Poll: What browser do you use?

[Codachrome]

Librewolf and Waterfox are good alternatives. I used Pale Moon for a good while but quit in 2020 when the developer had a big update to say they were upset that Patreon was supporting Black Lives Matter, then went on to justify it with "I have several black friends, but..."

oh i didn't know about that, that's horrible

[myleszey]

oh i didn't know about that, that's horrible

It was out of left field but maybe I could have anticipated it by looking closer at the developer(s). Just so it's clear I'm not making this up: Link to their forum

[Gabi Fluoride]

who wants to know? >:3

nah, i use librewolf. i've been using brave on mobile but i've been meaning to switch to something else due to the cring crypto/AI aspects of it becoming more and more front-and-center over the past few years :v

[lakes]

I use Librewolf for most things, Firefox for DRM mostly, and Ungoogled Chromium for stuff that meant for Chromium browsers.

[red-night]

I mainly use Firefox myself, but I admit I'm lazy and just keep using Safari on my phone . I mean, I was going to use Firefox (and even was for a hot minute) until I saw something somewhere online (I can't remember off the top of my head, so if you know please mention it) that Apple forces all mobile browsers to use WebKit, which basically only allows developers to reskin Safari. I just used Safari from then on out .

[xero333]

Google Chrome. I really want to move away from it to Firefox or something else, but basically everything I use is Google so it's going to be a long process. Eventually I want to move away from Google completely to more privacy focused alternatives, but again, this process is going to take a long time to do.

[small_cypress]

On my laptop, I use a hardened Firefox for forums, news, RSS, etc - places where I tend to stay logged in. I use Mullvad in case I have to log into my work email or bank app.

On my desktop, I have Firefox for normal browsing and I have Chrome for when I need to touch my Google account for anything - these days mostly making sure I'm not getting anything important at my old Gmail account. I was a beta Gmail user in a past life. I remember hyping my parents up on it to get them off of Hotmail. Weird how things change

[hikatamika]

I use UnGoogled Chromium (custom anti-track/anti-spy build of Chrome). I like Chrome, I just don't like Google: so I don't see why not.

Mozilla has been putting weird stuff into stock-Firefox too, anyway, so I also use BetterFox on stock Firefox. Especially when doing cross-browser testing. It's the same idea as LibreWolf, but instead of it being a fork or custom package, it's a user settings file that turns all the spyware/adware/junkware features off of stock Firefox.

I miss the days when the actual browser dev companies didn't put junk in, but at least the browsers are open source.

[Nathan]

I use two browsers, Firefox and Chromium. My special favorite is Firefox. Not only can you install add-ons without restrictions, but you can also customize it via CSS. I installed Geckium (a fusion of Firefox and Google Chrome) to give it a 2010s look. I use Chromium for work, nothing more (except for playing online games, because for some reason it doesn't work properly on Firefox).

Add-ons I use: uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, Privacy Badger, Bitwarden, JShelter, Indie Wiki Buddy, RuTracker (access to the site), I still don't care about cookies, Return YouTube Dislike, and Search by Image.

[Kalka]

I've been using internet for... many years.

My first rowser was internet explorer. Basic but it was the only thing I knew. Much much later, I moved onto Opera but when they sold to a Chinese circa 2016 iirc. Then I moved onto Firefow until they removed the

Does Firefox sell your personal data?

Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

part which infuriated me because I really thought they'd do better than that. I moved onto Librewolf since and I'm pretty happy with it so far.

[MushroomMoss]

Opera. Used to use firefox but it's been having weird glitches lately that I can't fix, and I don't like Chrome. Opera has some cool customizability features I love too :)

[wanderingartist]

I've been a huge fan of Helium recently, an ungoogled Chromium alternative that's built for privacy and speed, it's ridiculously fast.

I also use Zen (a Firefox fork) for the aesthetics, it's a really pretty browser with a lot of cool functions, but it's not quite as fast as Helium (or Chrome, even, sadly.)

[IndigoGolem]

I recently decided that maybe i should have a dedicated browser for the Terraria wiki. It's a pretty wiki heavy game. So i downloaded a bunch of browsers and did some simple performance tests. Loading time & memory usage for my site's homepage (though most of the browsers didn't show me a loading time), and how well they work for Terraria's wiki. The results of that are in the attached image.

I'm probably going to stick with LibreWolf as my everyday browser, though i might look into using Falkon more. I've settled on Elinks as my wiki browser for Terraria, though i might switch to NetSurf if i need support for images. Dillo used to be great for this, but i had to reset my system and when i reinstalled it it stopped working.