Firefox. Considering moving (back) to Waterfox, but unwilling to make the effort right now. I last used Waterfox back when they beat Firefox proper to being a true 64-bit browser.

But here's the interesting one that I've mentioned before: MiniBrowser. It's a bare bones browser that's included with libwebkit* packages on Linux, which are, in turn installed by various other packages that might need some kind of web-like parsing.

I wouldn't recommend it as a daily driver, but it's useful as a troubleshooting tool when I think there might be a problem with Firefox or between Firefox, my config, and some site or another.

I use a bunch for browser isolation. The one I have for general use is librewolf, though.

Zen on the desktop, Firefox on mobile. Zen has quickly surpassed what I thought it would be capable of, and it keeps adding awesome UI bangers that I wish Firefox would have though of decades ago.

I use librewolf and ungoogled chromium all day every day.

Firefox with Firefox Mobile
and Servo on the side, getting ready to replace it.

It makes me sad because initially I was so excited for Ladybird. Finally a new browser engine instead of another shitty chrome fork. Then I find out what and absolute douche canoe the developer was and killed all of my excitement.

I'm waiting for servo to be more like....functional.

Dang, I was not aware of any of this. A quick search pulls up a bunch of stuff. I'll look more into it for sure, but come on, can't we just have nice things?

Firefox for the most part. Ladybird whenever remember to build it, and the site I'm visiting isn't too complex.

I know it's kinda abandoned but I'm using Arc. Love the way it's set up and can sync between work and home.

Appreciate suggestions.foe where to go next?

Also have Mullvad for things I'm worried might get tracked.

Dude thank you! I’ve had a hell of a time with my new Keychron keyboard and Linux.

Zen is my default browser, is what I use on my Desktop and my Steam deck. I also use Firefox on mobile, cause there isnt a Zen mobile.

I use Safari on my iPad with uBlock Origin lite to watch youtube.

If I need to use a chromium browser, I currently have Helium installed, but I will probably grab Vivaldi as a backup browser.

I dont really have any plans to change away from Zen and Firefox, works for everything that I need, and anything that doesnt I kinda just walk away from. I also love the Zen interface and workflow.

Librewolf, Fennec

Firefox and emacs-w3m. I keep trying Nyxt but it hasn’t stuck yet.

What’s the advantage of emacs-w3m

Yeah me too. Didn't know. Frustrated. I was hopeful that ladybird was going to save us.

In fairness, the lemmy lead dev also has some... very strongly held ideological views incompatible with my own... yet here we are.

What results do you get on a fingerprint testing site like the eff one: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

LibreWolf says I have "strong" protection but it also says I'm unique which I don't understand. Like isn't the objective to not be unique ? Or does it mean something is being randomised so I'm unique every time?

Firefox, librewolf and thorium if I absolutely must touch filthy chromium.

I use many, usually Firefox.

I think there is a difference between having strong views and enforcing them on others, but also context is important.Also not all extreme views are equally harmful/harmless.

I've also heard the Lemmy dev has some bad takes (to perhaps put it mildly) but i've found the community to be mostly quite civil

It's so damn slick. For anything not work-related, it's about perfect.

That's a fair point. I've moved away from lemmy instances for this reason, but if piefed didn't exist I'd reluctantly use another lemmy instance, but not lemmy.ml and won't participate there.

Brave, Firefox focus, opera, and chrome(with js, cookies, and preloading turned off)

Firefox. Vivaldi. Firefox for anything important.

Why can't I enable dark theme on websites with IronFox? There's two places in its settings, I played around with both, neither works. Help me ween off Brave.

I use Librewolf almost always I try others just for comparison an fun, here are they:

• Librewolf: I use it for its privacy defaults and because it comes with no bloat and no nonsense.

• 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.

• Ungoogled Chromium: For testing webpages, like styles and stuff for my blog.

• 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.

Firefox almost exclusively with the requisite plugins. Only using other browsers when a site requires it, like Safari on iOS, but that happens maybe 1-2 times a year. I don’t even have Chrome installed anymore.

Didn't it take over the devices' theme settings? So far the browser itself is dark, some websites within are not.

I use Waterfox on my laptop/desktop and Ironfox on my phone (with Chromium as a desktop backup, and Vanadium as a mobile back up)

Yeah it's a similar situation. Sometimes assholes make arguably good software.

Also supposedly the Hyprland community has mellowed out in the last couple years. I can't confirm, but i hope it's true

It's pretty shocking that Firefox has so much use here! In a quick scan through the thread, I haven't seen ANY Chrome users! But it's supposed to be the clear winner of the browser wars, how come so many Lemmy users avoid it? I'm not complaining mind you, I use Firefox itself, but the cultural difference is striking.

I've been thinking a bit at how users self-select in different communities. I often make the same comment on Mastodon and Bluesky, and tech topics do MUCH better on Mastodon, despite the considerably smaller userbase, while general social media stuff does a little better on Bluesky. It's so interesting!

librewolf on my personal machine and firefox on my work machine (I'm only allowed vanilla firefox or chrome on there)

Firefox on Android and PC

Orion on iPad

i honestly tried cromite in the last week, but dark mod is buggy, ublock disables every second day, embedded videos dont show up sometimes, extensions are super slow, ui looks like ass. maybe the reader mode is better just a tad bit...but im back to ironfox.

Librewolf/iron fox(Firefox based),Steam (does that count??),Gnome Web (Basically Safari on Linux)

Mullvad Browser:

Your browser has a non-unique fingerprint

Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 1041.72 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

For comparison if I test in Firefox (configured as I was previously using) I get:

Your browser has a unique fingerprint

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 304,204 tested in the past 45 days.

"Strong" protection means that your browser is configured to protect against tracking, both come back as strong here, but as far as I can tell that doesn't take into account tracking through fingerprinting. You're right, you don't want a unique fingerprint.

When you customise and add extensions to your browser, you add to its fingerprint so even privacy extensions can be counterproductive. The way Mullvad Browser works is that because it comes ready configured for privacy with various privacy extensions (including UBo) installed by default you don't have to make changes. While this doesn't give you a "common" fingerprint exactly (hence "only one in 1041.72 browsers"), it makes you look like all the other Mullvad Browsers so there's safety in numbers. There are a few more nuances to it than that but that's basically the idea, and it's a balancing act, you could be less unique than that but you would need to make other compromises.

The catch is that you shouldn't try to configure Mullvad Browser yourself since that negates the benefit; you have to be able to live with the browser as it is out of the box which may mean sacrificing some of your favourite extensions.

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.

It all boils down to the echo chambers. People who surf web without any adblockers are usually the ones that are not tech savvy as much as the ones who would never surf without uBO. We are on Lemmy after all. This is not a "normie" social media.

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.

Main browser - Brave
Secondary Browser - IronFox

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.

So, uh... I think you're confidently incorrect on pretty much all of that.

When your browser requests a web page it doesn't report what extensions you have installed. It does report plugins but those are not extensions. My report says about 66% of browsers have the same plugins as me.

Ad blockers are a special case. Your browser doesn't tell the server you have Ubo installed but the server can detect an ad blocker if you're not requesting additional advertising related resources.

Most of the other user end configurations aren't really going to effect your fingerprint either.

It turns out that what I said earlier about intentional randomisation is correct. Firefox Resist Fingerprinting (RFP) which is enabled by LibreWolf randomises canvas results, so you're going to be unique for each fingerprinting attempt. That's just as good as being common.

In my own case, my biggest weakness is the fonts I have installed as reported by my browser. I might look into that.

Oh fair enough, I'll re-examine some of that information. I don't think I'm completely wrong. Advice on not installing extensions to avoid adding to the fingerprint comes from the official Mullvad FAQ. The philosophy of making all users look the same to blend in is something inherited from Tor Browser.

Mullvad also uses resist fingerprinting, yes canvas is unique every attempt. The EFF cover your tracks test doesn't penalise you for it, if you're coming up as unique there it's not because of that (some tests out there do though and Mullvad fails them). Having a randomised canvas itself may count as one data point I guess.

Safari, Firefox, waterfox and Vivaldi.

Firefox on laptop, and Firefox and Safari on phone

firefox and seamonkey on desktop

iceraven(ff fenix) or kiwi(ik it's eol) on android phone

isn't cromite almost just vanilla chromium?

PSA that SeaMonkey is basically rebranded netscape suite still being updated

since its a bromite fork, it is suppose to be a privacy oriented browser. ton of stuff has been added and filtered out. its just not good enough for everyday use...at least for me.