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Me, I have a low threat model so I mainly try to stay away from proprietary stuff when possible (Chrome, Edge ect) I use an eclectic mix of browsers.

I use Vivaldi (I know it's not entirely FOSS but I like the customizability of it), for my amnesiac browsers I use Firefox Focus on Android, and LibreWolf on PC, and for when I want as much anonymity as possible I use Tor with Orbot active routing traffic to Switzerland.

I used to use Brave Browser a lot because I like the user interface but I kinda got turned off by all the crypto stuff they've been peddling. And as far as I know, Bromite hasn't been updated in quite some time (please elighten me if I'm wrong about that I've been out of the loop for a while) , and I was weirded out by the developer's statement "I'll get around to it sometime."

Mull is great but very slow to search imo, when I search for something it takes a long time to load. Or it takes a long time to load a website. It could be internet speed but other browsers work just fine,and I've tested Mull on other WiFis.

I sometimes also use DuckDuckGo but the search results are so bad that I just find myself searching google to find what I want. No offensive if anyone uses those I personally just haven't found much use out if them.

So what browsers do you use for privacy and security?

Edit: Sorry for the long post and edited for clarity.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

firefox on everything I use. no need for anything else. always been a fan of mozilla

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This, except Librewolf on desktop and Mull on android to get some extra hardening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to use bromite until yesterday when I discovered that it has been abandoned by the main dev. One of the contributions is keeping the browser patches alive in his own repo but not under the bromite branding.

So currently I'm test driving Mulch which includes vanadium and bromite patches. My backup is trusty Fennec :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a Bromite fork called Cromite if you'd like to go on with that.

https://github.com/uazo/cromite

It has a FDroid repository if you want to keep it updated 😊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! This is great.

For the record I use Mull and Mullvad Browser (no relation).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm on Librewolf and Mull, but when I need a browser with JS and cookies and no Adguard... I go with Cromite now :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you :) I had switched to mulch in the interim but it'll be nice to have a drop in replacement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also used Mulch as an alternative to Bromite before discovering Cromite some days ago :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice :) For some reason I'm not able to install it via obtainium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Vanadium and Mull on Android, Librewolf and Mullvad Browser on Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Librewolf on desktop, Mull (and Fennec) on android. If some important site is broken, I have some chromium based backups without any modifications, which I wipe every now and then.

For Librewolf there are a few interesting privacy addons, most importantly Font Fingerprint Defender. It scrambles the list of installed fonts on the system, so if websites analyze those in order to track you, they will detect you as a new unique user every time you visit their sites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Firefox with some customisations and uBlock Origin.