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I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me

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[โ€“] Candid_Technology_66@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.)

[โ€“] Elbullazul@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] nigelinux@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] squidward_15@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] ccunix@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] stefenauris@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

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!

[โ€“] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. :)

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[โ€“] Owell1984@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] asjkk8@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

librewolf on PC, Mull on my android.

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[โ€“] EponymousBosh@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] mook@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[โ€“] ketcham1009@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] oishiiburger@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] swiniowaty@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] Quintus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] JoKi@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I also use Firefox on Windows, Linux and Android.

[โ€“] taur10@venera.social 5 points 1 year ago

@Bicyclejohn Firefox, whatever version is default on LM๐Ÿ˜E, with containers, NoScript and Ublock for privacy purposes

[โ€“] fratermus@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] Wololo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi, because it has amazing tab management.

[โ€“] citizensv@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] Wistful@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] Sowatee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] anders@rytter.me 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[โ€“] markkdark@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] Skimmer5728@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[โ€“] Nyanix@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] Cowabunghole@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[โ€“] Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Rod_Orm@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] Mir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[โ€“] calcifer@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[โ€“] xangelo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] Tumbleweed@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] otis@gnu.gl 4 points 1 year ago

@Bicyclejohn firefox or opera one

[โ€“] GenericPerson@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

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