Which Browser The Best!

[phenomlab]

@cagatay I think it’s also important to note why the browser you choose is the best. For example, available extensions, ease of use, privacy etc. You should add Brave to this list I think although they do have a somewhat bizarre referral (BAT) which doesn’t lend itself very well to privacy.

https://brave.com/brave-rewards/

My personal preference leans towards Firefox for the ultimate in privacy, but I do tend to prefer the flexibility of the Webkit engine used by Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi etc.

[cagatay]

@phenomlab i cant edit the poll

[phenomlab]

@cagatay Yes, I know - that’s a long standing bug with the extension

[crazycells]

firefox vs. safari vs. chromium based browsers

we should protect Mozilla among those two giants for many reasons

[My Account]

I think this list is incomplete the famous privacy-focused fork of firefox that is librewolf should be on the list, and likely chromium also has one that is brave as mentioned in the above post.

Also, I think there are various categories on which browser can be called best like some normal users who use it for day-to-day use might end up calling chrome the best. For Linux users firefox is the default choice as it ships with most Linux distros, better privacy, most of them don’t want to support chromium monopoly and firefox adapts the gtk theme a bit better than chromium browsers. and likewise for other categories.

also remember that Nothing is Perfect

[phenomlab]

@My-Account salient points here and very hard to disagree with. I’ve been a brave user for some time as I like their attitude towards privacy - I do however disable the BAT awards as I personally have no real use for them. I’ve also used LibreFox and admittedly, really liked it but slowly gravitated back to brave - mostly because it’s hardened out of the box and you don’t need that many extensions to further enhance an already great experience…

There’s also WaterFox - another fork of Firefox which supposedly has enhanced features - however, I didn’t rate them much. The overall goal for me is to keep browser consistency across all platforms, being Android, Linux, and Windows.

[My Account]

@phenomlab Waterfox had a lot of issues when I tried it a long time ago. IDK about the current situation.
I use Librewolf as my primary browser with some minor un-hardening because some privacy things were making my life hard.
I also use brave to test my website’s compatibility with chromium browsers, and yea I’ve also disabled that crypto trash completely from settings and disabled the flags with matching names.

[JAC]

Currently using Brave, we’ll have done for probably at least a year.

[phenomlab]

@JAC Yes, I recently switched back to Brave - good browser, but seems to have issues with caching (stale files) meaning it’s not that great for development of code.

[DownPW]

Vivaldi is very good and I love the new functionnality with Workspaces.

https://vivaldi.com/features/workspaces/

[phenomlab]

Yes, I’ve tried Vivaldi on many occasions, and actually quite liked it.

[phenomlab]

And so, after much deliberation, I’ve gone back to Firefox on my Android device at least. No other browser seems to have built in support for mobile add-ons, and to my mind, seeing as virtually all Internet traffic these days is from Mobile devices, this is a glaring oversight from the likes of Edge etc that means they will miss out on a huge market share.

[phenomlab]

Now trying out Firefox latest build on my PC - so far, so good, and because I’m so used to Chrome, I’ve made it look similar at the very least

[phenomlab]

I’ve hit a snag. The development (F12) tools on Firefox really aren’t that great and it doesn’t behave in the same way as every other WebKit based browser does.

The ability to highlight specific elements is missing, and you cannot click vars which would typically be a link to the value. Nothing happens when you do click then, and that’s going to completely change the way I develop.

Not good. Going to check to see if there’s anything I can do about that. If not, goodbye Firefox…

[phenomlab]

After much deliberation, I’ve stopped using Firefox. Just too many things I dislike - in fact, way more than I’d care to list. I’ve gone back to using Edge - both on my desktop, and mobile. I think the thing that really put me off was the stock developer tools in Firefox. They are simply awful in my view and not a great experience at all.

In fairness, there is this

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/developer/

However, having checked, the F12 developer console is exactly the same??

[DownPW]

Personnaly, I don’t use firefox since 2 or 3 years for Vivaldi for so many reasons but I still recommend Firefox to those who have basic use of the web.

I love the console of Vivaldi on Desktop

[phenomlab]

@DownPW said in Which Browser The Best!:

I love the console of Vivaldi on Desktop

Vivaldi uses the same WebKit engine as Edge

[DownPW]

Yep you are right !

but I love functionnalty of Vivaldi

[phenomlab]

@DownPW said in Which Browser The Best!:

I love functionnalty of Vivaldi

Tried this browser again this evening. It’s an acquired taste in my view. Not something I’d specifically choose. Reminds me somehow of how Opera used to be.

[JAC]

@phenomlab said in Which Browser The Best!:

Opera

I used to love Opera!