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Which browser do you use and why? (lemmy.selfhostcat.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 14 hours 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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[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Looking forward to Ladybird but it is very early days. Have been using Zen a lot. And Orion on iPhone.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 1 day ago
[–] karpintero@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks for this. I'm using mainly Firefox to support alternatives to webkit/blink based browsers but the new ToU makes me a bit apprehensive about the direction they're going.

I also had been test driving Falkon from KDE but will look into these as well.

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

FireDragon because it's the version of Firefox that Garuda ships with and I never saw a reason to change from it.

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

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

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

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago

Uninstalled firefox yesterday. Trying out vivaldi, the company lead has a history of advocacy. Might give librewolf a go soon, need a browser that ping pongs mobile and desktop seamlessly, has ad blocks available and a flatpack.

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.

[–] Kualk@lemm.ee -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What’s wrong with Chromium? License or Google backing?

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[–] InvisibleRasta@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago

I gave up on firefox 1 year ago and went to the dark side with Brave. I am really happy with it even tho part of it is closed source.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Despite my issues with it, I use Chrome. It's simply too integrated into my life. But I just saw (like 2 minutes ago) from another thread here about Zen Browser and maaaan is it nice.

[–] barf@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Zen is good. Arc is decent if you must have a chromium browser for some reason, but not OSS

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Isn't Zen just a skin of firefox, so the same issues? And Arc is VC funded...

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't Zen just a skin of firefox, so the same issues?

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, it seems to use the same engine as Firefox.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

But not a fork, right? Sorry I don't understand it clearly.

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