Ask HN: What browser are you using?

Firefox! From the day it was released, on Windows, OpenBSD and Android, so that's 19 years? Because I know that everything else, with the exception of textual browsers like elinks and w3m, send telemetry to their masters.

Just Chrome, signed in and syncing with Google.<p>I used Firefox from the Phoenix days until maybe 2014-2020 or so, but kept running into rendering and performance issues, especially with canvas. Several of my last few web dev jobs deprecated support for it, so I stopped using it altogether.<p>The Google tracking stuff doesn&#x27;t bother me (I find it helpful, actually). But if they ever kill ad blocking, I&#x27;ll for sure switch away (and probably use that opportunity to exit the Google ecosystem).<p>Until then, though, Chrome&#x27;s been fantastic!

I was using Opera for its UX despite its constant degradation and other well-known matters. The last straw was when they added borders around main webview, so you can’t use “click or scroll aside” action anymore. Switched to Vivaldi and it feels like <i>that</i> old Opera, which I always liked. Why:<p>- UI settings and behaviors which in other browsers are considered excessive, confusing and inducing panic attacks for a mythical regular user. Pretty ordinary for detailed enumeration, that’s just my workflow and QoL for years.<p>- Not google.<p>That’s pretty much it. Popular browser UIs just suck. They are nothing more than a basic shell around a webview and do not feel like you’re using an app. To me they feel like notepad instead of &lt;your ide&#x2F;editor&gt;.<p>I wouldn’t call it not heavy, pretty much the opposite.<p>I also compared Chrome and Vivaldi on sites I use. The actual speed difference is marginal, but Vivaldi feels slower due to lack of common ui techniques. I don’t mind it cause I know how it works.

Primarily Firefox, but once in a while a website will require Chrome, and for that I use Brave. Brave is better than standard Chrome, but like you said, the crypto garbage and useless features are frustrating.

Vivaldi (from the people who brought you Opera). It&#x27;s light, robust, nice UI, tweakable. I used to use Brave but don&#x27;t really trust it since they went down the crypto route.

Firefox. I&#x27;ve used it since Pheonix.<p>Why not? It&#x27;s stable, respects privacy and has a thriving ecosystem of plugins.<p>If a campany&#x27;s silly enough to make browser-specific websites any more, and some are, I just don&#x27;t use that company.

Firefox, of course, for many years, on both my computers and my phones. I wish they would make fewer changes, less often, but other than that I am quite content.<p>People say there are websites which require Chrome, but I never encounter them.<p>Without uBlock Origin, I would find much of the modern web intolerable.

Depends on the site. Most of the time it&#x27;s Firefox due to uBlock Origin and other useful extensions, but for certain sites like YouTube, it&#x27;s Google Chrome. Every other browser I have installed is for testing purposes.

Firefox since 2006&#x2F;2007. Safari on iPhone for battery savings but Firefox is there too :)

Firefox, for nearly the whole time it existed. Never seen a reason to change.

Iridium, because I love bookmarks on Chrome&#x2F;Chromium, and LibreWolf, which imho is Firefox as it should be, simple and ready out of the box.<p>And Safari and DDG’s on my phone.

At work I use Chrome, because we use Google Meet for meetings which doesn&#x27;t work well on Firefox. For everything else I use Firefox.

I use FF for daily browsing and Chrome when have to jump on google meet (can&#x27;t get it working on FF, otherwise I would not use Chrome at all)

My main driver is Safari. I recently switched from Brave as my main driver simply because of the Sonoma bug in Chrome-based browsers.

I switch between Firefox, Brave, and Safari on desktop, depending on the week. I don&#x27;t have Chrome installed on anything.

Firefox, because it&#x27;s the &quot;least worst&quot; browser I can find.

I tried Arc a few months back and quickly decided to give it a go as a primary browser. It’s quite nice.

Brave and FF on Linux, Windows and an old MBP.<p>I don&#x27;t install Chrome anymore.

Firefox Nightly, although LibreWolf is looking really nice.

I used plain Chromium (Woolyss builds[1], with the external updater) for around two years [on Windows], even as a frequent browser-hopper. I&#x27;d just constantly come back to Chromium (after trying Brave, Firefox, Waterfox, even <i>Edge</i>). Everything else did things I didn&#x27;t want, and wasted a greater amount of CPU time doing so (like Brave&#x27;s crypto stuff).<p>Nowadays I use Firefox and, aside from a few annoying glitches, I&#x27;m very happy with it -- for me, the main point of a browser is that most of the time, I shouldn&#x27;t have to be thinking about it. When I do have to (so, say, for Multiple Containers -- really good feature!), I expect it to provide a great experience.<p>Firefox generally does, and from my (unscientific testing) it is typically more resource-friendly than Chromium-based browsers (especially those with HTML-based UI addons, think sidebars, etc.)<p>I certainly don&#x27;t agree with many of their decisions, but I&#x27;d say that they&#x27;ve ultimately succeeded in building a very solid competitor to Chromium. My main disappointment with it is that, as of 2023, it doesn&#x27;t support PWAs[0]; I remain mindblown that this feature was cancelled.<p>For the curious, I&#x27;m currently utilising the following extensions:<p>uBlock Origin: The best ad-blocker out there<p>KeepassXC: Great password manager<p>Multiple Containers: very useful for isolating data stored by sites across different containers.<p>Web Scrobbler: for scrobbl... uhh, uploading YouTube [Music] activity to ListenBrainz<p>Enhancer for Youtube: provides additional functionality for YouTube (like disabling end cards, what a stupid feature)<p>Return YouTube Dislike: generally required for YouTube IMO<p>uBlacklist: allows for the blacklisting of URLs from search results; supports DuckDuckGo, Google, and many other search engines<p>Reddit Enhancement Suite<p>Old Reddit Redirect: redirects reddit.com to old.reddit.com, makes the experience much less annoying in general<p>P.S. As an anecdote, pinch to zoom doesn&#x27;t work for me on Chromium (via X11). Surprising as it may sound, that&#x27;s an absolute <i>must</i> for me: I use it all the time, so much so that it&#x27;s very well engrained into muscle memory.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;27&#x2F;firefox-discontinues-work-pwa-desktop&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;9to5google.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;01&#x2F;27&#x2F;firefox-discontinues-work-...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.woolyss.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromium.woolyss.com&#x2F;</a>

Firefox, Brave, and Safari.

Safari and Orion

Firefox.<p>Safari is OK, but I have everything in FFox.<p>Chrome is a no-go because Google nonsense, and Brave is a no-go because crypto nonsense.

Edge

WebTV

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