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What browser do yall use? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to switch to a more privacy focused browser, would like to hear what yall use currently and why.

Edit: I’m currently using edge.

Edit: Thanks everyone for your input. I have decided to go with floorp (a firefox fork) with betterfox. Here's my decision process,

Firefox based browser
- To help with browser monopoly
- I really like the sidebery extension
I chose floorp instead of ff or other ff forks because of the ease of customization
- I also tried zen browser but experienced a bug just from my short usage so I think it's not mature enough for me currently, but I do like the project.
Betterfox + extensions for better privacy settings
- Ublock Origin
- ClearURLs
- Decentraleyes

Did not choose to go with LibreWolf, Mullvad etc because I'm worried about site breakages.

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

I swear this question comes up everyday in Lemmy 😅.

Firefox, I just use Firefox because, it works, it has enough privacy measures, and everyone is looking at the codebase, something that cannot be said about most (if not all) forks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Any issue with websites breaking? Since sites only care about chromium support nowadays

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Not op, but I've yet to encounter a website that doesn't work with Firefox. (In the last 5 years)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there are plenty, you just don't happen to use them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Technically true

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

when i do a lot of them are fixed by just making it pretend to be chrome

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