Which web browser is your go-to?

[eyoungren]

Safari is my main browser, and it doesn't look like it will change any time soon. I've kept Arc as my backup, though I seldom need it. From time to time I get curious, and check out other browsers. I used to use Firefox on Windows, back when I still used that machine, but never really used it on macOS. I really wanted to like Vivaldi, but never really took to it. Out of nostalgia, I installed Opera, and I think it could look good, but there's something about it I don't like, and that's not mentioning their current corporate structure.

I've even tried Dia and Comet, to see what the fuss is about, but I don't get AI browsers. What is the point? I never once thought of a way to use the AI in them.

Maybe I should see if iCab is still around.

There was a time when Firefox dumped PowerPC users that Opera 8.5 was my primary browser. Highly customizable, great themes and fast (for that time period). This is largely what I was expecting when I switched to Vivaldi. So my frame of reference where it concerns Opera ignores just about everything after Opera 10.

Up until about 2020 I was still solidly PowerPC, so the browser on my Quad G5 was TenFourFox, which is a PowerPC fork of Firefox. So, until Vivaldi came along there was a series of browsers on my Intel Macs for me, because none were really allowing me to customize like T4Fx had.

And, yes iCab still exists. It gets recommended to a lot of PowerPC users (in the PowerPC subforum here) that are either stuck on Panther or don't want to upgrade to Tiger or Leopard.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

So far in my tests, chrome has been the most optimized in terms of ram usage. Safari is better for battery.

I much prefer chrome

 

[DankeBrutus]

Safari on the Mac for sure. I would probably have switched to Orion or Firefox full time if Keepassium worked with them as well as it does on Safari.

 

[winxmac]

Windows 2000 to Windows 7 - Firefox, Redfox [or r3dfox, a fork of or based on Firefox], Supermium [a fork of or based on Chromium]
[Let's just pretend I did not use Windows 8.x then Windows 10 and Windows 11]
Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 and later - Firefox
OS X 10.10 to macOS 15 - tried Safari for a few instances but still went with Firefox

 

[SevenTheGamingKitty]

Firefox by default, any other browser if I don't have a choice.

 

[SevenTheGamingKitty]

Windows 2000 to Windows 7 - Firefox, Redfox [or r3dfox, a fork of or based on Firefox], Supermium [a fork of or based on Chromium]
[Let's just pretend I did not use Windows 8.x then Windows 10 and Windows 11]
Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 and later - Firefox
OS X 10.10 to macOS 15 - tried Safari for a few instances but still went with Firefox

Was unaware that r3dfox ran on win2000? I've only ever used it on vista.

 

[ayephoner]

safari on mobile
chrome on pc

 

[spillled typos]

Safari as much as possible. Firefox for YouTube (for working ad blocking) and GitHub (it's slow in other browsers), Chrome for Google Meet.

 

[codyl1992]

Safari for the Mac ecosystem and iOS Ublock Origin Lite support, and chrome for my windows machines and occasional Mac use if something works better on it.

 

[HouseLannister]

Chrome has just gotten too good lately with split-screen tabs, vertical tabs, Gemini sidebar, etc. The battery life is great too on Mac. No reason for me to go back to Safari.

 

[Bkxmnr]

On my iPhone, I use Brave for watching YouTube because of the built-in ad blocking, otherwise its Safari. Firefox on my MacMini.

 

[A.W..]

There's no YouTube ads on brave!!!

 

[mansplains]

Arc on macOS, Vivaldi on Win11, Brave on iOS

Sidenote, Safari straight up doesn’t work on my iPhone most of the time. I enter url, loading bar goes an eighth of the way, never finishes. Might load after restarting the app a few times. Meanwhile the page loads fine in Brave.

 

[dmnc]

Helium is great

 

[HBX]

Literally just switched to Brave Origins from OG Brave, and it's been smooth sailing, along with much less memory being used by the browser, which was the end goal. I also like to use Firefox with Phoenix scripts added in for hardening.

 

[Larsvonhier]

On my PPCs: TenFourFox, R.I.P.

 

[boppin]

My browser history

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Apple Safari
Google Chrome

The latter on my smartphone and MacBook.

All the other browsers too, but only to test the website of the former men's choir. There was a nasty bug in Safari for iOS back then.

 

[Black_Mage]

It's Firefox these days. I had Firefox installed as a backup browser for a long time, but I made it my primary browser. I don't remember when I switched, and the post I made on DSL Reports recording that event is deleted.

My problems with Safari are that it doesn't play well with addons and it's only available on iOS and MacOS despite it being available for Windows at one time. I plan on testing Linux again in the future, and I like knowing that I can install Firefox and sync my bookmarks, tabs and history.

I also avoid any Chromium-based browsers.

 

[walnuts]

I miss Camino... before Chrome, a bunch of Mac fans made a Mac-assed Mozilla browser that was tailored to the Mac. It looked and worked great, was super fast, etc. Of course the web wasn't drowning in ads those days too...

 

[rensuchan]

On computers, Floorp (Firefox based) and Brave are the two I use mainly. I use Edge at work because my work network is very locked down and wouldn't even let me install Brave.

On my mobile apple devices I usually just stick with the default Safari unless I open Brave to watch ad-free YouTube.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Out of interest, why would a user choose Chrome over other chromium browsers such as Edge?

 

[thefrost]

My main browser is Chrome on mobile but I use Edge on desktop. I personally haven't tried out anything else.

 

[rm5]

Firefox for me. I used to use Chrome, until I became more and more frustrated with Google's company practices and tried to distance myself from them. I like Firefox, it seems to work mostly the same as Chrome for my purposes.

 

[rm5]

Out of interest, why would a user choose Chrome over other chromium browsers such as Edge?

There was a web application often used back during the COVID pandemic (that I believe no longer exists because the company was bought out) that allowed users to produce multi-instrument concert videos. It was super easy to use, and so it was pretty popular around music education circles. However, it ONLY worked on Google Chrome. If you tried to run it on another browser, the application would not even launch. That's initially why I started using Chrome, but now I'm on Firefox.

 

[Elusi]

Firefox as it's cross-platform, a seamless sync across devices and is not Google.