Since currently Lemmy is mostly made up of nerds, I’d like to know what browsers you use and why? You could just upvote the comment with your browser of choice if you don’t want to explain.
firefox
on mobile am preparing to move to iceraven
Until recently, chrome. Recently I started experimenting with Firefox and qutebrowser.
I used FF for a long time then chrome because of how much was deved for it. Now I’m trying to switch back to FF, but getting out of the chrome eco system is such a pain in the ass
Personally had an ok switch. My biggest issue was auto completions. Which was solved with Bitwarden.
I need to just bite the bullet and deal with the swap, as chrome has gotten worse and worse over the years
Firefox with a load of plugins. Mostly adblockers, cookie blockers, and one that automatically runs through the dark patterns that are cookie prompts and rejects all the cookies it can.
one that automatically runs through the dark patterns that are cookie prompts and rejects all the cookies it can.
What extension is this?
Consent-o-matic. This is their github page, the links to both the Chrome and Firefox addon store links are somewhere right there.
Firefox with ublock always
Firefox!
Firefox on desktop & mobile
Firefox for the past 19 years. No need to change at this point.
Firefox. Moved because of the Manifest V3 changes around November 2022
Arc (only on Mac for now), still not completely mature but I hope they improve performance and stability in the future, as the core ideas are pretty great
Their spaces, pinned tabs and splitted views really make for a great experience
Also a fan of Arc. When I first started using it a year ago I thought it would be temporary but it quickly became my primary browser
+1 for Arc!
Firefox.
Firefox
another one for Firefox. I use it on PC and Android too, tho it has some issues and bugs on mobile. But I don’t care.
Not Chrome. Not Edge. Not Brave.
Chrome is tied too closely to Google. I don’t trust Google with my data because their business model is all about monetizing anything you give them. It’s also always been bloated and slow on the Mac.
It’s a shame because when Edge first came out, it was great. Now it’s a bloated dumping ground of privacy-invading featuritis.
Brave recently had a bunch of privacy/monetization controversies that put me off of it as well.
That leaves me with Firefox and Safari.
Vivaldi seems interesting, but so far I haven’t seen any performance differences between it and Safari. Thought I’d give it a try to see how well it worked on an older Mac, but it was missing webp support there, just like Safari.
Firefox and chrome
I want to use Firefox, but I’m too used to vertical tabs and the plugins available for Firefox aren’t quite there yet, so Brave it is.
