Which browser do you use and why?

[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.

[otter@lemmy.ca]

I have only tried Zen from your list and it's been nice so far. The most recent update last night broke something with the multi account containers, but other than that it's been smooth sailing for months.

Ladybird looks promising but it's not out yet. Planning to try switching to it when it's out.

Arc is apparently dead (or dying), but it was chromium based, VC funded, and Zen does most of the same things anyway. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company-ai-browser-arc

[krimson@lemmy.world]

Firefox. I can't imagine they would do something stupid like this with the little marketshare they have, but nothing surprises me anymore.

Does ublock work with any of these alternatives?

[mwa@lemm.ee]

Librewolf (I love the privacy) Tor browser (To browser onion sites/View webgl websites or privacyintrusive sites) Cromite (Mobile only)

[banazir@lemmy.ml]

Librewolf, which is great, but I have been desperate for alternatives for a long time now. I also use Falkon and Gnome Web on the side and those are ok, but unfortunately not on the level of FireFox and its ilk. I've been considering WaterFox and GNU IceCat also, but honestly the overall situation is depressing. Currently, Librewolf ticks most of my boxes, but every browser has some issue or another that I'm not keen on. I have no idea what the next step is.

[burghler@sh.itjust.works]

I'm curious, how do you find your site's? Is the whole ecosystem sketch?

[ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

IIRC, it's one of the few add-ons that does work with Librewolf.

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The fingerprint protections in Librewolf already protect against canvas fingerprinting. You actually make ourself stand out even mkre by using it. Even with RFP disable, ETP still protects against canvas fingerprinting.

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

No, because the Mozilla's new policy doesnt apply to forks.

[drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Ungoogled chromium. It's faster then firefox in nearly everything I test, doesn't have stupid issues like not rendering gradients properly.

I use firefox on my desktop for one single reason, and that's because there is literally nothing for chromium, that is remotely close to simple tab groups.

[engywuck@lemm.ee]

Brave, FOSS. Because it's the best one I have found for my use case.

[engywuck@lemm.ee]

Nothing. Just echo chamber hysteria.

[viri4thus@feddit.org]

Uninstalled firefox yesterday. Trying out vivaldi, the company lead has a history of advocacy. Might give librewolf a go soon, need a browser that ping pongs mobile and desktop seamlessly, has ad blocks available and a flatpack.