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

  • zekiz@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • pushka@beehaw.org
      10·
      1 year ago

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

        • pushka@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ah yes, I think I heard of it ages ago; though it’s based on chromium so add blocking may stop working in 6-12 months,

          • zekiz@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            No. It is already in effect for over half a year.

            It won’t compleatly stop working but it makes it way more useless

  • LolaCat@beehaw.org
    27·
    1 year ago

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

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
    19·
    1 year ago

    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.
    • XLRV@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Firefox FTW!

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

    • Poopasite1@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

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

      Wait its going to be unsupported after?

      • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
        4·
        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.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.ml
    17·
    1 year ago

    Firefox gang 😎 I don’t get the hate, the browser has been great for decades

  • Dave@lemmy.nz
    16·
    1 year ago

    I use Firefox.

    It’s 90% because I remember the days of Internet Explorer and how they had a monopoly and could do whatever they liked - and they did. It was pretty common to have to write two versions of code so that it would work on IE as well as other browsers.

    These days Edge, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, pretty much all the major browsers except Firefox all use the Chromium engine, which puts them in a similar position as IE were in during the 90s and early 2000s. It scares me, so I use Firefox.

    • solairusrising@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      DuckDuckGo is my default search engine now

      How is that working for you? I am thinking of switching in my quest to get out of google stuff

      • wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Great, occasionally have to switch search engines to get certain kinds of results but that’s true with Google as well

      • LlamaLover@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        I tried that for quite a while but ultimately gave up. For many (technical or non-English) topics, I found no fitting result of my search on the first page.

  • linear
    15·
    1 year ago

    firefox.

    nearly every other browser out there except Safari is just chromium with a coat of paint, and i am not a fan of monopolies.

  • Clinodactyl@lemmy.ml
    14·
    1 year ago

    Firefox for me.

    I used to be a Chrome guy for ages but made the switch a few years back after I noticed Chrome was getting a bit bloated.

    • Bicyclejohn@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Just normal Firefox? I used to be a chrome fanboy before learning about the privacy movement

      • Clinodactyl@lemmy.ml
        9·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, just regular Firefox with a few add-ons like adblockers and script blockers and such. It’s got a pretty seamless sync with Firefox on my mobile too.

  • PrivateNoob@lemmy.ml
    14·
    1 year ago

    PC: Firefox (without the arkenson js yet) Android: Firefox too ^^

    I really like that Firefox is one of the rare breeds on the mobile scene which provides some browser extensions too.

    • Communist@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      I just wish they’d add all the extensions to firefox android… and i’d like card style tabs too but i can live without them.

    • bruhSoulz@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      yo question ab firefox coming from dude who knows very little ab it, i watched a video browser tier list by eric murphy and he listed hardened firefox in S tier, do u reach hardened firefox by downloading configs for it off github? how reliable is it and do things tend to crash if u try to have many options at the same time (like an amalgamtion of stuff from different ppl in order to reached a specific desired outcome, in terms of options, security settings and look)?

    • fluffman86@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      😂 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.

  • pain_is_life_is_pain@beehaw.org
    12·
    1 year ago

    Been using Firefox since it came out 18 years ago. Tried a few others for a bit, but always ended up back with the fox. Using it on all my computers and devices. Tried all kinds of plug-ins, currently using ublock, no-script, privacy badger, bloody vikings!, Bitwarden and… I guess that’s more or less it.

    I do have to use Edge a bit for work, just because of some systems that doesn’t really work on Firefox and I don’t want to use Chrome.