Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser?

Posted by throwaway_yc on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Currently I am using Firefox (for HN, Stackoverflow, freenode and Gmail, and programming stuff), Chromium for Banking, shopping sites, and for everything else.

I want to get rid of ads, malicious scripts.

What's your default browser?

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by duiker101 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:00AM (#20565404)

Vivaldi! I just can't get enough of it! It's very customizable, runs great, Chromium engine. I don't think I have ever been this happy with a browser.

As for ads/malicius scripts I rely on ublock orgin.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by sharmi on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:23AM (#20583119)

Firefox on laptop and on mobile.

Infact Firefox on mobile is infinitely better as it allows addons. I always setup ublock origin and performance on mobile is even better than desktop.

It is great on laptops too. Just a little bit inconvenienced by 'works only on chrome' websites. That just fuels me more to stick with firefox.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by 666lumberjack on Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:54AM (#20582205)

Currently Opera, because of inertia and laziness. Originally I started using it for the free VPN and internet hipsteryness of using a less popular browser (much as I'd like to pretend otherwise, the latter is something my brain finds very appealing). I have a proper VPN setup now, but I've procrastinated switching to Firefox because of the general inconvenience associated with any browser switch and the need to for a minor rewrite on a browser extension I wrote/use.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by neighbour on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:09AM (#20581013)

Firefox with custom user.js from [1]. In addition to this, Multi-Account Containers, HTTPS everywhere, NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger.

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by zemnl on Friday August 02, 2019 @09:29AM (#20592744)

Firefox on desktop; same on on mobile along with Firefox Focus (although recently I started using Firefox Preview a bit more instead of regular FF)

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by AwesomeFaic on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:35PM (#20585509)

Brave on my home PC and Galaxy S8, Chrome at work (unable to download/install other browsers)

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by jiscariot on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:21AM (#20573780)

Firefox with uBlock, disable javascript toggle, multi-account containers, user-agent switcher

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by pietroglyph on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:12PM (#20568141)

Firefox with tracking protection enabled, uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, and the Smart Referer plugin

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by scanny on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:38PM (#20590519)

Chrome, with uBLock Origin and privacy badger.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by e83f70479b on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @01:57AM (#20572006)

Chrome

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by jryan49 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:21PM (#20570911)

Firefox

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by nxpnsv on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:29PM (#20566443)

I’m happy with firefox.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by croo on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:01AM (#20592962)

Firefox

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by Benjiwillis on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:28AM (#20582344)

Chrome

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by kraitis on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:10AM (#20574999)

Brave.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser? by 2sk21 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @06:15AM (#20573013)

Safari

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