Poll: What browser do you use?

[candycanearter07]

Not exactly a HTML browser (it does support it though), but I absolutely A D O R E this html/gemini/gopher browser I found that's called offpunk (https://offpunk.net/). The really cool thing about it (besides being a terminal emulator) is that it saves every page you visit, PERMANENTLY. As in, you can always access it once you visit once, even if you're offline. The other REALLY cool thing about it is that theres this built in FIFO queue called the tour, that you can always add links to from anywhere. You then use the "tour" command to pop the first entry. It's a really cool way to avoid the whole "multiple tabs of stuff i want to look through eventually" or "massive folder of read-later", since the point is you just go through everything one at a time, and send stuff to the back if you want to put it off again. Also it supports native RSS (and any kind of) feed, and auto adds those new links to your tour so you can scan through them in order!!! It's just an insanely cool browser.

[akyra00]

i use firefox + geckium, firefox lets me use ublock and geckium makes it look like old chrome, so its the perfect way for me to go 

[sirenkidu]

Tbh I should probably quit using firefox but im just so used to it so too lazy to switch if im being real

I only use chrome when I need to because sometimes companies just hate firefox. For example, when i had to make a battlenet account (dont even play the game anymore) it just threw me into a bunch of impossible captchas but on chrome it was the easiest ive seen.


Thought about using Opera but heard bad things about it, the same goes for Brave. I would like to try Zen and Vivaldi tho

[Symberzite]

Librewolf, although I have Brave (forgive me) as a backup Chromium browser in case something just doesn't work. 

As a side tangent working on my own website made me subscribe to a bunch of webdev bloggers and they use so much janky-ahh frontends that it won't load on anything except Chromium. I think Firefox-based browsers are a good inoculation against idiots.

I'm so sorry that your NFT crypto site with a billion popups won't open in Librewolf, I guess I'll have to go somewhere else /s

[nvalk1]

Librewolf has been a good option for me so far and seems to be the best balance between privacy and usability.

Like a lot of people have already mentioned, sometimes certain sites force me to use a chromium browser because my privacy is just too bricked up lmao. So with that, I have Ungoogled Chromium installed in case I need to use it.

One thing that's been pissing me off with Librewolf though is that there are a lot of sites that use that stupid Cloudflare verification system and I can never get past those. I think it's because I use a different DNS resolver and if that's the case, that's pretty stupid.

Still though, Librewolf is a great browser and having my extensions is nice too. As for extensions, I have a few:

- uBlock origin (obv)
- Privacy Badger (catches and blocks many non-adware trackers—thanks EFF)
- SponsorBlock (I HATE sponsorshit content and also hate superfluous garbage so I have every block turned on and it makes most videos half as long haha)
- Decentraleyes (blocks stupid CDN javascript injections that make everything worse and bloated)
- Cookie Autodelete (if my cache gets over like 50 MB I get upset)
- cookies.txt (lets me pull a cookies.txt file from YouTube whenever I try to use yt-dlp to download something)

I try not to have too many extensions, especially larger ones, because they slow down the browser and for me, I like my computing experience to be lightning fast.

[moeghost]

god...i always forget about firefox. i didnt realize how many people still use it haha. i've used chrome pretty much forever, i'ts just the one i'm most used to. i like opera as well, but i think i'll always prefer chrome

[Leonia]

I like using Firefox!! I recently picked Pale Moon back up to use basically as a lightweight IRC client with KiwiIRC but I might try some of the others listed in this thread. Offpunk seems awesome and LibreWolf also seems really cool.

[IndigoGolem]

LibreWolf, which i recently switched to from Firefox. I also keep Gnome Web, Netsurf, and Links2 on hand to make sure my site is at least sort of usable in non-Gecko browsers.

[mittens]

usually zen browser. it's firefox-based and aesthetically pleasing :]

for whenever i don't have a mouse/trackpad i use chawan, it's a nice terminal browser with css (and javascript, but i find it crashes most of the time whenever i enable it). sometimes w3m too since chawan gets my ip temporarily blocked from distrowatch :(

chawan does have gemini support, but i prefer using offpunk (mentioned earlier in this thread!) for that. its tour feature is delightful

[schlime9k]

Waterfox is pretty cool, I use it over firefox because of its customisation capabilities and its compatibility with legacy Firefox features, which I like to use and/or keep just in case. Obviously, all browsers do the same basic things so whatever works for you is just fine. I saw Pale Moon used once and I tried to use it for a couple weeks, but it just didn't do some of the things I wanted it to do. For instance; adblock just doesn't seem to work at all on that browser~! Furthermore, I tried to download Minecraft on my Macbook that had the browser installed, and nothing seemed to load right, that was the final straw for me. It's sad, because I liked the layout of it all, IE-esque web interfaces are SO COOL. I'd love to help out in the Pale Moon development but I am NOT a coder, especially in something as complex as web browsers... 

[Codachrome]

i tried to use pale moon as my default, but not only does it not save tabs, it also randomly glitches out with random black scribbles. dk what's up w that

now im using firefox. the ai thing is a bit weird though. maybe i'll switch to librewolf later on

[Arcadia Page]

I mainly use Firefox but recently I also started using Zen Browser which is a fork of Firefox, but it is amazing. Took a little bit to get used to at first, but once I started to understand all the features, it's my favorite browser now.

[EdgyRabbid]

TBH it depends. Is that weird? 

I tend to just use whatever.. unless its Edge. I HATE EDGE!!! >:( (Yes my name is edge, what about it??)

[myleszey]

i tried to use pale moon as my default, but not only does it not save tabs, it also randomly glitches out with random black scribbles. dk what's up w that

now im using firefox. the ai thing is a bit weird though. maybe i'll switch to librewolf later on

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..."

[Tuffy!]

I didn't vote    I have several machines running on different operating systems
A browser not capapble of running a real adblocker plug-in shouldn't be considered as a browser IMHO 

What are your experiences with the brave browser so far?