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Firefox, something Firefox based or something entirely other?

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[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago

Firefox, because it is not chrome based.

[–] isgleas@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 month 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.

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 34 points 1 month ago

Mull. Hardened Firefox with uBO.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago

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

[–] nefRrgar@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Firefox. Been using for longtime

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago
[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Harsh words for someone who continues to be their client

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] ElvenMithril@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I use Firefox because it has Unlock Origin.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month 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.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Best android browser

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago

Mull with ublock origin

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 12 points 1 month ago

Firefox because it has extensions

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Firefox cause the search bar is on the bottom

[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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)

[–] Zerfallen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] LaserdiscTurtle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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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[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 month ago

Waterfox. A fork of Firefox.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month 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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[–] danafest@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] breadguyyy@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month 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

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] neo@feddit.org 7 points 1 month 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

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Firefox personally, Arc for work

[–] zer0bitz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 month 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.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month 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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[–] Argyle13@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] Noxious@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago
[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Iceraven (Firefox fork)

Cromite

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mull and the duckduckgo app

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

Brave if I need to chromecast something

[–] robinj1995@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] cherry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Using GrapheneOS, so I use Vanadium

[–] deFrisselle@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

Vivaldi synced with the Desktop

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