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.

And on android, Firefox is the only browser that allows installing ublock-origin and user scripts
- That's actually not true. There's also Kiwi Browser

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:

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

Firefox FTW!
I can't imagine using any Chromium browser when ad-blockers stops working.
It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.
Wait its going to be unsupported after?
- In Chromium and derived browsers, yes. It already doesn't work in Safari and presumably other WebKit-derived browsers. Firefox will soon be the only browser capable of running a truly effective ad-blocking extension.

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

DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now
How is that working for you? I am thinking of switching in my quest to get out of google stuff
- Not op but I'm using DDG since many years and I feel like is continuously improving.
  In case you miss google or you need a different search you can simply add !g to the search and search on google from DDG (it opens a google page)
  https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
- I tried that for quite a while but ultimately gave up. For many (technical or non-English) topics, I found no fitting result of my search on the first page.
- Great, occasionally have to switch search engines to get certain kinds of results but that's true with Google as well

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 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.

Just normal Firefox? I used to be a chrome fanboy before learning about the privacy movement
- Yeah, just regular Firefox with a few add-ons like adblockers and script blockers and such. It's got a pretty seamless sync with Firefox on my mobile too.

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.

I just wish they'd add all the extensions to firefox android... and i'd like card style tabs too but i can live without them.
- Definitely agreed, but at least they provide you with the essentials.
yo question ab firefox coming from dude who knows very little ab it, i watched a video browser tier list by eric murphy and he listed hardened firefox in S tier, do u reach hardened firefox by downloading configs for it off github? how reliable is it and do things tend to crash if u try to have many options at the same time (like an amalgamtion of stuff from different ppl in order to reached a specific desired outcome, in terms of options, security settings and look)?

Firefox for personal. Chrome for work.

This actually works really well for me, since it means I don't have to play around with swapping accounts or do any effort to keep things separate.
- Exactly!!
Same

Firefox, and have done for the past 20 years

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.

This is basically my reasons exactly. I use edge as a backup when a page doesn't work in Firefox, but use Firefox primarily because I don't want the web to be defined by blink's implementation. Plugins on Android, while limited, are unbeatable.
What plug ins are you using?
- I use Dark Reader and Ublock Origin

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

Lemmy and the fediverse contain ore tech savvy people. Surprised its not hardened Firefox

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.

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

Boo, not even chromium
😂 I was on Firefox before Chrome, and happily switched once I learned how much faster Chrome was around 2008. Switched back to Firefox not long after they introduced container tabs and their android browser is so much nicer that now I can't use chrome anymore.
- I did the same, except I just switched back to Firefox this past fall. Trying to degoogle myself
You pleb! (jk)

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.

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'm Firefox on desktop and Android as well.
For me, I care about privacy and tracking. I use Unlock Origin, which imo is the best ad block and tracker system.
Mozilla is also non-profit FOSS, so I trust them far more than other browser makers.
- AdBlock and privacy blockers on mobile are a lifesaver

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

for tree style tabs
Is there a way to turn off the top bar tabs when using the tree tabs?

Firefox still has some integrity unlike chrome and its clones.

@Bicyclejohn Firefox

Is this working
- I think? Are you trying to figure out if you can react to comments?

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

Else, Firefox (vanilla).

Isn't tor overkill for dealing with companies?
- For me, companies includes Cloudflare, Google, Amazon and Meta, and my primary goal is anonymity to them (rather than security). So no, Tor and Tor Browser is not overkill for these companies.
- If it doesn't affect the overall convenience of the user, it certainly doesn't hurt; and gives you peace of mind.
Very nice. I'd be willing to guess some people have been reading Michael Bazzell lately.
- Well I've been doing it for years and have no idea who Bazzell is ¯(ツ)_/¯

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

Work PC: Edge (No options here)

Firefox, I hate chrome lol

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

Yesss

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!

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.

What's your browser, idiot?
<3.

Vanilla Firefox here as well.

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

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.

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.

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

!firefox@lemmy.ml all the way!!

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.

Same here. Librewolf is great.

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.)

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.

- Good to know, thanks for sharing!
- Thanks for the link, makes me think about it a little more in a different light.
firefox on android has ublock origin and when google kills support for what lets adblockers work, apps like brave that are based on chromium will stop working

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

I found vivaldi to have too many things packed into it's face
- i dont even blame u i thought so too at the start but i unironically use alot of them now.. use the notes app cus its there and convenient i can attach links and a screenshot to it, quicker than opening another notes app and making a new file specifically for the website i wana talk ab, i use the mail client cus quicker than opening gmail, and the rss thing is smt im just getting into. ik im bringing brave outa nowhere but most of brave's packed in stuff are alot less useful for me xD
Question, is there a way to silence all of Vivaldi's updates? I'm ok with updating in the background but I had to uninstall it because it was so annoying
- gahh idk about that one man, personally i dont mind the updates cus im always trying to have the newest features. sorry that was an issue.

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.

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

Same here, only website I use chromium with is Twitch because they make it nigh impossible to login on anything else.

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.

Been on Firefox on on all OS's for ages, but I will likely switch to LibreWolf as well. Vanadium on personal phone. For work I'm basically stuck on edge/chrome on both desktop and phone.

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.

Safari has some great extensions! I use Wipr on all my devices.

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

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

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. :)

Did the same thing recently. Wishing I could find Thunderbird on Android.
Also been using Firefox since it was called Netscape Navigator.

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.

Why Vivaldi over something like Brave or Ungoogled Chromium for your odd thing that requires it?
- Honestly that would be better. I use Vivaldi out of pure convenience. It is in my package manager as a native app. Brave is awkward, only through flatpak, which I don't mind but not a first choice. I am hesistant to use anything that pushes cryptocurrency. I would rather outright pay for a browser than look at advertisements.
  The odd thing is actually the Peterson Strobe Tuner app, and I guess it needs chromium for direct access to the hardware.

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

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!

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.

librewolf on PC, Mull on my android.

Same here. Couldn't be happier with those two.

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

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.

Vivaldi, because it has amazing tab management.

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.

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

I like Epiphany, but I think it leaks memory or something. After running for a while it starts taking tons of memory and closing tabs doesn’t seem to release it (the computer goes back to normal when it’s closed completely though). Maybe it’s just the Fedora build, I’m not sure
There’s also Otter Browser for another WebKit based choice, but it’s pretty rough and developed slowly
- I haven't experienced that. It's been running smoothly when I've used it.

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

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

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.

Who's your DNS provider?

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

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

Haven't heard that browser in a while, cool choice! What sets it apart?
- customization for almost all UI element but I just use it as a regular browser (setup adblock, and then casually browsing the web 🤷)
  it kinda slow tho

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.

You don't even use uBlock Origin?

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.

Loving Arc! I kinda like how it doesn’t really make a distinction between tabs and favorites, and at the same time I kinda don’t.
Do you have a solution for links you want to have access to someday but don’t really want as pinned tabs or favorites? I have some pinned tab folders at the moment, but I don’t love that solution. I’ve used Pinboard in the past but, 1) I feel like that product is dying and 2) I’d like tighter browser integration.

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

Safari has actually been a decent experience for me since I joined the golden cage a few months back. It really just works (most of the time™️), as do ~~all~~ most things Apple. Lack of support for some modern web technologies is rather off-putting, though...

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.

manifest v3
- That's fair, but FYI for ad block specifically, Brave has it built in rather than as an extension so it works regardless of manifest v3. I think the same is true for Vivaldi but I can't say from experience how it compares
what do people have against chromium?
Dunno about others, but I run older hardware and Chrom* was a resource piglet for me.
- Which is ironic, since when Chrome was released, it got traction for being slimmer and a lot faster than Firefox.
  It probably doesn't help, that browsers had to become (almost) full operating systems and runtime environment.
- Unsing older hardware here too. Had to move to pale moon because even Firefox struggles with 2gb of ram.
For me it's just ignorance. I don't know if chromium offers what I'm looking for but I do know Firefox does.
Several things:
Owned by for profit company
Browser engine is dominant
Said company is in the ad business, so they don't have the best incentives for privacy
Said company are well known for pulling stunts to get people using their browser (i.e. using web rendering techniques that is fast on their browser but painfully slow on others)
Having a monopoly in an area is bad for us users
Meanwhile, I'm glad folks on here are very pro-Firefox as well as not shitting on Chrome users. I was afraid it was going to be thls (except replace "invented Comic Sans" with "uses Chrome") https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html

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

And I just saw that they added vertical tabs in a recent update! Tress-style tabs is basically the only thing that was really keeping me on firefox, feature wise.
- I'm also impressed by their Brave Search, it no longer needs to make calls to Bing, and has great localized searches 😊
- Sadly, Brave just has vertical tabs like Edge, it's not a tree style tabs replacement.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't know why it would be any good to have a browser reskin just to change the default search engine. It's a simple settings change. Is there any other benefit? Worst case, it becomes poorly maintained and a security risk.

Fennic on the phone and Firefox on the desktop.

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)

That's a name I haven't heard in a looong time. I mostly browse from my phone / tablet nowadays, but qutebrowser is such a good vim-like browser experience.
- qutebrowser really is great, I have tried all of the browser add-ons and other vim-like browsers but I always find myself coming back.
Qutebrowser
That's what i call based

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

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

Good to see another grapheneos user

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

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.

Man, your comment encompasses Firefox perfectly.
I switched from Firefox to Chrome back when Chrome first came out. Switched back to Firefox after a bit, but Firefox was so slow and janky, and they screwed over all extensions, that I didn't last long before returning to Chrome. Switched to Edge Chromium, and now I am back on Firefox since the manifest v3 news.
Firefox is still jank. There's currently a bug that breaks label printing on Firefox, and despite many people reporting it to Mozilla, they just haven't fixed it or acknowledged it. The Android version is so clunky, and it has taken them years to release pull to refresh, and when they finally did, it's extremely buggy.
It's really a love/hate relationship with Mozilla lol
- It’s really a love/hate relationship with Mozilla lol
  Pretty much! And yeah, the Android app also has so much drama going on. They changed the app and didn't allow extensions for a while. Now they only allow a few (?). I remember being pissed about GreaseMonkey because I used my own script on a website and I had just decided to try it out on my phone, and bam! the update killed GM on the phone.

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.

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

Vanadium is a great browser and there is nothing inherently bad about it. I also use GrapheneOS, but I prefer Firefox for the uBlock and Dark Reader extensions as well as syncing with my other devices.

@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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Brave - works mobile and desktop for me.

@Bicyclejohn firefox or opera one

Mostly edge

It’s quite decent in terms of battery usage

And BingAI occasionally becomes useful for research

Like seemingly most people here, I use Firefox primarily. But while I'm working I use Edge, both to separate my work/non-work computer usage somewhat and because I work mostly with Microsoft technologies anyway, and it integrates nicely with office365 as one would expect. It's a perfectly good browser with some nice features. I think if I needed to use a chrome derivative, it would be either Edge or Vivaldi.

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.

I'm a Waterfox user with Vivaldi as my backup. For the longest time Spotify wouldn't work in Waterfox, so I only used Vivaldi for music playback.
I use Waterfox because I want to use Firefox, but without the extra junk like Pocket and their ad "experiments."

Firefox and Kiwi on mobile.

Firefox and Brave on desktop.

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

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).

Wish I could figure out why clicking on my downloads in the download list doesn't open them, though (I'm on KDE Neon).
Not sure if the UI is exactly the same but are you clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the name or the filename itself?
If you click the name on the OS versions I've used, it opens the file or in the case of a zip, unpacks it.
- For me there’s the filename followed by a map icon. Clicking on the map opens op Dolphin at the download folder as expected, but clicking on the file doesn’t always work. Files like PDFs work just fine, but Deb and Flatpakref files don’t open up the KDE package manager as expected. I’m not really sure why that is. Suppose it’s down to the handlers but I’m not sure how to configure that on Linux.
  Funnily enough LibreWolf properly asks me what I want to do with a file and does it accordingly.
  EDIT: I’ve fixed the issue, more or less. I was using the Flatpak version of Firefox and by default it seems to have very limited access. Adding a permission to allow access to my home folder fixes it. It’s probably not the most secure solution though.

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.

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.

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 :)

What is arc?
- A fairly new browser based on chromium
  https://arc.net/
Just checked out the Arc website and am interested! if you can still can send invites I’d take 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.

PC - Librewolf, Firefox, and very rarely Brave

Phone - Mull and Firefox Nightly

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 exists and works great. I'm in IT and use it for everything. Tab containers and temporary tabs are amazing.
- the main issue with Firefox is the subpar (or lack thereof in the case of android) site isolation.
the market is saturated in Chromium-based browsers, and how every website seems to only support theses browsers
Outside of Google blocking some of their websites from Firefox (the only one I can think of currently is Stadia Bluetooth Mode), which websites do you find that only support Chrome? I haven't found any.
- I didn't mean it as in "it only works in Chrome", but how some websites just seem to ignore any problems that are in non-Chromium browsers.

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).

Same for me, but I've started using fulguris on android. I think it just uses the android webrenderer unfortunately, but it is open source.
- i stand corrected: i just found an incredible browser, allowing html file import and a lot more!: soul browser. Now also testing as my main browser

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

Do you run your own Firefox sync service or use Mozilla's?
I've wanted to set my own sync up but never got around to it. The few times I've skimmed over the setup process, it looked pretty rough.
- Using Moz's but I would like to run my own at some point too!

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)

Mull on phone, hardened Firefox on desktop.

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.

Firefox on PC, Safari on Mac.

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.

Brave on mobile and desktop

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

Edge, and works really well so far.

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.

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'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.

I use Brave and Vivaldi.

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.

Mull on phone, Librewolf on PC

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.

although it’s somewhat annoying because some sites break
This is the problem with hardened browsers. You spend too much time trying to make them work, or have to use other browsers to view certain content anyway.

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

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

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 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.

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.

qutebrowser

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

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

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

Is Arc still mac only?

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 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.

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).

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).

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.

Edge.

Native vertical tabs + edge drop is just too good.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

Firefox

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.

I've found vanilla chromium to be as fast as and occasionally faster than edge.

Waterfox G5, because it's literally just modern Firefox ESR but with the ability to install legacy add-ons re-enabled.

I use this to make my own personal CSS themes and JS add-ons (as well as use existing ones like in the link above) and manage them in a way that's more elegant and streamlined than userChrome.

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.

I don't know, them asking me for my email address to be put on a waiting list isn't really an encouraging start.
- Oh, I did not realize they were still invite-only. I've had access for several months, so I had assumed they had officially opened the door to everyone by now.

I use Vivaldi, because it just has a better UI and better usability features.

I’m in web dev, so I have a bunch of browsers. My main driver on my desktop is Librewolf with a bunch of extensions that make browsing the web enjoyable at best and tolerable at worst. I use DuckDuckGo Lite as my main search engine on all my browsers.

Other browsers I use are Brave (main browser on my mobile device). Vanilla Firefox (for web dev or logging in as Librewolf isn’t best for many aspects of web development and many sites trip up when you try to log in with LW). Ungoogled Chromium when Brave is too slow (Brave is slowest of the ones I use).

I also read news from the Links terminal browser. Yes the original Links Browser, not Lynx, or elinks, or links2, or w3m, etc.

I don’t use Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Edge. I use Safari sparingly just to be sure some of my sites are working on it. I have played around with Tor, but generally don’t have a need to set anything up on the Dark Web at the time of this writing, so yeah.