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Since currently Lemmy is mostly made up of nerds, I'd like to know what browsers you use and why? You could just upvote the comment with your browser of choice if you don't want to explain.

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

I’m on MacOS, and I tend to mostly use 3 for different reasons.

Safari has been my goto for battery, but Firefox has caught up. I may hop over in MacOS 14. My big sticking point has been integration with Apple’s keychain software, and that should change during the next major OS update.

Chrome for stupid g suite products that disable features for other browsers (aka, Google’s video chat)

Edge for free access to GPT 4.

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

Safari for daily driver. Firefox for backup. Mullvad for the old site.

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

Edge and Chrome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mullvad and Brave on desktop. Vanadium and Cromite/Brave on Android.

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

Edge. I hardly use my PC for any actual browsing other than torrent sites.

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

Chromium on mac.

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

Firefox and Vivaldi.

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

I usually stick to the browser that comes bundled with the OS. On my computer, I use Microsoft Edge, and on my phone I use Chrome. I'm just very lazy to download a different browser, I'm not biased at all. If I start using Linux, I'll be using Firefox (idk if different Linux distros bundle different browsers). If I ever switch to iOS or macOS, I'd use Safari.

I think I'm automatically being hated now for using a browser made by a company that sells my data to advertisers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Want to get into Nyxt. Hackable in common lisp! But for me on Guix it crashes within 5 minutes of use. Damn I need to fix it.

eww. (built into emacs). Used to google issues during terminal distro installations. Also good for simple blogs and github readme's, but I plan to replace that with a feed reader and a proper forge explorer package.

But as a depressed gamer, I've been sticking to firefox so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Orion (when it works 99% of the time) on my Mac. It’s pretty much all the benefits of Safari plus the ability to run some Firefox/Chrome extensions. I know it’s not FOSS yet, but they at least claim to be working on it. Firefox for the other websites that don’t work on Orion (very rare), and Chrome for the others that don’t work well at all on Orion/Firefox (almost never). I’m planning on deleting Chrome overall soon.

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

Chrome for development (because our customers use that) and Safari for iOS/Firefox for personal usage

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Keep going back to Chrome, but back on Firefox. The problem is all the webpages Firefox tends to break unfortunately :(

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

are you a Zoho employee lol?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

No I just like it 😇 Also everyone else responded Firefox why not provide other options.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Not in the habit of providing you data, thanks. Our browser choice is none of your business.

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