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Firefox, something Firefox based or something entirely other?

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Firefox because nothing has blocked ads as well as Ublock Origin has. DNS is for other apps but for browser Firefox has been king.

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[–] slazer2au 59 points 2 months ago

Firefox, because it is not chrome based.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

Firefox, with ublock origin and yt high definition plugins, so I can have a decent yt player. I have disabled/hide chrome, I have no need for it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Mull. Hardened Firefox with uBO.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fennec, which is a Firefox clone, and I use it because it allows (allowed) me more customization than the default Firefox.

[–] badbrainstorm 9 points 2 months ago

This: Fennec has better security configuration than Firefox about:config settings in regards to telemetry and whatnot.

Mull is also great! Even more secure and better at stopping phoning home, telemetry, and fingerprinting. Though, Mull tends to break quite a few websites. I use Mull, and switch to Fennec selectively when Mull doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Firefox.
To get away from Chrome as much as possible and becaude my most used plugins from desktop are supported.

[–] nefRrgar 23 points 2 months ago

Firefox. Been using for longtime

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

firefox for most things. Chrome for my banking. The banking app refuses to run on my unrooted phone, because I have apps from f-droid installed, and I have a custom keybooard. And their site only works in chrome. Fuck hsbc

[–] Vash63 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Harsh words for someone who continues to be their client

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

yeah I have a loan with them. otherwise I'd just switch

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Firefox, with ublock & decentraleyes Because I can access all the open tabs from my fedora laptop and because I try to use as less Google apps as possible. Also been using Firefox for more then 15 years now across all my devices.

[–] CrayonRosary 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mull, which is based on Firefox, but removes all the telemetry and stuff. I forget why I chose it over other versions of Firefox. Someone here on Lemmy recommended it.

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

Best android browser

[–] the_toast_is_gone 18 points 2 months ago

I use Firefox because it has Unlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Firefox because of the addons, also because it syncs (weirdly, but still) with Firefox on my pc

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Mull with ublock origin

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Firefox because it has extensions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Firefox for most browsing (especially youtube with ublock), chrome for facebook.

[–] Linkerbaan 10 points 2 months ago

Firefox cause the search bar is on the bottom

[–] Zerfallen 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vivaldi, because it is available everywhere, has cross-platform tab syncing, ad-blocking, and a tab bar on Android.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Firefox with extensions or mull

Edit: and why?

Firefox to use my synced bookmarks and share open tabs from pc.

Mull for better privacy (i personally like to disable javascript and change my DNS to quad9)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Waterfox. A fork of Firefox.

[–] LaserdiscTurtle 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Firefox because it's plugins make mobile browsing bareable. I have a folding phone so I wish that Firefox would hurry up and copy Chrome's multi window feature, and then it would be the perfect browser for me.

I use Firefox on desktop too, but I've been experimenting with Arc the last few weeks to see what the fuss is about.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Firefox beta with ublock and a paywall block list, works perfectly for 99% of the web

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Firefox for trusted sites, Firefox Focus for everything else. Adblock by default and drops all cookies and history when you close the browser.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Vivaldi mainly for desktop sync, it's chromium so it has good compatibility, PWA support, and it has ad/tracker blocking though personally I use adguard systemwide. also it's very customizable with navigation and appearance

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Cromite. It's easily the fastest browser i've used. Good baked in adblock is all I really need, and the increased performance and compatibility vs firefox is nice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Firefox with uBlock Origin and NoScript.

I don't like ads, or websites using JavaScript for anything I don't approve of, or unnecessarily.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Firefox bc it has ublock and I think more useful extensions are on the way And I can send my tabs to all my devices very easily

[–] zer0bitz 7 points 2 months ago
[–] filister 7 points 2 months ago

Firefox Nightly because of the extensions, Libredirect, uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Firefox personally, Arc for work

[–] Argyle13 6 points 2 months ago

Firefox with a couple of extensions. But i have to use chrome with some webs (mainly from the town council, and several official institutions) because don't work properly with Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Fennec F-Droid, which is based on Firefox. I mostly use it because I want a non-chromium based browser and Firefox and it's derivatives have browser extensions on android. I chose Fennec F-Droid because, while I could be wrong, it seems to be slightly smaller and run slightly faster than Firefox.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mull and the duckduckgo app

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] conrad82 5 points 2 months ago

Firefox because I like the UI and I think chrome has gotten too dominant.

Brave if I need to chromecast something

[–] then_three_more 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iceraven (Firefox fork)

Cromite

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

Firefox. It's a slow buggy mess, but it's a slow buggy mess with an adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Chrome, I'm deep into the Google ecosystem at this point. But i use DDG for my search engine because Google's has gotten noticeably worse for my job in the past year or so

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Using GrapheneOS, so I use Vanadium

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