Firefox. I’m not happy with how Mozilla Corp is operating, but I’m not switching to a Firefox fork unless there’s actual developer exodus (akin to what happened to OpenOffice/LibreOffice). Ultimately, at this stage, those forks depend on upstream Firefox developers for 99% of the work.
wait wait, what happened to LibreOffice? I’m trying so hard to not give microsoft money ;-;
Don’t worry, this is very old news.
OpenOffice.org was basically stuck in a bureaucratic hell of their own and couldn’t really do major decisions without the leaders’ approval. I think Sun Microsystems/Oracle was involved.
Some high up developers got basically kicked out by the governing folk, so they decided to start the Document Foundation to make LibreOffice, and vast majority of the developers followed. They were just happy to be actually able to do something.
OpenOffice got donated to Apache Project and there’s been very minimal maintenance on it ever since.
Zen Browser.
In the beginning it was little odd but now I love it. I can’t use either Zen or Firefox at work so there I use Edge. Edge is also a nice browser, I really like the sidebar for mail and drop.
Main browser - Brave Secondary Browser - IronFox
Librewolf/iron fox(Firefox based),Steam (does that count??),Gnome Web (Basically Safari on Linux)
Firefox on Android and PC
Orion on iPad
i honestly tried cromite in the last week, but dark mod is buggy, ublock disables every second day, embedded videos dont show up sometimes, extensions are super slow, ui looks like ass. maybe the reader mode is better just a tad bit…but im back to ironfox.
librewolf on my personal machine and firefox on my work machine (I’m only allowed vanilla firefox or chrome on there)
It’s pretty shocking that Firefox has so much use here! In a quick scan through the thread, I haven’t seen ANY Chrome users! But it’s supposed to be the clear winner of the browser wars, how come so many Lemmy users avoid it? I’m not complaining mind you, I use Firefox itself, but the cultural difference is striking.
I’ve been thinking a bit at how users self-select in different communities. I often make the same comment on Mastodon and Bluesky, and tech topics do MUCH better on Mastodon, despite the considerably smaller userbase, while general social media stuff does a little better on Bluesky. It’s so interesting!
It all boils down to the echo chambers. People who surf web without any adblockers are usually the ones that are not tech savvy as much as the ones who would never surf without uBO. We are on Lemmy after all. This is not a “normie” social media.
I use Waterfox on my laptop/desktop and Ironfox on my phone (with Chromium as a desktop backup, and Vanadium as a mobile back up)
I use Librewolf almost always I try others just for comparison an fun, here are they:
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Librewolf: I use it for its privacy defaults and because it comes with no bloat and no nonsense.
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Konform Browser: A fork of Librewolf but based on Firefox ESR rather than the regular release and focusing in smaller settings improvements. I’ve talked to the developer and they are very nice and seem to fix issues rather quickly. By the looks of it I will be moving to this browser permantly.
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Ungoogled Chromium: For testing webpages, like styles and stuff for my blog.
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Glide Browser: Its basically the Vimium extension + BetterFox. It’s stil in early developement and it looks promising. I prefer Librewolf settings better than Betterfox so this keeps me from using this one.
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Firefox almost exclusively with the requisite plugins. Only using other browsers when a site requires it, like Safari on iOS, but that happens maybe 1-2 times a year. I don’t even have Chrome installed anymore.
Firefox. Vivaldi. Firefox for anything important.
Brave, Firefox focus, opera, and chrome(with js, cookies, and preloading turned off)
I use many, usually Firefox.
Firefox
