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Which web browser is your go-to?

Which is your favourite web browser?

  • Safari

  • Edge

  • Chrome

  • Opera

  • Brave

  • Firefox

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I use DuckDuckGo browser as my main on both my Mini and Mackbook, plus my Iphone and Ipads. It just blocks the ads, and Duck player keeps all the extra stuff out of the way when watching youtube. That includes on iOS and ipadOS.

I’ve tried using Safari with adblockers like UBlock Lite and WBlock but I’ve had issues with sites loading with these blockers enabled. For some reason DuckDuckGo doesn’t have these issues. I keep Firefox around if I run into something that is just stubborn.
 
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I am sure I posted in here a while ago, but lately I have been using Brave. I used to use Floorp and Firefox for a bit, but I ran into some issues with them not loading certain webpages and Brave is lightning fast for me.
 
Firefox. My favourite, hands down. I did use Safari for a little while on one of my old Macs, but went back to using Firefox ages ago and never looked back.

Anyone remember Netscape? Man, I used to love using that back in the day.
 
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There's no other reason for me to be using any other browser other than Safari since I have a Mac and an iPhone And the handoff and auto-fill capabilities are unparalleled. I still have ChatGPT Atlas and Comet installed on my Mac, but I use those for work/research stuff.
 
Duck.com browser on S25 Ultra and Chrome (plus Google Advanced Protection Program hardware FIDO2 security) on everything else... Chromebook, Linux and Mac's.
 
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Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
I’m honestly shocked that more people haven’t tried or don’t use Edge. It’s really great.
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I tried for a while, when forced to use Windows, because it seemed easier than bothering to install Firefox. But, I couldn't stand it. Blinking, flashing, constantly suggesting "news" items that are actually ads. Embodies everything I dislike about the current web experience. What feature does it have that is "great" relative to any other browser?
 
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Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
I’m honestly shocked that more people haven’t tried or don’t use Edge. It’s really great.
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I use Edge on my iPad for MS 365 stuff for my job, but I won’t use it on MacOS because I can’t run it sandboxed. In fact, it used to require the Microsoft Auto Updater which would run all the time with full privileges. Now it uses something called EdgeUpdater and it’s unclear to me what privileges that needs and whether InTune is required to be able to disable auto-updates. It’s unfortunate because I’d like to keep work and personal on separate browsers. At least putting the Office stuff into Safari PWA’s keeps them separate from all my other Safari browsing.

Edited to add: Edge on the iPad is incredibly irritating as even with all password/info-auto-fill-in turned off, it still pops up the “keyboard bar” or whatever it’s called, on top of browser content. Another Liquid Glass design failure?
 
Favourite? Yeah, not Safari. I still use it because it integrates into everything, but the lack of organizational tools is starting to be annoying, especially on iOS and iPadOS (bookmarks for example). I like Helium as a secondary browser. It's basically Chromium stripped down, and still able to install uBlock Origin.
 
In this thread, and in every BB poll I’ve seen on browsers, Safari comes out on top. I find it hard to believe that Mac users who frequent forums like this one are such an insular community to be outliers on this choice. So I would need to see the sources of polls indicating that 45% or more use Chrome as their primary browser on a Mac.
 
BSDnostalgia said:
I tried for a while, when forced to use Windows, because it seemed easier than bothering to install Firefox. But, I couldn't stand it. Blinking, flashing, constantly suggesting "news" items that are actually ads. Embodies everything I dislike about the current web experience. What feature does it have that is "great" relative to any other browser?
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Interesting, I’ve not experienced this. That said I did disable practically every MS/Copilot/service-related feature to make it a ‘dumb browser’ but it’s all the better for it.
 
guymauve said:
Next poll : which extensions do you use with your browser 😇
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I'll just mention here that a lot of people out there seem to use uBlock Origin. Great addon, but not comprehensive. I use uMatrix. It's by the same dev, but it's a scalpel compared to uBlock Origin's shotgun approach.
 
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I use Safari on all of my Apple devices and Brave on my lone Windows laptop (14-inch Asus Zenbook) and lone Android phone (Google Pixel 10 Pro).
 
horsefeathers said:
Legitimately the main reason I use Brave mobile. 0 ads anyplace. Even video YouTube ads are gone if you use YouTube through the browser.
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Heck yeah. Over the last few weeks I've noticed it's taking longer and longer for YT videos to load. It may be just a cat and mouse game between the two dev's working against each other.
 
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Just found out how heavily Chrome uses QUIC when I blocked it on my gateway. I created masquerades and DNAT rules to force all DNS traffic to my gateway. When I blocked QUIC, Chrome would periodically have 10-15 second pauses loading pages. Had to disable it. No idea why Chrome is using it.
 
eyoungren said:
I'll just mention here that a lot of people out there seem to use uBlock Origin. Great addon, but not comprehensive. I use uMatrix. It's by the same dev, but it's a scalpel compared to uBlock Origin's shotgun approach.
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This is the first I’ve heard of uMatrix. Is this maintained? Google tells me the last update was July ‘21.
 
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