Firefox or Vivaldi on pc & notebook, Vanadium & Fennec on Android - Grapheneos.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2023
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I use Vivaldi, because it just has a better UI and better usability features.
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.
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.
Firefox, and ill continue to use it for as long as possible. No thanks Chromium.
PC: qutebrowser (nice, quick, ad-block 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)
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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.
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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 doesnβt seem to release it (the computer goes back to normal when itβs closed completely though). Maybe itβs just the Fedora build, Iβm not sure
Thereβs also Otter Browser for another WebKit based choice, but itβs pretty rough and developed slowly
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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
wow!!! that's super cool! I mean, I didn't know about these features. You seem to be getting a good deal out of vivaldi
yea xD, also forgot to mention it has ridiculous keyboard shortcuts (tbf u can prolly get those from qutebrowser or maybe firefox if uk what ur doing), and it has dope tab management, u can align the buttons on any side of the screen and u can tile tabs in ur windows kinda like tiling windows managers do, and u can put several tabs in 1 group and open up grid view for that 1 group so that everythings layed out neatly, honestly the only thing this browser needs to be perfect for my standarts is being foss.
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Iβm 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 isnβt 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 donβt 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 donβt have a need to set anything up on the Dark Web at the time of this writing, so yeah.
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.
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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
Cool but chromium :(
Yeah it's sad that almost all browsers are based on chromium. I also like the devtools of firefox more
Interesting. One of the only things I think Chrome does better than Firefox is the DevTools.
It's probably because I've used them for the last years and am more used to firefox dev tools :)
But generally it's not a big of a difference
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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)
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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
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.