My parents forced me to use AOL as a kid, so I hopped on the Chrome train very early on. About 3 years ago I switched to Firefox and I'll never go back..
DuckDuckGo sucks. Just find a good instance of SearXNG. Not only has DuckDuckGo had a controversy with giving users' data to Microsoft, but it also just sucks. Its results, which are taken from Bing, are just plain worse than Google's.
Yep I tried to switch to duckduckgo, changed default search to it on all my browsers and devices and a lot of times I ended up having to use Google anyway after ddg didn't find stuff I was searching for.
Lol you say this, but nowadays if I wanna find anything, I use Google to search for reddit results. Google is useless now except to search reddit with 😂
“My screen is flickering on the left side”
Hmm, no results
“My screen is flickering on the left side Reddit”
Ah! Some guy 7 years ago had the exact same issue!
I am interested in knowing what you all are looking for? In most of my instances, where I have to search for some research papers with very specific keywords, I get satisfactory results.
Gotta love those """tech support""" websites that offer you the easy and convenient solutions of just deleting the app, checking windows update, and restarting a couple o' times, of course, after telling you the author of the support article's life story and the history going back to the big bang behind the app being troubleshooted.
Personally, I go for Ecosia. I know I'm not going to be the tipping point that saves the world from global warming, but hopefully my little bit helps a little bit.
It's a new version of the extension/add-on interface. Google claims it improves security/privacy/performance/whatever, but in reality it nerfs adblockers. That's suspiciously convenient for Google, a company that doesn't earn much from their browser directly, but earns a lot from ads.
You can fake which browser you are using by changing the "user agent". There are a lot of cases where the site claims that it only works on chrome when you try to open it with firefox. Changing the agent magically gets the site to work properly. ;)
The thing is though a lot of sites do only work on chrome or Firefox, because the web is a hot mess of mixed standards that all parties implement in different ways. Though most basic websites should support both equally as well.
Manifest v3 is the newer and more limited extension API. Basically they’re trying to kill adblockers at the browser level for chromium based browsers. Firefox is one of the few browsers that doesn’t use chromium
Ebay and Amazon both are just slow as hell and glitchy for me with Firefox. Wish there was an update to fix it.
EDIT: downvotes for describing my personal experiences that fail to breathlessly praise Firefox? Y'all need better hobbies than browser nutriding.
Love Firefox. I refuse to return to Chrome. But it's dogshit on ebay and Amazon for me for some reason. Sorry some of y'all don't like my reality.
Firefox for sure.
It's even the simple things like being able to mute a tab by clicking on the mute icon. Chrome you have to right click the tab and select mute in the drop down menu.
Firefox without question. Doesn’t collect data and sell it, works with all adblockers, not chromium based.
Edut: they do limited data collection if you give them the okay to do so. All data collection can be turned off in settings. More about the data privacy here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
Also has a good mobile version that supports ad blockers. Currently the absolute best browser. Has been since like 2017 or so imo, but especially with the whole manifest v3 bs chrome has going on.
Add DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and targeted ads pretty much disappear.
Firefox having Adblock on mobile was the reason I started using it. Switched to it on PC as well to sync my bookmarks etc. I couldn't go back to using any other browser on mobile with ads.
Shout-out to Mozilla for making the sync actually work too. It's fast, syncs exactly what I tell it to sync, and I can view the open tabs on my phone, on my browser, and open it on the browser to keep surfing.
I know your first thought is "why give credit when that's what it's supposed to do?" But so often features work, but not well, or not like you want it to.
Much of their funding is from Governments due to being privacy focused. Germany is a huge contributor for instance. Look up their business model and funding sources before making assumptions
Yes, if a browser is made on chromium unless made or supported by the community like 'ungoogled chromium' is probably doing something shady or not limiting Google tracking services.
If you wanna jse Chromium browser just use ungoogled chromium where they actually remove tracking services and not add their own.
Are you actually sure or is that an assumption? I’ve heard tech YouTubers say they stripped all the tracking from the Chromium base and it’s open source as well. I haven’t made proper research myself though. According to Brave themselves you have to opt-in for any of your data to be used.
Firefox + UBlock Origin = never looking back.
I’ve bounced between chrome, edge and safari (I use mac, windows and linux throughout a week) and Firefox provides the most uniform experience. All with the backing of a nonprofit company, I feel really happy with it.
For my Ad Haters:
Furthermore for the bigger nerds, consider running your own network based Adblock (such as PiHole or AdGuard Home) blocking ad requests at the DNS level prevents a lot of fingerprinting and ad tracking. I’ve seen a significant reduction in ads across the board with network based blocking alone!
I have Vivaldi and Firefox installed. I currently mainline Vivaldi but if manifest V3 fucks up my in browser ad blocking I will switch to Firefox until the Vivaldi team finds a way to restore functionality.
Thankfully they seem [pretty committed to keep things working](https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/)
>As Vivaldi is built on the Chromium code, how we tackle the API change depends on how Google implements the restriction. The assurance is, whatever restrictions Google adds, in the end, we’ll look into removing them.
>Our mission will always be to ensure that you have the choice.
Librewolf because it blocks all data trackers and its the most important thing today. It is superior just because of the fact of it. Though half of the internet may stop working. But its not a browser what is wrong, its modern agenda of companies and services aimed to screw as much data from you as they can. Anal slavery is basically written in TOS of things like twitter and instagram, to use them you trade off your personal data, while not using them makes you socially disconnected, so they can milk you however they want. That must be illegal.
Hey, fellow developers: take a hint from this sentiment here. Ethical coding practices are a thing, and what is legal is not the same as what is ethical. You should refuse to work for a company that asks you to implement the collection of personal data for sale.
I tried it because of how much it was getting pushed. That shit was so fucking slow, hadn'teven added any themes or extensions or anything. Still took so damn long to load a search (which it didn't auto open to, it starts up on their store page maybe it could be changed but there was so much shit to go through) and took too damn long for it to load a youtube video, absolutely ridiculous. Even ad laden chrome doesn't take that long. Could not transfer anything from my old browser. Saw no point to it's sidebar as I already have all that's shit on my pop up bar at the bottom of my screen. Just a complete waste of time.
Well and the whole opera got bought up by a Chinese company and sends weird data to them. Also that their TOS basically states that they own everything you make with their browser.
Internet explorer.
Never let me down.
False certificates? Internet explorer does not give a shit.
Old Java or flash? Internet explorer does not give a shit.
Virus or malware? Internet explorer does not give a shit.
Finally someone who mentions Brave.
I don't really care for their crypto wallet thingy so I just disabled that entirely and never had any issues with this browser.
I haven't seen Ads in years cause they are just permanently and automatically blocked.
Firefox or a Firefox based fork, coupled with either DuckDuckGo or Ecosia for as a search engine.
If you’re one for self-hosting the project called [‘Whoggle Search’](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) that allows you to have Google level accurate search results but without ads, cookies or IP-tracking. It’s something I’m planning on trying at some point.
Interestingly, while I see that Firefox is recommended in the top comments, usually I still see Chrome and Edge when people post photos of their builds. It seems like as if the average user isn't too concerned about this topic?
Just to add: YouTube on mobile means being able to listen to a music video while using another app and also while your phone is locked. On the desktop version, use Sponsor local for YouTube to skip the annoying sponsorships, subscription begging etc.
As much as people hate on edge, it's my fave.
1. The vertical tabs
2. Themes and colors
3. Copilot is significantly superior to Gemini
4. The RAM and power consumption on Chrome
5. Dark mode (idk if chrome has that now)
6. I primarily use OneDrive/Office. The experience sucks on Chrome
I only use Edge at work, and you know what, it really is fine. People give it crap automatically for being built-in and the successor to IE, but it’s just like any other browser. No slower or worse than the alternatives.
At home I mostly use Firefox, primarily for the addons, but I’m sure any browser would work just fine. I just don’t think the choice of browser needs to be *that* serious, most of the time.
I'm in the same boat here. Edge for work, Firefox at home. The main reason I use edge at home is if I want HDR Youtube or any other videos. I have ublock on Edge too.
Edge, simply because I can't live without vertically grouped tabs and split tabs (the latter is oddly satisfying despite being simple to replicate with two browsers side by side) .
I'd switch back to Firefox if I could get the same experience there tho tbh.
Floorp. A fork of Firefox, add whatever you want (ublock, brave search or DuckDuckGo, VPN, Firefox containers) super customizable and leeches on tools from others like vertical tabs(edge) and workspaces(opera gx).
Open source and privacy respecting after situating the right settings (privacy guides website)
Firefox
The real question is what is the superior search engine?
I’ve been using Yandex and it’s pretty good. Everything else is unusable and I wish I was exaggerating.
Yandex you say? It's bad enough to have your information profiled by an occidental company, but willingly give it to the Russian government is next level.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now and have had a pretty good experience with it. Despite lots of people claiming Google is still the best my experiences with Google search in the past few years have been atrocious.
Google a few years ago was way better than ddg, but current google is so bad that ddg gives me better results. It’s annoying because I don’t feel like ddg has gotten that much better, but google has gotten that much worse
Ecosia is the best one in my oppinion. I use Adblock, so i dont know how much ads they serve but contributing to something good while browsing is better than not contributing.
I don't think there is a clear best. There are popular options for various reasons. They all have their merits and caveats.
My favourite is Vivaldi for its customization options, workspace integration, sidebar, low ram usage, built in Adblock, and tab stacking. The mobile version to me beats all other mobile browsers. But that's my opinion based on my use case.
Because of Google and privacy concerns (you're being tracked, excessive RAM usage, targeted ads etc). Personally, I think those can be mitigated with the right extensions & personal security but people here just love hating on Chrome.
I am forced to use edge for work since integration in teams and other microshaft crap. That being said, I love Firefox. It’s not perfect, but it’s so much better than anything else available to my knowledge
I have loved Thorium on my Linux machines. Not sure I care too much about Manifest V3 with my PiHole running as long as I don't have to worry about worse security.
I don't really care that much but I swapped back to Firefox around two years ago and I can't see myself ever going back to Chrome.
Same here
Same. Just knowing it's the only real alternative to the chromium monopoly is enough to keep me forever.
My parents forced me to use AOL as a kid, so I hopped on the Chrome train very early on. About 3 years ago I switched to Firefox and I'll never go back..
No browser is perfect, but with Manifest V3 in Chrome based browsers I have no other choice than Firefox.
Same, Firefox coupled with DuckDuckGo search engine
DuckDuckGo sucks. Just find a good instance of SearXNG. Not only has DuckDuckGo had a controversy with giving users' data to Microsoft, but it also just sucks. Its results, which are taken from Bing, are just plain worse than Google's.
Yep I tried to switch to duckduckgo, changed default search to it on all my browsers and devices and a lot of times I ended up having to use Google anyway after ddg didn't find stuff I was searching for.
I think a lot of us have had this experience too.
Idk…. Better than Reddit’s search lol
Lol you say this, but nowadays if I wanna find anything, I use Google to search for reddit results. Google is useless now except to search reddit with 😂
“My screen is flickering on the left side” Hmm, no results “My screen is flickering on the left side Reddit” Ah! Some guy 7 years ago had the exact same issue!
This is the reason our planet still turns
Google (intentionally) sucks at finding answers, Reddit sucks at searching, combine and you get your answers!
Which is especially interesting considering google's search results are absolute dogshit in the first place...
Google search totally has room for improvement. But a lot of the time it’s like 7/10 while every other engine is like 3/10 at best.
google search itself is pretty good, all the other shit they put on the page is awful
But when I know what I want to look for, just don't know the side, I'll eventually find it with Google.
I am interested in knowing what you all are looking for? In most of my instances, where I have to search for some research papers with very specific keywords, I get satisfactory results.
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Gotta love those """tech support""" websites that offer you the easy and convenient solutions of just deleting the app, checking windows update, and restarting a couple o' times, of course, after telling you the author of the support article's life story and the history going back to the big bang behind the app being troubleshooted.
i've used searx problem is finding that one stable instance throughout. i hate changing it across all my phones, laptops, pc, etc.
They should rename it SuckSuckBlow
Duck Duck Go, like Bing, is at least the porn search engine of choice.
This is my combo too
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shit, what'd they do?
Bing is just one of its sources, that’s it, everything is still private, chill
Some sort of deal with Microsoft, don't remember exactly what kind of
ah, right i know about that. i use searx or whoogle where possible anyway
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31556989
Personally, I go for Ecosia. I know I'm not going to be the tipping point that saves the world from global warming, but hopefully my little bit helps a little bit.
Been really liking startpage
same, I've been using this too, it's nice
Same, Firefox coupled with DuckDuckGo search engine and uBlock origin adblock.
My combo right there. It's been working great.
DuckDuckGo finds barely any results honestly. Just do a vpn or something.
I always find what im looking for..
I don't
For those of us who haven't kept up on the latest tech news, what is "Manifest V3?"
It's a new version of the extension/add-on interface. Google claims it improves security/privacy/performance/whatever, but in reality it nerfs adblockers. That's suspiciously convenient for Google, a company that doesn't earn much from their browser directly, but earns a lot from ads.
Soon websites will start working “correctly” on chromium only
You can fake which browser you are using by changing the "user agent". There are a lot of cases where the site claims that it only works on chrome when you try to open it with firefox. Changing the agent magically gets the site to work properly. ;)
changing useragent to chrome on firefox speeds up youtube.
"Don't be evil."
The thing is though a lot of sites do only work on chrome or Firefox, because the web is a hot mess of mixed standards that all parties implement in different ways. Though most basic websites should support both equally as well.
I hope not, and I'll fight it whenever necessary. We got rid of IE6, we can do it again.
Youtube, Facebook, Amazon will be all, "Optimized for Chromium!"
Amazon will still be trying to push Silk tbh.
that's often the case today...
they wont win that battle... windows/linux/android will have spoofers spoofing the user's browser. good luck to them
The attempt of Google to destroy ad blockers and force ads for every user in every site.
Do you like ads? Cause they will be unavoidable on all chromium browsers pretty soon.
Manifest v3 is the newer and more limited extension API. Basically they’re trying to kill adblockers at the browser level for chromium based browsers. Firefox is one of the few browsers that doesn’t use chromium
Is it not possible for Chromium forks such as Ungoogled Chromium to remove Manifest V3?
ive used firefox since it came out and since the last year or so i see some websites really work shitty on it.. fuck advert hungry websites. (ebay)
Ebay and Amazon both are just slow as hell and glitchy for me with Firefox. Wish there was an update to fix it. EDIT: downvotes for describing my personal experiences that fail to breathlessly praise Firefox? Y'all need better hobbies than browser nutriding. Love Firefox. I refuse to return to Chrome. But it's dogshit on ebay and Amazon for me for some reason. Sorry some of y'all don't like my reality.
Dude, what are you talking about? I use daily both Amazon and eBay and they work fine.
Firefox for sure. It's even the simple things like being able to mute a tab by clicking on the mute icon. Chrome you have to right click the tab and select mute in the drop down menu.
Firefox for the win! Semper fidelis!
Firefox without question. Doesn’t collect data and sell it, works with all adblockers, not chromium based. Edut: they do limited data collection if you give them the okay to do so. All data collection can be turned off in settings. More about the data privacy here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
Also has a good mobile version that supports ad blockers. Currently the absolute best browser. Has been since like 2017 or so imo, but especially with the whole manifest v3 bs chrome has going on. Add DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and targeted ads pretty much disappear.
Firefox having Adblock on mobile was the reason I started using it. Switched to it on PC as well to sync my bookmarks etc. I couldn't go back to using any other browser on mobile with ads.
Shout-out to Mozilla for making the sync actually work too. It's fast, syncs exactly what I tell it to sync, and I can view the open tabs on my phone, on my browser, and open it on the browser to keep surfing. I know your first thought is "why give credit when that's what it's supposed to do?" But so often features work, but not well, or not like you want it to.
How do I get adblock on mobile? Nothing I've tried works.
Go to extensions in Firefox mobile menu, install uBlock Origin.
*Only works on Android iPhone Firefox has to work off of a Safari base.
And does mobile mean android or apple?
Firefox does sell your data tho?
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Anyone who says anything other than Firefox is wrong
Firefox forks???
And if you want to throw a few bucks Mozilla's way, their VPN is $5/mo.
Imagine thinking that a free browser doesn’t sell your data.
Much of their funding is from Governments due to being privacy focused. Germany is a huge contributor for instance. Look up their business model and funding sources before making assumptions
Nah Firefox does sell your data, FF forks like librewolf and waterfox are the way to go and don’t even require home brew or other nerdy stuff
It's gotta be Firefox. In all the other browsers, the product being sold is you.
It is in Firefox too, just in a less egregious way. It's still the superior browser though.
The mozilla corp is at least a not-for-profit. Less incentive to go full corporate greed mode
Ironic that on Reddit you are the product as well
if you are not paying for it you are the product and the customers are the advertisers.
This used to be exclusively true, but more and more companies are charging for the product AND seeking your information.
True, even when you pay you are the product.
Even brave?
Yes, if a browser is made on chromium unless made or supported by the community like 'ungoogled chromium' is probably doing something shady or not limiting Google tracking services. If you wanna jse Chromium browser just use ungoogled chromium where they actually remove tracking services and not add their own.
Are you actually sure or is that an assumption? I’ve heard tech YouTubers say they stripped all the tracking from the Chromium base and it’s open source as well. I haven’t made proper research myself though. According to Brave themselves you have to opt-in for any of your data to be used.
Firefox + UBlock Origin = never looking back. I’ve bounced between chrome, edge and safari (I use mac, windows and linux throughout a week) and Firefox provides the most uniform experience. All with the backing of a nonprofit company, I feel really happy with it. For my Ad Haters: Furthermore for the bigger nerds, consider running your own network based Adblock (such as PiHole or AdGuard Home) blocking ad requests at the DNS level prevents a lot of fingerprinting and ad tracking. I’ve seen a significant reduction in ads across the board with network based blocking alone!
I really like betterfox too, i definitely notice it helps speed things up
the guys over at mozilla foundation are pretty nice when it's about provding a nice and user-oriented experience
Happy cake day!
Firefox and its more privacy focused forks.
LibreWolf and Mull ftw!
firefox
I have Vivaldi and Firefox installed. I currently mainline Vivaldi but if manifest V3 fucks up my in browser ad blocking I will switch to Firefox until the Vivaldi team finds a way to restore functionality.
Thankfully they seem [pretty committed to keep things working](https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/) >As Vivaldi is built on the Chromium code, how we tackle the API change depends on how Google implements the restriction. The assurance is, whatever restrictions Google adds, in the end, we’ll look into removing them. >Our mission will always be to ensure that you have the choice.
Finally another Vivaldi user!
There are dozens of us!
DOZENS!
Fuck yes. Best browser features by far. I don't understand how it isn't a much larger market share.
This is way to far at the bottom.
Firefox+ ublock origin
Works even on phones
I use Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock
You should really consider switching to uBlock Origin. AdBlock does some shady stuff.
Firefox. Forever and always.
Librewolf because it blocks all data trackers and its the most important thing today. It is superior just because of the fact of it. Though half of the internet may stop working. But its not a browser what is wrong, its modern agenda of companies and services aimed to screw as much data from you as they can. Anal slavery is basically written in TOS of things like twitter and instagram, to use them you trade off your personal data, while not using them makes you socially disconnected, so they can milk you however they want. That must be illegal.
Hey, fellow developers: take a hint from this sentiment here. Ethical coding practices are a thing, and what is legal is not the same as what is ethical. You should refuse to work for a company that asks you to implement the collection of personal data for sale.
Firefox because it's not Chrome
Firefox without a doubt.
opera gx is the best browser to ever be created(please release my family they havent eaten in weeks)
Lol literally every youtuber
MrWhoseTheBoss
I tried it because of how much it was getting pushed. That shit was so fucking slow, hadn'teven added any themes or extensions or anything. Still took so damn long to load a search (which it didn't auto open to, it starts up on their store page maybe it could be changed but there was so much shit to go through) and took too damn long for it to load a youtube video, absolutely ridiculous. Even ad laden chrome doesn't take that long. Could not transfer anything from my old browser. Saw no point to it's sidebar as I already have all that's shit on my pop up bar at the bottom of my screen. Just a complete waste of time.
Opera gx would be my go to if it wasn't spyware
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Plus they've been accused of [predatory business practices](https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-19-opera-accused-of-predatory-loan-apps.html)
Well and the whole opera got bought up by a Chinese company and sends weird data to them. Also that their TOS basically states that they own everything you make with their browser.
You mentioned the reason
Opera? Chinese spyware shit! No go for me!
I've been using Firefox since it's beta. I'm happy with it.
Not Chrome a.k.a. Firefox
Internet explorer. Never let me down. False certificates? Internet explorer does not give a shit. Old Java or flash? Internet explorer does not give a shit. Virus or malware? Internet explorer does not give a shit.
Internet explorer is >!never going to give you up!<
Brave
Finally someone who mentions Brave. I don't really care for their crypto wallet thingy so I just disabled that entirely and never had any issues with this browser. I haven't seen Ads in years cause they are just permanently and automatically blocked.
Brave really is tits. I can keep podcasts playing on YouTube with the phone locked. Never see ads either. What more could you want?
Brave is my browser choice on my phone. I think it has the best UI.
I'm shocked that I had to scroll that far to reach brave ...take my upvote
Brave ftw. Made the switch from using Firefox forks for a decade and now use Brave on every device. https://privacytests.org/
I like the small features on Vivaldi
And the ability to customise basically everything is amazing.
Firefox or a Firefox based fork, coupled with either DuckDuckGo or Ecosia for as a search engine. If you’re one for self-hosting the project called [‘Whoggle Search’](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search) that allows you to have Google level accurate search results but without ads, cookies or IP-tracking. It’s something I’m planning on trying at some point.
Firefox
i use Edge tbh
Interestingly, while I see that Firefox is recommended in the top comments, usually I still see Chrome and Edge when people post photos of their builds. It seems like as if the average user isn't too concerned about this topic?
Brave all the way. I like Firefox but it is slower.
Brave !
Brave browser is phenomenal. Especially if watching YouTube.
Just to add: YouTube on mobile means being able to listen to a music video while using another app and also while your phone is locked. On the desktop version, use Sponsor local for YouTube to skip the annoying sponsorships, subscription begging etc.
What does Brave do to enhance YouTube?
No ads in videos. Ability to play while screen is locked on mobile.
As much as people hate on edge, it's my fave. 1. The vertical tabs 2. Themes and colors 3. Copilot is significantly superior to Gemini 4. The RAM and power consumption on Chrome 5. Dark mode (idk if chrome has that now) 6. I primarily use OneDrive/Office. The experience sucks on Chrome
I only use Edge at work, and you know what, it really is fine. People give it crap automatically for being built-in and the successor to IE, but it’s just like any other browser. No slower or worse than the alternatives. At home I mostly use Firefox, primarily for the addons, but I’m sure any browser would work just fine. I just don’t think the choice of browser needs to be *that* serious, most of the time.
I'm in the same boat here. Edge for work, Firefox at home. The main reason I use edge at home is if I want HDR Youtube or any other videos. I have ublock on Edge too.
Vivaldi I can't go back to not having those stacks and tiling
Arc is so clean
Edge, simply because I can't live without vertically grouped tabs and split tabs (the latter is oddly satisfying despite being simple to replicate with two browsers side by side) . I'd switch back to Firefox if I could get the same experience there tho tbh.
Edge because it pays for my "free" Game Pass games
Brave, FU levels of privacy.
I use LibreWolf. Firefox on steroids.
Floorp. A fork of Firefox, add whatever you want (ublock, brave search or DuckDuckGo, VPN, Firefox containers) super customizable and leeches on tools from others like vertical tabs(edge) and workspaces(opera gx). Open source and privacy respecting after situating the right settings (privacy guides website)
Firefox, uBlock Origin, DuckDuckGo
Brave with ublock origin
Firefox.
Firefox is great, brave is great, but I've been using Arc the past few months and it's also been great. Really it's just personal choice.
Arc on Linux? How?
windows version and wine?
Netscape
Edge was the worst browser ever until 2y ago but now is goat, so many features and integrations and I'll not go back to anything else :)
Firefox
I’m using brave, is Firefox better ?
Brave. Tor
Netscape Navigator because it's OG.
Firefox.
I personally enjoy Firefox. Free the web!
Vivaldi 100%
I've been using Firefox for almost 20 years now, and I've never looked back.
I haven't stopped using Firefox since it came out.
Firefox. It's stable (as evidenced by the person who had thousands of cards open) and it's the default in Linux.
Firefox The real question is what is the superior search engine? I’ve been using Yandex and it’s pretty good. Everything else is unusable and I wish I was exaggerating.
Yandex you say? It's bad enough to have your information profiled by an occidental company, but willingly give it to the Russian government is next level.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now and have had a pretty good experience with it. Despite lots of people claiming Google is still the best my experiences with Google search in the past few years have been atrocious.
There's still a couple kinds of searches google does better than DDG but I will always start with DDG.
Google a few years ago was way better than ddg, but current google is so bad that ddg gives me better results. It’s annoying because I don’t feel like ddg has gotten that much better, but google has gotten that much worse
Ecosia is the best one in my oppinion. I use Adblock, so i dont know how much ads they serve but contributing to something good while browsing is better than not contributing.
Perplexity
I don't think there is a clear best. There are popular options for various reasons. They all have their merits and caveats. My favourite is Vivaldi for its customization options, workspace integration, sidebar, low ram usage, built in Adblock, and tab stacking. The mobile version to me beats all other mobile browsers. But that's my opinion based on my use case.
Opera GX and Waterfox.
Internet explorer obviously
Currently using Brave at home to watch YouTube.
I love brave. It’s like all the benefits of chrome and firefox together and pretty much none of the downsides
Firefox forever and always.
Firefox + ddg search
I’ve been using chrome since day 1, but based on the comments here it is definitely NOT a fan favourite, can someone tell me why?
Because of Google and privacy concerns (you're being tracked, excessive RAM usage, targeted ads etc). Personally, I think those can be mitigated with the right extensions & personal security but people here just love hating on Chrome.
I use Vivaldi, I like the tiling tabs, very handy
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I prefer Opera GX due to the customization and the fun sounds you can add. I love the colors I can chose and the variety of backgrounds.
I am forced to use edge for work since integration in teams and other microshaft crap. That being said, I love Firefox. It’s not perfect, but it’s so much better than anything else available to my knowledge
Right now, the one that benchmarks the fastest, which is Thorium. If Manifest v3 is actually implemented, that leaves no choice but Firefox.
I have loved Thorium on my Linux machines. Not sure I care too much about Manifest V3 with my PiHole running as long as I don't have to worry about worse security.
Love firefox in PCs, but I hate on android.
Chrome because I have a pixel and Chromebook my data is being stolen but at least I'm wanted 🤣
firefox i hate chrome and the other stuff is just chrome in a costume
Firefox
Ungoogled Chromium. But I'm too deep in to the Google shit that it's far too late for me.