Which browser do you use and why?

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

OK! You've had 1 hour to check them out. What's the difference between the two?

[coldwater@lemmy.ca]

I used Floorp, it's balanced well between looks and privacy, you can't even enable data collection if you wanted to

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

Apparently, Floorp is another Firefox fork. Has anyone tried this?

[silentstorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

There was some sort of bullshit going on in like 2003 with Internet Explorer so my dad switched us to Firefox, I’ve been on it since. Never felt the need to go to Chrome when it cane around.

[jamesbunagna@discuss.online]

Trivalent, i.e. "a hardened chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium". Vanadium, for the uninitiated, is the browser found on GrapheneOS; the most secure and privacy-friendly/conscious OS for phones.

[adarza@lemmy.ca]

i've been using firefox and its predecessors since the very beginning, all the way back to pre-release navigator.

i do have (and have always had) other browsers installed (using 'portable' installations of them, mostly, these days). currently those include vivaldi, opera, librewolf and waterfox. at least one of which is added along side firefox on each desktop (most often also with a firefox dev edition). these are mostly for testing but also to separate specific online tasks into their own browser. the chromium-based ones are used for very specific things requiring addons that don't work well or at all with firefox.

unless i need to in order to assist a client, i do not use chrome as provided by google, and i do not use edge from microsoft except for its primary function: downloading another browser when i don't have a flash drive handy with its installer already downloaded and saved to it.

having actually read the policy documents in question and considering the intent and purpose of the changes that mozilla is making, i have no plans on changing my primary browser.

[molten_moron@lemmings.world]

I love Librewolf for PC and Mull for Android.

[filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I use Mullvad Browser. It's maintained in coordination with the Tor Project, and is essentially the Tor Browser with Tor itself stripped out. Same browser fingerprinting protections, however, among other things.

[Guest]

While I'm not sure dropping Firefox is necessary at this juncture, I've had good a experience using LibreFox. Hearing a lot about Zen, though.

Check out Mozilla's clarification:
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/27/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-causes-confusion-among-firefox-users/

[crabandbroom@lemmy.ml]

I use Floorp as my main browser! I like it, it's very customisable and kind of weirdly Japanese lol

[invisiblerasta@lemmy.ml]

I gave up on firefox 1 year ago and went to the dark side with Brave. I am really happy with it even tho part of it is closed source.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

Well how do you interpret them then

[thorned_rose@sh.itjust.works]

Long time Firefox user. Installed Librewolf today and so far so good. I used Firefox sync to get all my settings, bookmarks, open tabs, etc. back.
At some point I will probably find an alternative yo Firefox sync but it'll do for the time being.

[ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com]

I found a decent answer here https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/18g8tez/what_am_i_gaining_if_i_switch_from_librewolf_to/

That mod sums up a lot that I found. I don’t know the answer because they both have odd downsides.

Yes they’re both forks!

[lefantome@programming.dev]

Looking forward to Ladybird but it is very early days. Have been using Zen a lot. And Orion on iPhone.

[Guest]

I think this diff makes it pretty clear its time to run, not walk: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114078708183574404

[kualk@lemm.ee]

What’s wrong with Chromium? License or Google backing?

[grangle1@lemm.ee]

Mull development has been abandoned. You might want to switch to IronFox, the community's fork to continue its legacy.

[sudoer777@lemmy.ml]

Right now I use mainly Firefox, not because I like it but because it comes with my distro making it work well with the PWA project and it supports weird hacks necessary to install Widevine on my system so I can listen to Tidal. I also have LibreWolf installed and set up to proxy over Tor and I2P and has LibRedirect installed which is set up to redirect to the corresponding onion/i2p domains. I was trying to install Zen Browser using the Guix package manager earlier but had problems, but I might try again later.

[allero@lemmy.today]

Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else. GNU IceCat is amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle.