Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why?

Posted by xNeil on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Just thought it'd be interesting to listen to others' opinions on browsers. My personal setup is Vivaldi for Articles, Wikipedia, any studies, and Brave for just browsing/doing anything else.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by muffa on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:56PM (#27585631)

Firefox, easy to use and modern. I started using it because I found it hard(Impossible?) to install uBlock on my phone, tried Firefox out and it was super easy to install uBlock that is was forced me to change.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by tomjen3 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:19AM (#27591937)

Firefox because it runs ublock origin and containers.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by jamesponddotco on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:10AM (#27576736)

qutebrowser[1], with these settings[2]. It fits my desktop environment perfectly, as I use a tiling window manager and live in the terminal.

I may switch back to Firefox, which is what I use for development, if I ever find the time to customize Firefox to look and feel more like qutebrowser.

[1] https://qutebrowser.org/

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/dotfiles/tree/master/item/...

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by onion2k on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:59AM (#27576944)

All of them, because I'm a frontend engineer who has to test stuff. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by Jaxtek on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:54AM (#27576671)

Firefox developer edition for everything.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by approxim8ion on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:24AM (#27587981)

Firefox. Never needed anything else, and few browsers allow me to customize or harden them as much as FF does.

I also use Chrome for testing my apps at work though.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by pedrodelfino on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:27AM (#27603642)

6 weeks ago I have started using the Nyxt Browser and I am really loving it! I even did a video about why Nyxt is so cool last week. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yBjfjFE0fk

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by luke2m on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:28AM (#27578919)

Vivaldi for school, Chrome for google stuff, and Firefox for everything else.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by errantmind on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:00AM (#27589121)

Ungoogled Chromium and Firefox with privacy tweaks

I prefer Ungoogled Chromium for most tasks but have a lot of legacy stuff in Firefox I go back for from time to time.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by jfoucher on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:38AM (#27593048)

Firefox nightly, chromium for the rare sites that need it. I really couldn’t live without containers and afaik only Firefox has them.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by mikewarot on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:45AM (#27588392)

Chrome, it just works for the most part. AdBlockPlus to keep the ads and spam to a low roar.

I have no smartphone, nor table to worry about.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by hidden-spyder on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:13AM (#27592692)

You should consider replacing ABP with uBlock Origin. It's great!

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by mikewarot on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#27595576)

I'll keep that in mind if ABP ever does something stupid, thanks!

Until them, I've learned not to change anything unless there is a very strong reason. It radically cuts down on the amount of confusing surprises.

When I was an IT Administrator, we had Office 2000, and never upgraded, except for the odd plugin to be Office 2007 compatible. Nobody needed training, everything worked as expected. Sure, nobody knew the new flowy ribbon GUI, but nobody cared because they were getting stuff done, and moving on with their life.

I had done my job and successfully absorbed as much uncertainty from their computer use as possible.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by cosmodisk on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:30PM (#27596075)

I use Chrome. I used to use Opera, until it started showing some websites in a funny way,then used Mozilla,which used as much RAM, as an entire data centre, so eventually I switched to Chrome. It's not ideal, but at least the interface is better than its competitor'. On my phone I use Brave, tried it and quite liked it,so I stuck with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by toomanyducks on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:37PM (#27586526)

firefox, because userchrome modifications can be pretty. i have no other justification for my choices.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by mkbkn on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:08PM (#27594262)

Firefox. Privacy & f*ck Google.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by andreacavagna on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:12PM (#27596580)

i'm the only one that is using Brave? Privacy and getting paid for all the ads you want to see in crypto, to me haas been a game-changer. https://brave.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by reducesuffering on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:17PM (#27599568)

How much $ in BAT are you making a month?

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by cpach on Monday June 21, 2021 @11:02AM (#27579852)

Mostly Google Chrome. It’s fast and I trust their security team, which have a very good reputation.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by maverick74 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:43AM (#27603307)

Why, Firefox of course!!! It's the only real option if you do value privacy

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by theiasson on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:00AM (#27576697)

qutebrowser most of the time, firefox when qutebrowser fails.

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by 97-109-107 on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:59AM (#27589771)

ditto

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Re:Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why? by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:09AM (#27577505)

links with some personal customisations, no graphics

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