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.
Ironfox mobile, Librewolf desktop.
Occasionlly Vivaldi if I have to use chromium for something on rare occasion.
LibreWolf is the only right answer.
I use many, usually Firefox.
Firefox. It’s fine. The ai stuff is concerning , but nothing’s caused me enough pain to switch yet
!waterfox@programming.dev is literally identical to Firefox, but the AI removed
Hm maybe I’ll try that. Looks like there’s an android version
Firefox mainly and some forks (Floorp, Librefox, Fennex, Ironfox) also Vivaldi
Primary: Zen Browser.
Reserve: Edge
Zen was the beginning it was little odd but now I love it. Fast, feels great to use and no nonsense.
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.
I love Zen.
I’m in the same situation with Edge at work, it’s surprisingly not THAT bad. I’d probably use it over Chrome if ever the need to make that decision came up.
Librewolf, Fennec
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, librewolf and thorium if I absolutely must touch filthy chromium.
Firefox and emacs-w3m. I keep trying Nyxt but it hasn’t stuck yet.
What’s the advantage of emacs-w3m
If you use Emacs, it’s the fastest way to do something like “pull all this data out of a page, clean it, put it in a table, and change the column order”
Firefox tweaked to the point it’d really make more sense to start with waterfox/librewolf if I didn’t already have the momentum. Vivaldi is slicker, but I think it’s important to support an engine besides chromium
Firefox on Android, iPad and PC.
Waterfox desktop, Fennec mobile
Vivaldi, so far very happy with it!
How is it in terms of privacy?
I just had a quick search, I can be wrong so do not take these as facts but some parts seems to be open source and some UI parts closed, like many web browsers they get sone revenues from a start page but the owners seems very decent and advocates for internet privacy since the 1999.
Also they are based in EU which i trust way more than US servers.
