Chromium when some dumb thing forced on me doesn't work for Firefox.
Pale Moon for when some good thing I really want doesn't work for firefox.
I've not heard of this arkenfox before. Going to have to dig in to it.
I'm surprised that Cookie Auto Delete is in the Don't Bother category. Sometimes a look at all these cookies and local storage on all these sites I barely remember ever visiting. CAD keeps things neat.
Bypass Paywalls Clean - Bypasses over 100 media paywalls
Cookie AutoDelete - Deletes cookies when you close a tab, unless you whitelist them before closing it, allowing you to remain logged in
Dark Reader - Dark mode
Easy to RSS - Finds RSS feeds on websites you visit
FB Purity - Cleans up Facebook. Disable almost anything on FB
I don't care about cookies - Gets rid of cookie warnings
Search Engine Spam Blocker - Block domains you don't want to see in search results
To DeepL - Replacement for Google Translate
Youtube-shorts block - Plays shorts like a normal video
according to https://privacytests.org/ Brave privacy is as good or even better than Firefox
As someone in the field (developing Orion browser) I can say that the tests do appear to be biased towards Brave features and do not include testing the most important browser privacy feature of them all, which is telemetry (Brave and most other browsers include a ton of telemetry by default).
That is a shame because the idea of the site and its open source nature is good. We definetely need something like this, just operated by an independant entity to prevent any conflict of interest for something as important as the topic of privacy.
Every Firefox install is tagged with a unique ID.
Firefox runs AMP pages through Google's servers.
Doesn't that bother you?
https://1password.community/discussion/124112/support-for-or...
When I have to, I use Firefox.
Reading text is easy, just page down/up which can be combined with arrow keys to go down/up half a page. Example: page down + arrow up goes down a page and then up half a page because it puts the cursor at the top of the page when I hit page down. It's also possible to scroll down one line with J and up one line with K.
Managing multiple pages is easy too. I can open a tab with T or a link in a new tab with ctrl+t and close the tab with ctrl+q and switch tab with { and }. I can go backward and forward in history by pressing s and selecting a page or just back once with B.
There are just a few things that are a bit annoying. When you open a link in a new tab, the browser is not responsive until the page has loaded or you abort it with ctrl+c. And some pages are just really bad and hard to read or navigate with a browser like this because they rely too much on javascript or css.
Any time you save by loading pages faster is lost a hundred folds by the inefficiency of the whole process.
All that comes to my mind is the "This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years" meme.
I just love the idea behind them and want to support a Google alternative.
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Tree-Style Tabs, uBlock Origin, Multi-Account Containers, Temporary Containers, and Containerise are the 5 "essential" addons I care about. If another browser could replicate the same functionality as those, I'd consider switching, but none of them yet can.
Chrome for the cases where something doesn't work in Firefox.
A while ago I went over the list of Librefox modifications, and decided I didn't really care if Mozilla had that information about me <shrug>.
I tried Brave but didn't like it. Something just didn't click. Looked too much like Chrome, and I don't like Chrome.
It definitely has an excellent vertical tabs implementation (though Brave will soon have a similar one) and other good UI design choices.
Firefox at least for now still gives some semblance of control over the browsing experience addons, configurable options, etc... and can be partially hardened using user.js + firejail + apparmor. It is not perfect but I can't force websites to all be 100% compatible with eLinks/Lynx text browsers and the future PipBoy wrist browser. DNS overrides in local Unbound DNS daemon on my firewall/router.
At times I chain this to a Squid MITM SSL-Bump proxy to get more control over client/server headers but more and more sites give me captchas when I originate from a server/vps provider.
The one missing piece for me is having full control over the NetworkID in about:networking -> Network ID.
Why? Well in the desktop case, FF and Chrome work about equally as well in general, but I have a bias towards using OSS software, plus Firefox seems at least a little bit more interested in privacy. And also just to do my tiny part to help avoid the web becoming a complete Chrome controlled mono-culture.
Brave doesn't give a hoot about privacy, they just pretend to hear your voice, because privacy and cryptocurrencies are what makes them different from their competitors, otherwise they are an ad company like any other. They are totally not paying for their positive media coverage.
Neither browser, or any browser is trully private, they leak like the sieve, but the best approach to privacy is not to stop the leaks, but to leak fake data, which is something only the Tor browser and Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting tries to do.
First party isolation is bullshit, it breaks many sites and it makes your browser stand out. I recommend containers.
I also don't really get the hate for Firefox (except for the most recent trends of googlificating it). I was using it since beta< and tries Chrome on three separate occasions (for month). It wasn't more functional or faster. It just lagged in a different way at different times.
But I'll make the switch to Firefox if adblockers stop working well on Chrome.
I'll never use Brave because of its affiliation with cryptocurrency and their history of injecting their own referral links to people going on Binance.
All the other ones are just honestly subpar.
It feel less fluid and less comfortable for some aspects than WebKit-based WebVM monsters, but it's still enough, it allow vertical tabs (tab center reborn + custom CSS to hide the tab-bar), it feature a decrappyfier (Firefox Reader) to being able to read most once-called websites in text without too much crap, still allow a decent ad blocking/tracking blockers.
I would prefer Chromium on Brave simply because it's better being in well-known devils hands instead of in devils dressed as angels hands. For similar reasons I do not have used (beside few tests) Opera nor old nor new in the past.
Safari because it’s fast and efficient. Firefox for add-ons and development.
Chrome for work and development.
I want to like Firefox but every time I try it I run into some nitpick bug and go back to Chrome. I just tried it 2 minutes ago and the scrolling was hyper fast compared to Chrome, at least 5x the speed, it was not easy to control where I was on a page. Oh well, back to Chrome ...
Safari is fine but it doesn't offer any tangible benefit over Chrome.
It's good enough and it just works. I never really had any issues to make me look for more.
I regularly use other browsers but live in Firefox.
Vivaldi and Chrome. For the dev tools, although vivaldi sometimes injects styles and drives me crazy.
Brave when I want to go onto onion stuff.
for the most part, i used "browser.privatebrowsing.autostart=true" for like the last decade i think but i keep one window open for stuff that i has 2fa and stuff... for regular browsing, i just do CTRL+SHIFT+P and work on this, all day everyday
Opera on Android - because text reflow is super useful (make text fit screen on any zoom)
I do have Firefox installed as well. Typically if some website doesn't work in Safari, it works in Firefox...
At work I'm force to use Chrome
Chrome for work.
