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What browsers do you use? Personally, I use Waterfox.
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>>108640649
>>108641077
Use case?
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I use plain Chrome. You may hate ads but seriously Chrome is the only safe and effective way to browse the internet it is literally made by Google the biggest internet company in the world so they know how to keep you secure online so I think it's better to just see some ads every now and then than to risk it and install browsers made by who knows really and using extentions that could very likely be malicious like Firefox and so on.
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>>108641198
You can watch a nice talk by my browser maintainer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbawVeKFLMc
Thank you Landry. I love you. I mean it.
Pic unrelated. It's an architecture I was working on.
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Waterfox, Firefox and Brave.
Waterfox is main, Firefox for some stuff that breaks on Waterfox (and it's easier to keep some extensions installed only on firefox or waterfox), and Brave for stuff that breaks on both.
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FireFox
Edge on battery (laptop)
Tried out Librewolf and Helium. Both just feel slow for whatever reason.
Once Waterfox implements native adblocking (similar to Brave). I will try it again.
On Android I use Elixir.
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recently discovered that Waterfox is based on FF-ESR, so some shit was broken for basically no reason for the last few months. I went in and gutted the Mozilla telemetry myself and am back to regular FF after trying Floorp and several other browser forks.
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>>108640649
I was using waterfox for awhile but they are actually maintained by a proprietary company so I jumped to Ironfox, another opensource Firefox fork with emphasis on privacy. It won't work with Google APIs so I just use Brave for that sincs I have given up on trying to avoid Google entirely.
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Safari for personal
Chrome for work
Arc for work
Firefox for social (Discord + Urbit)
Brave for testing this one site in because it’s Chromium but not Chrome
on Debian I use Firefox ESR and Brave when ESR doesn’t cut the mustard
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>>108642133
No you absolute numbskull. Every browser stores history indefinitely.
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I used waterfox a long time ago, then it got bought by some company and better alternatives popped up.
What's the point? Floorp and Zen are there as well. Did it get better? I heard something about them trying to shove adblocking in but when uBlock Origin has no issues on firefox based web browsers, what's the point?
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>>108640649
I've been using 'hardened' Firefox since ~2009, had zero issues with it since then to this day.
Alongside Firefox I use debloated Brave since ~2018 for specific tasks, also have zero issues with it since then to this day.
Firefox and Brave are the only web browsers worth using in my opinion, that is, if you like configuring/debloating things, tried many others and they do not come close to these two.
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Helium and Safari
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>>108642210
Why do you use waterfox? just install firefox + (optional) betterfox
they are for some reason implementing brave shields into their browser, which is retarded, because ubo is miles better.
>>108641195
any chromium browser has the exact same security benefits as regular chrome. just use brave
>>108642290
Librewolf is made to protect the users privacy, if you dont care about it then this browser aint for you. itll be slower, very inconvenient to use, amongst other stuff.
idk why helium was slow on your end, its also made for privacy in mind but its as fast as chrome, brave or any other chromium browser.
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>>108643997
We'll see if it's any better than uBlock Origin, the only reason Brave implementing such a feature makes it stand out is because of manifest v3 and the eventual removal of v2 support for third party chromium based web browsers specifically.
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>>108643997
>Actually a good idea to stand out from the rest.
which is a shame, it hurts my soul deeply when people say to use brave because "it blocks ads" when brave's whole spiel is to replace websites' ads with their own ads (the BAT stuff)...
i like waterfox so power to them for trying this approach and hopefully in a way that isn't disrespectful to webdevs, but yk
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I used librewolf for a long time but it kept causing issues especially when I was doing shit on normie websites basically I think it is overkill so now I just use default Firefox I go through the settings and make it as secure as possible and install ublock and it is honestly perfect.
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>>108642133
>you can set your browser history to never delete on Vivalid, i dont know any other browsers that let you do this
Cromite
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Safari - online banking
Firefox - web dev and regular browsing
Chrome - for testing
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>>108646271
I switched recently and the difference is night and day. Websites are snappy, Bitwarden integration is better. Firefox was unusable in comparison. Also, Brave has official releases in F-Droid. Firefox is just bad on Android.
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>>108642713
The closet you'll get to modern Netscape is Pale Moon with a theme and the Netscape branding. There's some documentation on how to get Pale Moon more Netscape-like here: https://franklindm.github.io/docs/moonscape/readme.htm
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>>108646652
That makes sense. I agree, I tried Firefox for Android and the experience was just terrible. I use waterfox now. I hear they're integrating brave shields, which I'm not really too interested in, since it still supports the full version of uBlock Origin. But the real reason I use it is because I can't get over the stupid purple theming and unusable interface that Firefox forces on you.
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>>108649561
incorrect. SeaMonkey is a much more full-featured and faster web browser that isn't just an ancient version of Mozilla with a bunch of hacky patches and rebranding maintained by one person. It also comes with the default Netscape communicator 4.8 theme which is very iconic and has the same general layout.
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>>108640649
>desktop
vanilla firefockses
luakit
palemoon is gud and lightweight, but seeing .moonchild production in ~ is.... it didn't have doh support too, like the fuck???? can be solved with proxyfoxy + privoxy though.
>phone
brave is better, but the adblock is fucking sucks. so sumtimes i switch to iceraven for taming hentai/manhwa sites that plagued with gigajilion ads.
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>>108640649
Brave for most stuff.
Firefox for a couple of specific things I want to keep separate.
Old version of Waterfox with NoScript for dodging loginwalls and paywalls.
I guess I still have Konquerer and Links installed, but I don't really have much reason to use them.
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>>108640649
>they picked that logo over this one
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>safari
mobile browising
>zen
day-to-day usage, the one i bank with
>opera portable
for stuff zen cant open (usually drm stuff foids wanna watch on netflix or whatever)
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>>108640649
I used to use waterfox before I realized that using hardened firefox is just better. I guess I kinda miss private tabs.
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On Thorium right now. Firefox browsers are too clunky for me and I actually use the "install page as an app" functionality in Chrome browsers.
Like you can "install discord" without actually installing Discord and get the bonus of addons without installing some tranny's hacks.
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>>108652371
You do know Brave Origin is just de-bloated Brave, you can just de-bloat your current Brave if you really want to use that web browser and you're still on Windows/macOS.
Also Brave Origin is free on GNU/+Linux, which I guess is what most people use here so that's cool I guess.
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>>108640649
I just use firefox always and on every platform.
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>>108640649
Based. Me too.
>>108641195
Anon, the ads are the malicious part of the internet.
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