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Your Main Web Browser

What is your most used web browser across mobile and desktop?

  • Safari

  • Chrome

  • Firefox

  • Edge

  • Opera

  • Brave

  • Vivaldi

  • DuckDuckGo (browser)

  • Orion

  • Other

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Just my opinion but Vivaldi is the best overall browser available, especially for Mac users, its feature rich, attractive, stable and very good at blocking ads/trackers out of the box.

I've just bought an iPhone Pro Max 17, I already owned an iMac and MacBook Pro which so the Pro Max has planted me firmly in the garden. Vivaldi has been my primary browser until I got the pro max, and the Vivaldi experience on iOS is very poor compared to the desktop version.

So I thought I'd give Safari a go, on iOS, Safari is really fast and has a good interface. Yet the desktop version is full of bugs: copy and pasting bookmarks causes beach balling, there's no universal bookmark sorting function, no vertical tabs and the latest version on Tahoe 26.2 has this flickering effect when the bookmarks side bar is open.

Additionally, since Apple withdrew ADP from the UK we don't get encrypted bookmark syncing which is just pants, they should encrypt bookmarks along with messages etc.
 
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jt_uk said:
Just my opinion but Vivaldi is the best overall browser available, especially for Mac users, its feature rich, attractive, stable and very good at blocking ads/trackers out of the box.

I've just bought an iPhone Pro Max 17, I already owned an iMac and MacBook Pro which so the Pro Max has planted me firmly in the garden. Vivaldi has been my primary browser until I got the pro max, and the Vivaldi experience on iOS is very poor compared to the desktop version.

So I thought I'd give Safari a go, on iOS, Safari is really fast and has a good interface. Yet the desktop version is full of bugs: copy and pasting bookmarks causes beach balling, there's no universal bookmark sorting function, no vertical tabs and the latest version on Tahoe 26.2 has this flickering effect when the bookmarks side bar is open.

Additionally, since Apple withdrew ADP from the UK we don't get encrypted bookmark syncing which is just pants, they should encrypt bookmarks along with messages etc.
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I have recently switched to Firefox. It is everything I need in a browser. I am pretty sure I will stick with it, or some other variant like Waterfox. I don't think I'll be using Chromium based browsers again, as I hopped around quite a few of those in the past.

I tried Vivaldi out recently. I don't like it. The sidebar on the left was impossible for me to remove and I hated seeing it there, so I deleted the browser.
 
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ClaraStahlbaum said:
I have recently switched to Firefox. It is everything I need in a browser. I am pretty sure I will stick with it, or some other variant like Waterfox. I don't think I'll be using Chromium based browsers again, as I hopped around quite a few of those in the past.

I tried Vivaldi out recently. I don't like it. The sidebar on the left was impossible for me to remove and I hated seeing it there, so I deleted the browser.
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Yeah Vivaldi takes a bit of effort to configure+customise to your liking, but the good news is that it lets you customise a lot of stuff. But yeah I still have a place in my heart for Firefox, only dealbreaker for me was that it doesn't have ad blocking in iOS, otherwise I would have prob just stayed on Firefox.
 
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Yeah Vivaldi takes a bit of effort to configure+customise to your liking, but the good news is that it lets you customise a lot of stuff. But yeah I still have a place in my heart for Firefox, only dealbreaker for me was that it doesn't have ad blocking in iOS, otherwise I would have prob just stayed on Firefox.
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As of yet I could not find a way to remove the side toolbar on the left, and the fact that it is Chromium is enough for me to not want to use it. It's a nice attempt at a browser, but it has a way to go. Plus it isn't open source.

I might look into Waterfox and see how that works.
 
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Plus it isn't open source.
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Yeah that was my only concern with Vivaldi. I used Firefox since 2001 and only started using Vivaldi in 2025 after trying vertical tabs but now Firefox has this feature too I could switch back.

I just find it to be awful on iOS and would like to sync my bookmarks across all my devices.
 
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For those using Firefox, do you have an issue where when you go back to MacRumors forum threads after reading a thread, that thread is still bolded to suggest it hasn't been read yet?
 
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For those using Firefox, do you have an issue where when you go back to MacRumors forum threads after reading a thread, that thread is still bolded to suggest it hasn't been read yet?
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Yes, sometimes, but I'm not convinced it's a problem with Firefox. IME if you refresh the page the bolding will be gone.
 
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mdcmdcmdc said:
Safari on my Apple devices. I've tried using Firefox (which I use on my work PCs) but I miss AdBlock, and Safari's integration with other Apple apps, for example, automatically filling in 2FA codes from Messages.

OTOH, Safari is terrible for printing (including saving to PDF), and I frequently have compatibility issues where I can't log into a site or graphic elements don't appear.

I also keep Brave around for compatibility with sites that expect everybody to use Chrome.
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TIL: Firefox on the Mac does automatically enter texted 2FA codes from Apple's Messages app.
 
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I used to be a die hard Vivaldi user for several years, but they took their sweet time to release more versions of the browser on other platforms, and I got sick of waiting for them. By the time they finally did, it was too late, and I fully switched to Brave. I love using Brave and can't imagine navigating the web without it anymore.
 
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cubbie5150 said:
~80% of web browsing is done via Firefox on macOS (on iOS, it's 100%).
~15% on Safari; remaining ~5% is Brave
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My usage is about the opposite of yours, with probably less than 15% on Chrome and 90 to 95% on Safari.

But, I posted to give you a shout out on your Avatar. I've been a Cubs fan for 60 years or so. I remember being devastated by their collapse in 1969. Boy did I celebrate in 2016! Now I have several shirts commemorating that victory! (To go along with my sweatshirt for the 1908 victory)
 
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On Apple Devices I use Safari, on Windows I use Firefox. Sometimes I also use Firefox on Mac whenever a site not load in Safari. I hope Mozilla bring the new Firefox with own Engine. This was actually supposed to happen last year, but we haven't heard much about it since.
 
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Back in old days (2019), I used every browser available for Mac OS X because to test the site I developed for a German male chorus. Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi. Did I forget something?
 
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VitoBotta said:
My favorite is Vivaldi, but the Bitwarden extension doesn't work perfectly with it unfortunately so I have been using Brave lately. However I am trying Opera right now and I kinda like it
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Vivaldi is made by one of the original developers of Opera. That may be why you kinda like it. 😉
 
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Duck Duck won't... Go.
Just recently, I've noticed that CMD-Q won't quit DDG instantaneously, instead, I get a pop-up that says something like "Press CMD and hold the Q"; this gives me a circular timing graph (like you see when updating software), it only takes a second or so but then the program finally quits.
This is the only app that does that for me, and it's certainly not an issue, I'm just wondering why that started happening recently. Anyone else notice this?
 
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