Your Main Web Browser

[CMoore515]

Safari 98.9% of the time.

 

[southerndoc]

Firefox (at least the latest builds) seem to be much snappier than Chrome. It's taking some getting used to. I love that I can use uBlock Origin with Firefox though. That may be the reason I stay with it.

 

[svish]

My primary browser is Safari but I also use Chrome and FireFox occasionally.

 

[eyoungren]

I've been using Helium because it's the lightest browser I've ever found. I was using Safari for awhile, but then I tried firefox. Then I decided to try Orion but it was way too slow when I had only a few windows/tabs open. Then I found Helium and it's awesome

Thanks for that. Looks like it will be replacing Edge for me for viewing YT videos while I'm doing other stuff in Vivaldi.

 

[ayephoner]

I think two things:
- First, this website is Apple-centric, and there's more people moving away from google amongst Apple users.
- Secondly, Google has degraded their services and privacy guarantees a fair bit in their push for more ad profitability and questionable AI feature bloat, so more people are starting to get sick of it and looking for alternatives.

I personally switched to DuckDuckGo search about 10yrs ago and super happy, and for browsers also have not been using Chrome for a similar amount of time, been hopping around from Safari, Firefox, Firefox forks, Orion, DuckDuckGo browser, and now my current do-it-all choice Vivaldi, it's been good.

Each to their own but I encourage you to try different browsers and search engines even if just for fun/curiosity, there's plenty of options out there! And worth doing a bit of research on each browser's privacy guarantees and business models! Cheers.

Yeah, I guess I often forget what a subset this forum is of the actual population.

I was an android user for over a decade and I'm pretty well engrained to the google ecosystem for personal use. Beyond that, my work uses google for most things including my work email. Also, I use a number of sites that claim to work better on chrome (and/or one or two other browsers, but chrome is always at the top of the recommended browser list).

I did recently consider other browsers based on another thread on this forum. Ultimately I decided it wasn't worth changing.

 

[trash eighty]

I use Safari on my Macs and iPhone, Vivaldi on my work PC laptop with Firefox kept up to date to double check stuff.

 

[JanetTheGreat]

I use Yandex on Ios and on Desktop. However, Thorium is my second browser on Desktop.