Im curious what web browsers you all use. Me im using both brave and sometimes firefox and sometimes if available opera. but most browsers have so many options its almost silly and take a long time to get it like i want.
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Firefox and Waterfox.
I dont bother with fancy settings … just use it as is.
I would like to find a small light browser for viewing local html files only…they dont exist.
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I use google chrome, but if that is not available such as on older linux versions then chromium, on some apple mac systems I have installed opera as google again was too new and chromium did not exist. Opera comes in 2 flavour and I always go for the lighter version as i know it works on snow léopard
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I use Firefox, it’s been my browser for many years. Current version is www-client/firefox-bin-151.0.2:rapid::gentoo. I use these addons: Facebook container, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin.
My browser settings for privacy are:
- Custom
- Choose which trackers and scripts to block.
- Cookies Isolate cross-site cookies
- Tracking content only in private windows
- Cryptominers
- Known fingerprinters
- Suspected fingerprinters in all windows
and I block all in the permissions (location, camera, microphone, etc) by default and have autoplay allowed only for www.youtube.com
Also the https-only mode is on for all windows. And DNS is from Cloudfare for Firefox. No adds or annoying accept cookies!
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I use firefox. There’s exactly one plugin I installed: ublock origin. It works miracles.
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I find Vivaldi just as capable as Firefox. Privacy seems just as good. Trying to eliminate Google.
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ok. nice i will try vivaldi and waterfox to see how they are and yes im trying to get rid of google as much as i can to.
I have used firefox since it came out and it stuck with me since.
And i always use Duck Duckgo as my search Engine
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From a french perspective its google or google !
Of the several sites I run, 80 to 90 % of the visitors come from google, ok my target audiences are french. No client ever talks about browser they think the internet is google when I ask what they use, very rare can they seperate chrome as a browser or google as a search engine. But they will quite often reply with a gmail address as if that is the answer.
The government and french papers are suggesting a move away from american products and are now saying use
Not really tried it but I am happy with google.
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Hello Mikael
Interesting this question. I use the following:
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Brave
- Vivaldi
An ettra question to this post would be:
- What extensions do you use too?
Best!
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Hi Manuel im not using any extensions at the moment but it would be interesting to what you all use
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At work: MS Edge Stable and Beta and Dev.
At home: MS Edge Stable and Beta and Dev and Firefox once in a while.
The extensions I use on all browsers are:
uBlock Origin
Disconnect
Reader View
I have an extension I use for switch roles in AWS:
AWS Extend Switch Roles
I have one extension I rarely use but it’s kind of neat:
SwiftRead
It has options, but basically it shows you the text on the current page one word at a time very rapidly. You can read and understand a lot of text in a short amount of time. Pretty neat. Try it out.
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ok sounds good to me,will check them out.
Installed uBlock Origin and Disconnect to see how they are.
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Across Mac and Linux - I use 3 - mostly Brave for nearly everthing - Google Chrome 'cause it’s better at Google Maps than other browsers… And I also use Firefox because I can “sandbox” cookies for one of my customers (e.g. I use it to authenticate to a Citrix environment and download the ICA file to launch a virtual desktop)…
But on MacOS I also use Edge on my work Mac - 'cause it syncs well with my work O365 account… And sometimes I use Safari but hardly ever (however I do use Safari on iPad).
Because I use multiple computers - I need sync, and Brave Sync works (it seems a bit clunky - but it works - and I don’t know how it works 'cause it doesn’t use a sync account), as does Chrome with my Google Account, as does Firefox sync, and I use my Microsoft 365 account for work stuff on Edge on my Work Mac… I was also using Edge on my personal Mac, and the Linux version - but work started blocking everything (e.g. sync) on any device they didn’t issue so no longer had a use for Edge anywhere else so removed it…
Yeah - browser sync is a must for me…
Couple years back I was actually worried about Brave hooking me - and decided to go back to Chrome - yeah - nah - only about half an hour later after being unable to skip ads - I was back with Brave!
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I mostly use FireFox and Brave these days and sometime Opera
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I get the idea of keeping work and home the same.
I took it to the extreme and had 2 identical PC’s, both running Freebsd, one at work and one at home. I used to carry casette tapes back and forth. Modems were slow then.
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The old “sneakernet” solution 
As recently as 1994 - I had a modem at home - and I was studying part time (actually full time in 1994) but the universities modem pool was 300 baud! My modem was an ISA card modem capable of 14400 baud… So I’d download stuff (e.g. off FTP servers) to my shell acount at Uni (I seem to remember it was AIX) then drive into the uni with a handful of floppies to get the data - it was an order of magnitude faster than 300 baud!
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“Nothing beats the bandwidth of a carload of magnetic tapes”
CSIRO used to do that… load punched card jobs onto a mag tape in sydney, fly the tape to canberra for overnight processing, fly the printouts back to sydney
so they were available next day by 11.00 am.
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None, should have one for advert blocking but never real found one that works or I link using. For a long time I had a language switching one but no longer needed as my knowledge got better so now read in either french or english without much thought.
Yes very much used in our household between different machines
We had both in our data centre what a massive leap it was switching between them on dial up connections.
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I use Vivaldi and Brave. The only extensions I need are Proton Pass and Proton VPN, and sometimes Ublock Origin.
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After Firefox devoted itself to AI, I switched to Waterfox.
With an impressive list of extensions. 
- Adblock Plus - free ad blocker
- addy.io - Anonymous Email Forwarding
- AI Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool
- AutoFill Forms
- Bitwarden Password Manager
- Distill Web Monitor
- I still don’t care about cookies
- Insert Template to Editables
- Linkwarden
- Obsidian Web Clipper
- Privacy Badger
- Shorten me
- Tabby - Window and Tab Manager
- Tampermonkey
- Todoist
- Toggl Track: Productivity & Time Tracker
- uBlock Origin
- Vue.js devtools
- Wallabagger
- Web Developer Form Filler
- Xdebug helper
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