In no particular order, Vivaldi, ironfox , duck duck go, librewolf, Firefox, chromium. All for different reasons and things.
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Adopted Vivaldi across devices. Firefox is also good
Zen Browser.
Firefox
Same, desktop and mobile.
Also DuckDuckGo browser on mobile because it opens a tab in that automatically when I do a search from the home screen search bar on my Pixel phone. But I never log in to any services on that browser. Treating it as a perpetual incognito browser.
My employer pushes custom certs to Edge and Chrome for their internal sites, so I can't use firefox exclusivelyπ₯΄.
Zen browser at home, with firefox as backup when Zen breaks, which it seems to do with some frequency.
Waiting patiently for Ladybirdπ
Firefox
Librewolf on my PCs, IronFox on my GrapheneOS phone
You should use Vanadium though, since browsers have a huge attack surface and Firefox isn't very secure
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When it comes to browsers, the more you try to hide, the more unique you become and stand out. I recommend stock Firefox with an adblocker and Multi-Account Containers since you look more regular
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IronFox is great on a regular Android phone. Vanadium is better for GrapheneOS since it's sandboxed and an attack or hack could compromise your phone. You are trading security vs privacy, so choose carefully
About 6
LibreWolf (Firefox fork)
Same, almost exclusively- at work and home.
Same. Love it. β€οΈ
Same, where it's available.
On my phone it's Waterfox, on my iPad, Firefox. And have FF sync active on all of them.
I love Librewolf and wish it was also on Android.
Try IronFox
I like librefox the best so far. Waterfox didn't work out for me as well.
Floorp
I use helium, based on a recommendation from a user here. I used to use brave, but the peter thiel aspect made me ick.
same helium is just great it saves you laptops bettery live
Two browsers in my android phone - Firefox (routed through Mozilla VPN) for anonymous browsing, and Ironfox (excluded from Mozilla VPN) for logged-in browsing, e.g. banks and social media.
But just one browser in my windows device - Firefox, since windows Firefox supports multi-account containers, and it's compatible with Mozilla VPN, so I can do domain-level inclusion/exclusion.
And of course I have the usual protections in each, I.e. uBlock Origin, LocalCDN and the like.
Stock Firefox.
Fireworks, sometimes chrome.
Librewolf, Vivaldi, and ungoogled chromium on desktop.
Waterfox, Iceraven, and Mull on mobile.
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Desktop: Waterfox, Ungoogled Chromium
Mobile: Ironfox
On the desktop, I moved from vanilla (but hardened) Firefox to Librewolf to Floorp and then to Waterfox. Ungoogled Chromium is for the times some stubborn website refuses to work with Firefox (and its forks). For mobile, I only have Ironfox and if websites don't work there, I just get my ass to the desktop.
Zen Browser. At this point I'm using it almost exclusively for the glance feature, which loads a page in an overlay above the current tab. This is incredibly useful in webmail for short-term page visits, like email verification links, etc.
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Waterfox
LibreWolf on PC. Like Firefox but with stronger protections and I love it. I used Firefox for years, but growing concerns over AI integration and Mozilla made me try it, and I'm not going back.
IronFox on Android. Works great, has good privacy controls like LibreWolf does, and websites work. I used to use Cromite, but switched due to ethical concerns over chromium and the fact that many websites were broken on that browser, even after enabling JavaScript and cookies. I was basically locked out of my college Microslop account because login was broken until I switched. Also, go to hell Microslop.
Edit: Also Tor Browser on both PC and mobile. I hate using it on websites with ads though (like seriously, how can anyone without a blocker handle such a bombardment day to day?), so I often use LibreWolf or IronFox instead.
Firefox Focus and DDG on mobile. Qutebrowser and Librewolf on desktop.
Waterfox.
Sometimes dillo.
Firefox/ sometimes chrome
Qutebrowser. It's a bare chromium engine (QtWebEngine) with some very neat vim bindigs. I even have a key sequence to toggle my proxy!
floorp on desktop. The developers are a team of Japanese students and it works well enough. I've had weird right click behavior after some of their many updates but it syncs with mozilla just fine.
Desktop: Librewolf, Chromium as a fallback
Mobile: Vanadium on devices with GOS; adblocking via DNS. Cromite for my secondary phone and degoogled but not GOS tablet.
People specifying mobile browsers should specify operating system along side them, essentially all iOS browsers use the WebKit engine.
Mobile: Ironfox
Search Engine: SearXNG (Disroot)
PC: Firefox, Librewolf and Tor
Search engine: I go back and forth between DuckDuckGo and Startpage
Firefox+uBO+BetterFox
Mullvad on my desktop. They don't have a mobile app available, unfortunately.
Firefox, falkon, librewolf, tor.
Firefox on desktop as I haven't taken the time to migrate to a fork like Librewolf. Ironfox on mobile.
uBlock Origin on both, Rethink DNS on mobile as a local VPN style ad blocker across all apps.
Vivaldi and firefox
Duck duck go
Ecosia on the phone
Duckduckgo on the computer.
Opera on mobile and desktop
librewolf for desktop and ironfox for mobile!
Vivaldi
- Desktop: qutebrowser/qutebrowser
- Mobile: uazo/cromite
sad to see no seamonkey here..
i use seamonkey, firefox esr and (occasionally) w3m
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