I swear this question comes up everyday in Lemmy π .
Firefox, I just use Firefox because, it works, it has enough privacy measures, and everyone is looking at the codebase, something that cannot be said about most (if not all) forks.
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Any issue with websites breaking? Since sites only care about chromium support nowadays
Not op, but I've yet to encounter a website that doesn't work with Firefox. (In the last 5 years)
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I've had a couple sites break but idk if that's because of Firefox or because of my privacy add ons.
The only broken thing is very specific stuff like Slack calls. In fact, it's the only broken thing I've seen in a long while. Also fuck Slack.
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Please stop recommending vanilla Firefox. Although you could argue that it is less privacy invasive than Chrome, Edge or at leat fucking Opera, it still invades your privacy WITH DEFAULT SETTINGS. For a solid out-of-the-box Browser you can choose:
- LibreWolf (Firefox fork thatβs just plain good)
- Mullvad (based on Firefox and created in collaboration with Tor Browser devs - if paired with VPN (e.g. Mullvad) anonymity can be archived)
- Tor Browser (anonymity can be archived)
I'm sorry but I won't bother switching to a ultra-minor browser for having to toggle something in the settings once every 2 years after 500 articles pop up about it.
more privacy focused browser
Librewolf is the best, Mullvad Browser is cool, if you use their VPN, ungoogled-chromium is good, if you need a chromium based browser. Despite its popularity among privacy-enthusiasts Brave is virtually a spyware.
How up to date is that info about Brave? Because their default search is brave-search, not Google as claimed.
Not 100% up to date, of course, but for the most part, it still applies. And furthermore, trusting a company with that kind of reputation is definetely not a good idea.
What is their reputation? Genuinely asking, Iβve been ignoring Brave since ever, but lately I thought I should evaluate it for broken sites that depend on chromium.
I think Mullvad is great even if you don't use their VPN :)
Good choices. I too run Librewolf by default, with ungoogled Chromium standing by for the occassional asshat website intentionally designed to work exclusively on Chrome
Cromite is a good brave alternative without crypto, built-in adblocking, secure defaults (better security hardening), and cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Android). Best experience is on Android. Cromite is an actively updated fork of Bromite, released by a former contributor of Bromite. Cromite also comes without any proprietary libraries on Android (unlike Brave, Mulch, or Vanadium).
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firefox on desktop: to keep away a browser monopoly for another day.
iceraven on mobile: more extensions.
Librewolf is pretty good, i like having privacy features out of the box
Zen browser. Its a browser that looks like arc browser but its based on Firefox and has tracking removed. Its really nice. They also have their own theme system to change how the browser looks and acts
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Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !
It's a Firefox fork btw
Mull on mobile, mullvad and Firefox on desktop
Librewolf
Mullvad Browser when I'm on my Desktop, which is basically the Tor Browser but without the Tor network. The Mullvad Browser is instead designed to be used with a VPN.
Vanadium when I'm on my phone, which is is a hardened variant of Chromium providing enhanced privacy and security, similar to how GrapheneOS compares to AOSP.
And when I'm at work or using any other computer I try to mainly use Firefox.
Firefox because of extensions on mobile, literally the only browser capable of that
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Librewolf for anything that does work, Brave for anything that works only on Chromium based, and Mullvad for all the crazy.
On Android it's Mull and Mulch.
Instead of Mulch I would recommend Cromite. It is fully open source (free of proprietary dependencies unlike Brave and Mulch), has anti-fingerprinting (unlike Mulch), and has built-in ad-blocking. Browser comparison table made by the Developer of Mulch: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
I use Vanadium for that level.
Vanadium does not provide adblocking/content-block, comes with proprietary dependencies, and provides no fingerprinting protection.
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I second librewolf
LibreWolf.
Firefox then additional hardening through arkenfox.js, minimal extensions - uBlock + Bitwarden.
firefox with no script.
plus "I don't care about cookies" and "Cookie AutoDelete" for my sanity...
Edge isn't private so you have plenty of ways to improve
Librewolf + uBlock Origin on desktop. Mull + uBlock Origin on mobile.
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Firefox with plugins. If we want there to be anything but Chromium and Safari in the future it's simply what needs to be done. Forks of Firefox will disappear when Firefox does ...
A combination of Zen-browser, Firefox and Librewolf.
Tor Browser
If you want to stick with Chromium-based browsers, you could try Vivaldi. I am a Firefox user myself but Vivaldi is my backup browser for those rare occasions where I have issues. 95% of the browser is open source, with the remaining 5% being comprised of the closed source UI. Vivaldi has a pretty reasonable privacy policy, an inbuilt ad-blocker and is a 100% employee owned company. It supports all major operating systems and has a sync feature so you could use it as your main browser across all devices if you wanted.
Depends on which computer I'm using. Netscape 4 still works relatively well, as long as you're selective about which sites you try to access.
librewolf on my laptop, firefox with ublock origin at work and on mobile
Iβm using primarily LibreWolf at home too, but every now and again there are websites that wonβt work with it. So I still keep Firefox around for that because I havenβt figured out how to add exceptions to specific sites for LW.
Might actually be a good privacy strategy though. The sites that break are probably the most invasive. So it could be better to run them on a different browser thatβs what you normally use, perhaps with efforts to spoof fingerprinting. Other than not visiting the site, of course, but itβs a decision you gotta make.
On mobile the only choice is Mull. And on desktop even you could use Arkenfox, but recommended to you to use the Mullvad brower
i use hardened firefox but i also use vivaldi when i need to use chromium for whatever reason
PC - Firefox with ublock, multi container extension Android - Mull with ublock extension, i delete data on exit
firefox but hardened. dont want to use any chromiumed browser bc of the monopoly, and librewolf is just a fork of firefox so too little difference to switch
Falkon on my Surface Go and Firefox on my Desktop.
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