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Which Browser are you using - 2025 edition

Which Browser are you using

  • Safari

    Votes: 73 53.3%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 14 10.2%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 27 19.7%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 23 16.8%
  • Total voters
    137
I use Safari. I don’t think I’ve seen a case where it didn’t work for me. I have a Windows PC connected to a machine I use. I rarely use a browser on it but I think it has MS Edge.

I have to say I’m not a power user of any sort.
 
For this poll, I only checked the browser that I use by far the most, Safari. Too bad we can't see what browsers are in the "Other" category.
 
Gregg2 said:
Too bad we can't see what browsers are in the "Other" category.
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When I created the poll I purposely kept it vague because the volume of non chrome/apple/firefox browsers is just too large.

I asked chatgpt to count up all of the chromium based browsers (both current and inactive) and the count hit 43. Even with just active browsers we're looking at between one to two dozen browsers.

It was better to have people just say what they use after the big three are accounted for
 
I did cast Safari in the poll, as it's the browser I use at home/for private use.

Now, if the poll allowed multiple choices I could also have picked Firefox or Other, as I have Firefox Developer Edition as the default browser on my work Mac. That's better than Safari for web development, and - most important - is not Chrome... :p
 
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Safari 95% of the time, only if something doesn't work or youtube ad blocking doesn't work, Brave
 
daabido said:
Do you use Bing?
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there are other options. If you want independent:

-Brave Search
-Mojeek
-yandex

If you want middle men, these use Bing or Google in the background:

DuckDuckGo
Startpage
Ecosia
Qwant
kagi (paid)
 
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It would be helpful if Safari could be configured (like Firefox) to cache only to RAM. I would use it more. Until then, Firefox mostly because of "browser.cache.disk.enable = false", NoScript, and uBlock Origin.
 
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Firefox due to the Livemarks plugin that recreated the original Firefox Live Bookmarks feature. Why other browsers haven't copied thie feature I'll never know!
 
BillyJoeJimBob said:
It would be helpful if Safari could be configured (like Firefox) to cache only to RAM. I would use it more. Until then, Firefox mostly because of "browser.cache.disk.enable = false", NoScript, and uBlock Origin.
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what is the use of this? having the website never to reload?
 
I'm currently trying Orion. A lot to like, but also many small issues that are sometimes driving me mad. I'm still waiting/hoping for it to stabalize, otherwise I'll be looking for something else. Before Orion I was using Firefox for a very long time.
 
Is MS Edge secure in terms of browsing and privacy like Safari? I have Microsoft 365 web services. Will edge make a difference using 365 ms office?
 
Safari, as every other browser that starts out minimalist ends up eventually being packed full of junk. All I want is a browser with basic functions.

I use Chrome on my Mac for accessing Google Apps for work. I have Perplexity Comet, but haven’t really started getting to grips with it yet.
 
beshr said:
I'm currently trying Orion. A lot to like, but also many small issues that are sometimes driving me mad. I'm still waiting/hoping for it to stabalize, otherwise I'll be looking for something else. Before Orion I was using Firefox for a very long time.
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Orion still in beta I believe

Marko1965 said:
Is MS Edge secure in terms of browsing and privacy like Safari? I have Microsoft 365 web services. Will edge make a difference using 365 ms office?
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privacy and microsoft doesn't go together. 365 web should work better on Chromium browsers, but you if you value you privacy use Brave which is basically just like Edge and Chrome but without the spyware.

Agathon said:
Safari, as every other browser that starts out minimalist ends up eventually being packed full of junk. All I want is a browser with basic functions.

I use Chrome on my Mac for accessing Google Apps for work. I have Perplexity Comet, but haven’t really started getting to grips with it yet.
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you will love Orion then
 
What do y’all think about Duck Duck Go as your browser? Do they do the best in keeping our searches private?
Would I be better off running Safari with a DDG search engine?
Should I use Safari? is it designed for Mac?
And then there is Firefox too.
What say you?
 
Safari and Bing. Safari runs much for efficiently then any competing browser I've seen and tested.
 
vivaldi duck duck go!
simply because safari pops up ad pages, does not download videos and google is not accurate.
 
I use Safari and Firefox, but I am looking for something better. I was gonna go with Arc but it was bought out and on the way out.

I use Google and ChatGPT for searching.
 
Safari for quite awhile, then I eventually added Vinegar, and Wipr, to try to get rid of the incessant ads (especially on EweTube), then they managed to bypass that too. I’m still using Safari (which, according to a video I just watched yesterday (macmost.com) it still did a really good job of blocking tracking, etc) compared to Google and Chrome.
I did download DuckDuckGo, and part of the package includes their “Duck Viewer”, which allows viewing of EweTube videos w/o the commercials, for MOST (not all) videos; I’m hesitant to even mention this as some money-grubber from YT will go, “Oh, we need to disable that one now, too!”
The DuckDuck always reports the number of tracking attempts that they’ve disabled in the last x days, but statistically it doesn’t make sense.
 
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