firefox on everything I use. no need for anything else. always been a fan of mozilla

Firefox on android and desktop. Never had any reason to use anything else.

Firefox everywhere + uBlock, no script

Librewolf on desktop, Mull (and Fennec) on android. If some important site is broken, I have some chromium based backups without any modifications, which I wipe every now and then.

For Librewolf there are a few interesting privacy addons, most importantly Font Fingerprint Defender. It scrambles the list of installed fonts on the system, so if websites analyze those in order to track you, they will detect you as a new unique user every time you visit their sites.

Firefox on desktop and Android. Plus a bunch of add-ons of course. Never switched away from it, especially not for Chrome.

on android, i have three.

• the default browser is an f-droid rarity called ‘privacy browser’. it is configured to allow scripting but reject practically everything else (storage, cookies). this will break lots of things, but i feel safer with this as the initial offer. it’s wired to a searxng instance for search. i have a personal hosted homepage that it uses for home.
• if i am opening something myself, i use an app shortcut that opens my home page on mull. mull itself doesn’t believe in home pages, so i have to use a shortcut. it uses a searxng instance for search. it’s configured to discard all data on quit. if something breaks on privacy browser, i share it into mull.
• for sites in which i need a persistent login, i use duckduckgo browser, again with an app shortcut since it doesn’t believe in home pages. i don’t open links in ddg, instead sharing them to one of the other two. i don’t search here since you can only use ddg.

on desktop (all platforms), i use brave with a lot of stuff turned off, homed normally and pointed to the same search instance. i have cookie autodelete to burn cookies as i browse. i spend a lot of time manually deleting local storage.

i don’t love this flow. what i really would like is one browser that would:

• load my home page when i click its icon
• burn all cookies and local storage on exit, except from domains i designate

i haven’t found an answer for that yet, would love ideas.

i have previously used and discarded, for various reasons: vivaldi, firefox, firefox focus, chromium, librewolf. i carry some of these for occasional use, either for ‘let it through’ or ‘fuzz all the things’ threat models.

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I use Firefox Beta on Android because it lets you use arbitrary extensions unlike the stable version at the moment. It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but it means that in addition to uBlock Origin on mobile (the killer app of Firefox Android IMHO), I’ve also got Redirector set up to redirect all visits to Imgur/Reddit/sigh Twitter (if I have to) to the proxies out there like LibReddit or Rimgo so I don’t have to log in or be tracked at much. (There’s an extension called LibRedirector that gets recommended that automates the process better, but it’s really flakey in my experience.)

Otherwise just got all the usual security settings turned up.

I use Brave and I actually really like it, but I don’t recommend it to other people because the crypto shit is frankly kind of embarrassing. It takes a fundamentally good piece of software and makes it feel scammy. I wish they would figure out a better business model, but it’s not like I have any ideas.

I’m comfortable just turning all of it off in the settings, but I don’t feel comfortable recommending it to people who are less technical than I am because I can already tell they’ll be like “You said this was supposed to be more secure why is it trying to sell me crypto”

EDIT: Still, though, ultimately whenever I have to use anyone’s “regular” device without adblocking and everything I’m shocked at how annoying the internet is, so Brave is doing its job haha.

I use Librewolf and Mull. On android I think only Brave and Mull with ublock are worth considering, at least until Vanadium gets proper ad blocking support.

Mull on GrapheneOS on my phone, and hardened Firefox (arkenfox) on my desktop/laptop.

I find that this is a pretty capable setup that can handle 95% of what I need to do, and for the other 5% of the time I can fall back to ungoogled-chromium to ensure webpage compatibility

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Firefox with some customisations and uBlock Origin.

I used to use bromite until yesterday when I discovered that it has been abandoned by the main dev. One of the contributions is keeping the browser patches alive in his own repo but not under the bromite branding.

So currently I’m test driving Mulch which includes vanadium and bromite patches. My backup is trusty Fennec :)