definitely REALLY slow at development. (It took years for Firefox on Android to get pull to refresh, and it's still a buggy mess lol)

Personal Use:

• Firefox with all privacy guards enabled on PC
• Samsung Internet and Firefox on mobile

Work Use: Edge. Honestly such an impressive browser - much faster than other browsers ime, great set of built in tools. If it wasn't for the privacy concerns, I would probably shift to Edge.

Firefox

Either Firefox or Librewolf (fork of Firefox). On my Lineage, I use Fennec. I usually restrict it even more with custom uBlock Origin filters and dnsmasq sinkholes to get away from 'Sign in with Google'-like popups, though.

Vivaldi. I was a huge Opera fan before they sold out, and Vivaldi is as close as possible to that in a modern browser. I also sometimes use Firefox, but find Vivaldi is faster, has features that work better together than a mishmash of extensions, and works with more stuff because chromium.

Brave. Open source, blocks everything and use Chromium for maximum web compatibility.

Firefox all the way. Vanilla on desktop and Iceraven (a Firefox fork) on mobile. I also have Wolvic installed on my Quest 2 which came from Firefox's VR browser, but I never browse the internet in VR lol