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I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox because it's one of the last browsers against the Chromium monopoly.

Also UBlock Origin is wayy better on Firefox, even before Google forced their version of Manifest v3 on all Chromium based browsers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And on android, Firefox is the only browser that allows installing ublock-origin and user scripts

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox gang ๐Ÿ˜Ž I don't get the hate, the browser has been great for decades

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox, and ill continue to use it for as long as possible. No thanks Chromium.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox, on my desktops and my phone. Several reasons:

  1. It's relatively trustworthy.
  2. It uses the only non-WebKit-derived browser engine still in active development. Monoculture is bad.
  3. It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox FTW!

I can't imagine using any Chromium browser when ad-blockers stops working.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.

Wait its going to be unsupported after?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Chromium and derived browsers, yes. It already doesn't work in Safari and presumably other WebKit-derived browsers. Firefox will soon be the only browser capable of running a truly effective ad-blocking extension.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Firefox on PC and Android. DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I know all you nerds use firefox, but i'm still on the plebian chrome

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Boo, not even chromium

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

๐Ÿ˜‚ I was on Firefox before Chrome, and happily switched once I learned how much faster Chrome was around 2008. Switched back to Firefox not long after they introduced container tabs and their android browser is so much nicer that now I can't use chrome anymore.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I did the same, except I just switched back to Firefox this past fall. Trying to degoogle myself

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Firefox, for tree style tabs, and to push back against homogenization of the web.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Firefox, I mean, its pretty much the default considering where we are

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I have been using Firefox since 2005. Back then it was over 9000 kilometres ahead of Internet Explorer and was in so many ways better browser. These days it stands as the biggest alternative to Chromium and Google's efforts of gobbling up the web. I don't see any reasons to switch.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Firefox.

I used Chrome for the longest time, but I started having a problem that I thought was Chrome related so I installed Firefox to see if it solved my issue. It didnยดt, and I eventually discovered the actual issue of my problem, but I ended up liking Firefox too much and stayed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Firefox (and I've used it since it was called phoenix, and I've used the free software mozilla suit before that).

BUT I've been very unhappy about the corporate leadership of the project for a long time. I don't trust them at all. They regularly do user hostile shit like ads and tracking and endorsing DRM, then act surprised by user backlash and backtrack partially, only to try again a couple of months later.

Many people who work there are clearly shit-brained corporate silicon valley types, and the leadership most likely cynical money-grubbing grifters.

I hope the various free software degoogled chromium forks all come together to make a good browser. A browser that works on both Linux and Android, that can sync all the stuff between both, and which has no tracking and good ad blocking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Historically Firefox but I've recently been trying out Brave and really like it. I especially like brave on mobile because it automatically strips all the ads out of YouTube.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

firefox on android has ublock origin and when google kills support for what lets adblockers work, apps like brave that are based on chromium will stop working

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Firefox because its pre-installed on pretty much every Linux distro I'd want to try. I've used it for a long time, back in version 2.x. Then I tried out chrome for quite awhile but their pushback against adblockers made me migrate back to firefox. Haven't regretted it!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

librewolf on PC, Mull on my android.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. Couldn't be happier with those two.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I also use Firefox on Windows, Linux and Android.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Firefox, because a) open source, b) ad blocking, and c) fuck Google and other corporate overlords.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ever since I got my first laptop when I was a young teenager it's been Firefox. With Google exploring deleting blockers like uBlock Origin I see no reason to switch.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tor browser and librewolf, but I still have firefox installed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox still has some integrity unlike chrome and its clones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

vivaldi cus its just too gorgeous and so many things packed in face with heart eyes

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox most of the time, replaced by Chrome on one of my configurations, where Firefox would lead to graphic card freezes from time to time. Edge for Teams at work. Opera once in a while because I am nostalgic of the fantastic Opera mini browser on early versions of Android.

Also, Firefox on Android or Fennec on phones without Google Play.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

PC: Qutebrowser (nice, quick, and good native keybinds) iOS: Ecosia (fork of Firefox app that I think is better for my use considering I use Ecosia as my search engine)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Qutebrowser

That's what i call based

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a name I haven't heard in a looong time. I mostly browse from my phone / tablet nowadays, but qutebrowser is such a good vim-like browser experience.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

on desktop - firefox

on android - mull (hardened firefox with telemetry and proprietary blobs removed)

for several reasons: its extremely customizable, open source, extensions like ublock origin work best on it, great privacy, not chromium based (fuck google and a browser monoculture), etc.

mozilla isn't perfect and i don't agree with all of their decisions for sure, but despite that, overall firefox ftw

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox or Vivaldi on pc & notebook, Vanadium & Fennec on Android - Grapheneos.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good to see another grapheneos user

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox on desktop, and DuckDuckGo on the iPhone I'm stuck with :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just use Vanilla Firefox, I use chrome for work but all my personal stuff on Firefox, left chrome after there was talk of stopping ad blockers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mozilla Firefox and Brave, I would say about 85% of my time is spent in Firefox, 15% are webpages that won't cooperate without using Chromium.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox is my browser for life, but I use a lot of them depending on the context. Chromium has very good dev tools that I need for my work. Safari has good battery performance on macOS laptops. Arc has some nifty new ideas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I use firefox because I feel like it's one of the best browsers out there. Brave is close second. Brave although doesn't have enough freedom while switching from one brave browser to another. I mean, firefox allows you to sync your data online (I trust mozilla, so this ain't a problem), but Brave always has been bad in this regard.

Also, I like the fact that firefox is not chrome and idk, I just like the look and feel of firefox

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Web application developer by trade... So, unfortunately Chrome at work. But, at home and on mobile, Firefox 100% of the time!

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