Which browser do you use and why?
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Mostly fennec (firefox) on android but there are concerning news every half year about firefox. No idea how long I can withstand.
Vanadium is my alternative but it has no (good) browser tab overview (list instead of huge squares). And bottom navigation is sub par as well. Brave would be better in that regard but vanadium is rock solid.
As soon as firefox drops ublock, I'm out. I mean you can't trust firefox not chaning their path anymore.
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This is my lead contender now that Firefox is shitting the bed. Any downsides?
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Mull browser is deprecated, Ironfox is the community fork
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The Google backing. See ublock Origin for example. Google wants less effective ad blockers because ads are 90% of their business. Google removed manifest v2, which is needed for good ad blocking capabilities. Now Chromium, and any browser based on it (Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, etc.), also lose it. Some have said they will manually add it back in to their browser, but that will only be possible for so long as Google’s upstream Chromium base further diverges.
The massive market share of Chromium-based browsers also gives Google near complete control over web standards. There are many websites that use non-standard functionality that only works in Chromium and not Firefox or Safari. Developers also will not adopt new standards unless Google chooses to as well because there would not be enough users to justify it otherwise.
TLDR: Control over Chromium gives Google extremely strong influence over the web and their interests likely do not have much overlap with yours.
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I use DarkReader on Librewolf, works just fine. In fact, all of my extensions work.
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All the
Se downvotes really prove your point.I think I might switch to that.
I used Firefox for cross-platform password management. That’s the biggest impact on me.
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Who cares about downvotes from people which become irrational about a browser engine, lol.
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Firefox. Google removed a valuable addon from their store without justifiable reason and kept it removed because there's not sufficient backlash.
The addon is AdNauseam. It's an improvement on uBlock Origin that clicks adds in addition to hiding them.
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't really see how they can be better beyond philosophical reasons.
I guess bringing back stuff like the proper dropdown menu we had in the 2000s would be an example, but I don't expect most of them to do something like that.
I expect most of them to have some kind of gimmick that isn't relevant to how I use a web browser.
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Practical response.
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The biggest part of people use Chrome-based browsers.
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Firefox. I'm not going to help the Chromium monopoly.
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Privacy, simply better, better anti-fingerprinting.
Sure you can do it with stock Firefox but it's just simpler to have a pre-hardened browser -
Didn't Waterfox get bought out by an ad company?
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Even when using forks of Firefox you are contributing to the Mozilla project and can support it as well
Using librewolf is better than using chrome in term of support for the main devs Mozilla -
Zen as main driver because of its features that are on par with Chromium-based_Vivaldi browser_, and LibreWolf on "older" machines or systems that require stability/consistency. Both are awesome to me.
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Nice, I was unaware, thanks!
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yes and then sold and FOSS again!
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What privacy and fingerprinting concerns are there with Firefox?
simply better
Lol. That's not a reason, ya goof.
