Since currently Lemmy is mostly made up of nerds, I’d like to know what browsers you use and why? You could just upvote the comment with your browser of choice if you don’t want to explain.

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Also Firefox.

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The one and only

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Firefox

An established foundation with good interests and goals running it (unfortunately it’s not quite that clear cut - but the best, closest). The source of free software development. Extensive feature set. Robustness.

I haven’t seen the need to use a fork, and like and prefer the idea of using and supporting the one that’s investing in the engine development - even if it’s largely only through free use. (Using forks does not support them this way.)

When briefly using chrome dev tools I’ve always preferred and went back to Firefox dev tools for web development.

Sharing my data with an independent org like Mozilla feels much better and safer than with Google. The services are free software and could be replaced if it ever need be. Still, Mozilla is big enough to expect stability across time.

Tech wise there’s not much difference between the three big players Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.

If it weren’t Firefox I’d feel more comfortable with Edge than Chrome.

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If Firefox isn’t available, the next best choice would probably be de-googled Chromium (note that Chromium is not necessarily fully de-googled by default) or Safari. Edge is just Chrome plus Microsoft.

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Edge is just Chrome plus Microsoft.

Notably minus the Google integration though. Replacing one big corp for another.

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I think Edge still has a bunch of the Google telemetry, though. But I could be wrong - I haven’t looked into it because Firefox exists. Firefox also has some Google telemetry kinda stuff by default, just in case you didn’t know - you have to disable it (or bear with it because you want the features)

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I’ve found de googled chromium kinda sucks though, PWAs seem unstable and Chromecast doesn’t work properly

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That’s always the trade-off - convenience, or privacy? It seems that we live in a world where we can’t really get both, and everyone has their personal preference on where that line should be drawn.

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True, I’d rather support Firefox as a browser and an organisation. Edge for pages that work best with Chromium engine

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Firefox. I used to be an avid Chrome user, but the domination of Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc) is scary. It essentially gives Google control over what happens on the internet. So I switched to Firefox and it’s been a great browser ever since

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Unfortunately Google control Firefox too 😐

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In what way?

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They pay Mozilla between 83-86% of their yearly revenue to be the default search engine.

That’s where basically all Mozilla’s funding comes from.

If Google decides they want their competition gone, they just turn off the money pipe. They are at their mercy.

Edit: here’s an interesting article I found with a quick search. I’m sure there are more.

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Firefox for the past 19 years. No need to change at this point.

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firefox

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on mobile am preparing to move to iceraven

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Very good choice for a mobile browser based on Firefox. I’ve been using Iceraven on my phone for some years now and it’s definitely better than default mobile Firefox. I’m sure you’ll like it.

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