Asklemmy

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.

https://pulsebrowser.app its a minimalist Firefox fork with an extremely handy sidebar and sane defaults

Librewolf

🔥 🦊

I'm a total browser slut.

At work, I use Firefox as my main browser. I had been using Edge to access the Chromium rendering engine, but I've recently switched over to Arc.

At home, I recently exchanged Safari for Orion and Edge for Arc, with Firefox for when I work from home.

I used to have Opera installed for times when a VPN came in handy.

All on Mac

Firefox, been using it on my PC as long as I've had one. Been forced to use Chrome, I.E & Edge on work computers and don't fancy them particularly.

Firefox developer edition.

Switched to that because of chrome's manifest v3 announcement.

Firefox. Developer edition, to be specific.

LibreWolf, which is a fork of Firefox focused on privacy

I use run the Nintendo DS web browser on my Gameboy.

LibreWolf

Firefox + ublock

Vivaldi on laptop, Orion on iPhone — but as of last week Orion is crashing multiple times a day (after months of use without issues).

Home pc: Vivaldi

Phone: Vivaldi

Work pc: Vivaldi + Firefox

Edit: i really liked the old Opera browser (12.16 and prior or whatever), and Vivaldi is the closest to that

Firefox, but Vivaldi seems cool and I might start using it in on mobile.

Brave on my Windows desktop, and Arc for my MacOS laptop

I use orion on Mac and it works well 99% of the time.

Vivaldi. I use Firefox too, but I love the mouse gestures and other features.

For work I use Safari, for fun I use Firefox, and for anything that demands I use Chrome I use Chrome.

Moved from Edge to Firefox and back to Edge a few days later. FF "works" but I prefer the less clicks requiring Edge UI. The faster bookmarking, the better vertical tabs (though you can kind of get it to work with verticalFox css). Edge loads faster and handling drag and drop of tabs and better website translation. FF also had performance issues on some websites. Another is, Edge bookmark icon remembers my click, while FF UI always resets.

I use a combination of desktop and android and FF android really isn't good with it's UI, it would require many more clicks to save 10 bookmarks inside my desktop folders and much longer to sync them. While on Edge it was two touch and instant sync.

I'd say FF is fine for 99% if the people but I was looking for something else. I did this just a few days ago.

I moved to Firefox on desktop years ago.

On mobile I use Firefox as default, Cromite if something does not work on Firefox, Kiwi Browser as backup.

Firefox and Kiwi Browser on mobile is a bit sluggish and slow on my phone.

Firefox.

I'm so happy to see that almost everyone here uses Firefox or a fork of it!

Librewolf. It is Firefox with private defaults.

Firefox for personal. I like Edge for work stuff.

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.

Arc + uBo Mac, Firefox + uBo mobile

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).

Librewolf

Recently moved from Librewolf to Floorp (also based on Firefox). It is at least worth checking out I’d say, especially if you’re on Vivaldi specifically because you can’t find something which competes in customisation, workspaces, and sidebars and all.

Chrome on Mac.

Been using Brave for several years on all my devices, I might switch to a Firefox variant at some point tho.