what web browser do you use and why?
I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me
I use geh Firefox forks mull and fennec, I occasionally use vanadium. I just like privacy but tor is overkill for me
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.
And on android, Firefox is the only browser that allows installing ublock-origin and user scripts
Firefox, on my desktops and my phone. Several reasons:
It supports uBlock Origin, and will continue to do so next year.
Wait its going to be unsupported after?
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.
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
Not op but I'm using DDG since many years and I feel like is continuously improving.
In case you miss google or you need a different search you can simply add !g to the search and search on google from DDG (it opens a google page)
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.
Great, occasionally have to switch search engines to get certain kinds of results but that's true with Google as well
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.
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.
It's kinda weird to me that they still haven't added an oled theme, now that I think about it.
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)?
for tree style tabs
Is there a way to turn off the top bar tabs when using the tree tabs?
😂 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.
I did the same, except I just switched back to Firefox this past fall. Trying to degoogle myself
Somewhat trying to figure out why federation isn't working on this instance and this was the first post that I could find on both my home instance in this one sorry
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 didn´t, and I eventually discovered the actual issue of my problem, but I ended up liking Firefox too much and stayed.
Firefox. after the manifestv2 deprecation was approaching for chome I packed up and switched to firefox. I rely on uBlock Origin too much to be lest stuck on a browser it doesn't run on. also the pleasant surprise of full extension support on the nightly android version was a nice touch!
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.
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.
Firefox, because a) open source, b) ad blocking, and c) fuck Google and other corporate overlords.
i dont even blame u i thought so too at the start but i unironically use alot of them now.. use the notes app cus its there and convenient i can attach links and a screenshot to it, quicker than opening another notes app and making a new file specifically for the website i wana talk ab, i use the mail client cus quicker than opening gmail, and the rss thing is smt im just getting into. ik im bringing brave outa nowhere but most of brave's packed in stuff are alot less useful for me xD
wow!!! that's super cool! I mean, I didn't know about these features. You seem to be getting a good deal out of vivaldi
yea xD, also forgot to mention it has ridiculous keyboard shortcuts (tbf u can prolly get those from qutebrowser or maybe firefox if uk what ur doing), and it has dope tab management, u can align the buttons on any side of the screen and u can tile tabs in ur windows kinda like tiling windows managers do, and u can put several tabs in 1 group and open up grid view for that 1 group so that everythings layed out neatly, honestly the only thing this browser needs to be perfect for my standarts is being foss.
Techlore recently interviewed the CEO of Vivaldi on Youtube, check it out, it's really interesting. He talks about not being open source and being based on chromium amongst other things
yoo thats funny i just clicked on video earlier and came here to see u mention it. i was kind of infiuriated (however that word is written) to see that the comments were disabled on odysee but now i clicked it on yt and turns out theyre on, i thought it was like some attempt at preventing ppl from asking the real questions but from what ive seen so far the dude seems like a great guy
Question, is there a way to silence all of Vivaldi's updates? I'm ok with updating in the background but I had to uninstall it because it was so annoying
gahh idk about that one man, personally i dont mind the updates cus im always trying to have the newest features. sorry that was an issue.
Yeah, I guess I got used to other software keeping it out of sight/out of mind. At least on FF it just opens a new tab to let you know but it's otherwise seamless so I was half-expecting the same. Maybe I'll give it another go if I can find a solution or it'll drive me nuts lol
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.
Firefox on PC, Mull on phone and Brave on tablet (until Firefox has tab bar for tablet UI). I can't browse the internet with awful ads, so ublock origin is a must.