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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi. For me, in terms of usability, it's the closest thing to Opera (and by "Opera" I mean the browser that it was before moving to Blink/Chromium).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

When X breaks, i use Lynx.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On desktop, Librewolf (Firefox) and Brave. Sometimes I need a Chromoum browser (thanks Google), and Brave is one of the better options.

On iOS, it doesn’t really matter. Though, I went with Brave. Ad blocking and background media playback is great.

On Android I use Mull, which is a hardened Firefox, with goals similar to Librewolf. Again, Brave as a backup.

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Librefox (a Firefox fork) or if I really just don't want to use that for sites like fandom, I can always rely on the text based Links browser to save the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Qutebrowser and Firefox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Google Chrome because I'm hooked on extension syncing and have had poor experiences with Firefox. I'll reevaluate once Manifest v2 is sunsetted.

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[–] SinTacks 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Brave. It got better privacy ratings than Firefox and I really like the design.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Desktop:

Mullvad browser as daily driver (Firefox + Arkenfox + Tor Browser + ublock origin out of the box)

Degoogled chromium for any logged in accounts, each in its own profile (I prefer the chrome profile switcher)

Tor Browser for any onion sites

Mobile:

Mull (Firefox)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Brave on both.

  • Native vertical tabs +1
  • tablet UIs
  • scrolling velocity doesn't feel non-native

Would like to revisit Firefox once those are fixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vertical tabs are managed by extensions. i used tree style tab, now i'm using sidebery.

if you want to use sidebery, use the beta from the GitHub page. they completely rewrote the extension between v4 and v5

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At home, Firefox. At work: Chrome because I'm a web developer and our app is currently broken in Firefox

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Brave, thinking about using firefox, and degoogle more

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mac - Opera main, Safari secondary, + Brave for free YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Orion (when it works 99% of the time) on my Mac. It’s pretty much all the benefits of Safari plus the ability to run some Firefox/Chrome extensions. I know it’s not FOSS yet, but they at least claim to be working on it. Firefox for the other websites that don’t work on Orion (very rare), and Chrome for the others that don’t work well at all on Orion/Firefox (almost never). I’m planning on deleting Chrome overall soon.

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