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Which browser do you use and why? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Using firefox but concerned now

Read about some alternatives:

Edit 2/28: It seems there is no general consensus if we should switch and/or to what.

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[–] penguin202124@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Firefox with Arkenfox. I'm not going to help the Chromium monopoly. The changes suck, but oh the hell well.

Edit: Switched to Librewolf because I was too lazy to reinstall Arkenfox. It's great!

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mostly fennec (firefox) on android but there are concerning news every half year about firefox. No idea how long I can withstand.

Vanadium is my alternative but it has no (good) browser tab overview (list instead of huge squares). And bottom navigation is sub par as well. Brave would be better in that regard but vanadium is rock solid.

As soon as firefox drops ublock, I'm out. For me, that day is still far away, but I guess it's inevitable. You can't trust firefox not chaning their path anymore. :'( .

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right now I use mainly Firefox, not because I like it but because it comes with my distro (whereas LibreWolf requires Flatpak) making it work well with the PWA project and it supports weird hacks necessary to install Widevine on my system so I can listen to Tidal. I also have LibreWolf installed with data set to delete on close and set up to proxy over Tor and I2P using privoxy and has LibRedirect installed which is set up to redirect to the corresponding onion/i2p domains. I was trying to install Zen Browser using the Guix package manager earlier but had problems, but I might try again later.

On Android, I use Vanadium for sites I stay logged into, Cromite with auto clearing history for other stuff, and Ironfox for Kagi and to use plugins like LibRedirect.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Mullvad browser, simply I used to used hardened Firefox but a pre-hardened one is so much more efficient

[–] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Check articFox

[–] rando@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Using a firefox derivative I dont think is a good option as it will always be behind on security updates.... I guess I am going to wait until the Orion Beta / software comes to Linux which was announced recently. Orion is a WebKit based browser that is on iphone / mac

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

As of late using konqueror, it quite bs-less

[–] Patrik@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Fennec on mobile, haven't gotten around to replacing FF on Desktop yet.

[–] bubbalouie@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Firefox because I don't fuck around. ublock origin, betterfox, and nextdns. My config ensures there is that one site I need to use ungoogled-chromium for, once a month.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Falkon, because it's fully integrated to KDE. Though I wish an actual Qt web browser running Gecko (or Servo, maybe one day) existed.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Librewolf (I love the privacy) Tor browser (To browse onion sites/View webgl websites or privacyintrusive sites)

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm curious, how do you find your site's? Is the whole ecosystem sketch?

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[–] huggingstars@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Firefox on Desktop. Chrome or Vanadium on Mobile.

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I was thinking of switching to one of the Firefox forks but have only tried Waterfox so far and not super impressed. I guess Firefox is the best out of the bad bunch until I find an alternative I like.

[–] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Interesting. What did you dislike about waterfox?

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[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Librewolf, which is great, but I have been desperate for alternatives for a long time now. I also use Falkon and Gnome Web on the side and those are ok, but unfortunately not on the level of Firefox and its ilk. I've been considering Waterfox and GNU IceCat also, but honestly the overall situation is depressing. Currently, Librewolf ticks most of my boxes, but every browser has some issue or another that I'm not keen on. I have no idea what the next step is.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Ungoogled chromium. It's faster then firefox in nearly everything I test, doesn't have stupid issues like not rendering gradients properly.

I use firefox on my desktop for one single reason, and that's because there is literally nothing for chromium, that is remotely close to simple tab groups.

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