this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
26 points (100.0% liked)

Firefox

2 readers
20 users here now

The latest news and developments on Firefox and Mozilla, a global non-profit that strives to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.

You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance:

Related

Rules

While we are not an official Mozilla community, we have adopted the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines as far as it can be applied to a bin.

Rules

  1. Always be civil and respectful
    Don't be toxic, hostile, or a troll, especially towards Mozilla employees. This includes gratuitous use of profanity.

  2. Don't be a bigot
    No form of bigotry will be tolerated.

  3. Don't post security compromising suggestions
    If you do, include an obvious and clear warning.

  4. Don't post conspiracy theories
    Especially ones about nefarious intentions or funding. If you're concerned: Ask. Please don’t fuel conspiracy thinking here. Don’t try to spread FUD, especially against reliable privacy-enhancing software. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Show credible sources.

  5. Don't accuse others of shilling
    Send honest concerns to the moderators and/or admins, and we will investigate.

  6. Do not remove your help posts after they receive replies
    Half the point of asking questions in a public sub is so that everyone can benefit from the answers—which is impossible if you go deleting everything behind yourself once you've gotten yours.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

What is your favorite browser? Feel free to share why.

#Vivaldi #browser #Firefox #Edge #Chrome #Safari #Opera #Windows #Linux #macos #iOS #Android

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] josh@vickerson.me 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox, despite Mozilla’s current trajectory because the Chromium monopoly will ultimately harm the web.

Hope to use @servo@floss.social someday 🤞

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] lxskllr@mastodon.world 6 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

Firefox because it isn't chromium, and I just like it. With chromium, google controls the web. Doesn't matter what kind of wrapper a third party puts on it. It's still chromium and it's still google.

[–] veer66@mstdn.in.th 4 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I like Zen browser because it comes with vertical tabs, screenshot feature, and familiar dev tools.

Moreover, unlike Safari, it works well on macOS and Slack notification. When I checked my Slack tab on Safari, I usually found that it didn't load the page yet although I didn't shutdown or restart the computer.

[–] cerement@social.targaryen.house 4 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

asking us to vote between:

  • Chrome
  • Chrome
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • other (but mostly Chrome)
[–] MostlyTato@mstdn.social 4 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net

I currently use:

Firefox on the desktop
Librewolf on the Linux laptop
Waterfox on my main phone

Vivaldi on my other persona on desktop, laptop and second phone.

Also going to try Floop and Zen.

Ostensibly I want to use Firefox forks but I find Vivaldi pretty cool despite being Chromium, especially on mobile.

TBH, none of them are ideal. I'd love to have one browser with multiple profiles across multiple devices, but I find that doesn't work for me.

[–] omartwotone@ioc.exchange 3 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net
Other -> LibreWolf

[–] MossyQuartz@social.vivaldi.net 3 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I choose Vivaldi as my favorite because I like many things about it. I use my home computer now for recipes, cash spreadsheets, and a shopping list. I had not previously used social media and this is a nice surprise for me to enjoy it. I used Netscape before Metacrawler and then I used shelves of books until trying Firefox. I used Chrome then Edge before I retired, but used Firefox and DuckDuckGo on home computers until I noticed Vivaldi about two years ago and put it on my home computer and laptop and cellphone. I like its many options and features and forums full of answers to questions I might ever need ask! It gives me a calendar and note and task pads and all sorts of things which optionally can sync and be seen when I use the browser on my cellphone or to choose not to sync. The very best is, when I removed Windows Operating System from my old laptop and replaced it with one of the Linux distributions now this Vivaldi continues to give me my familiar user experience. Thank you, to all and everyone who is and who are responsible for allowing me this user experience which followed me between operating systems, thank you.

[–] grishka@friends.grishka.me 2 points 1 month ago

I use Vivaldi but I would really like to see more attention to quality. Breaking things randomly in minor releases and then taking half a year to fix them is not okay, guys. A public issue tracker would also help, instead of the scream-into-the-void bug report form. I understand that you've taken everything from the old Opera team, but this part should've been left behind.

[–] jeroen@mastodon.habets.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

@jon@vivaldi.net only now noticed your handle and who you are...and "Feel free to share why."

For me having an alternative rendering engine is a key reason to stay loyal to Firefox.

So no vivaldi for me though I trust you if you'd say it's wonderful in many other aspects (like features and privacy).

[–] omxxi@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

#Firefox because of Multi-Account Containers

[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net

#Firefox got a ton of variants/forks recently.

  • #Librewolf
  • #MullvadBrowser
  • #ZenBrowser
  • #Midori

So yeah I take Firefox + Arkenfox user.js or Librewolf if they fixed their CI/CD

[–] Busyvar@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

TIL Midori migrated to Gecko in 2019

[–] scott@typetura.social 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Arc, with spaces, profiles, boosts, and really considered design decisions, it works really well for what I do.

[–] Jeff@bluenoser.me 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I’ve been using Vivaldi lately, but I also like Firefox and Librewolf. However the internet today feels like that of 2000, so many websites only work with todays IE (Chrome), so yeah, the options are either Chromium or Gecko; and the latter doesn’t work for all websites.

It’s a very sad state of affairs.

@Karen5Lund@mastodon.social

@jon@vivaldi.net Librewolf. Based on Firefox but more lightweight. I'll never use a Chromium-based browser in my life anymore.

[–] MTtravelerr@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net
Just wish Google was not used in vivaldi , so when I don't want their influence I use ddg . if there is a way to keep Google completely out of Vivaldi. I'd like to know how.
Thanks MTT

[–] eilegz@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox, because its the only real alternative to chrome and its clones, firefox its still the most customizable browser, vivaldi its the second, but the biggest con of vivaldi feels that its the slower among chrome clones

[–] mini@perfect.moe 2 points 4 weeks ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox, largely because I like supporting an alternative (non-Blink) rendering engine - I think a rendering engine monoculture is very dangerous for the internet as a whole.

[–] VileLasagna@mastodon.gamedev.place 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net can't live without Vivaldi's workspaces

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] mcv@friendica.opensocial.space 2 points 1 month ago

Firefox right now, and pretty happy with it, but Vivaldi is increasingly starting to sound like a contender.

[–] sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I would love to support Vivaldi more than I do but I worry about the Chromium base and also Firefox has its own plugin ecosystem.

[–] JoergA@social.tchncs.de 2 points 4 weeks ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I would love to use Vivaldi, but unfortunately the Ad-Blocker on Android isn't very good - Firefox using ublock-extension or Brave is doing a much better job there.

[–] uberprutser@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net After dropping Opera, I now mostly use Waterfox. Vivaldi is also on my desktop and laptop. But so is Brave, Firefox and DuckDuckGO. Edge is also on there, but only because MS won't allow me to remove it :(

[–] jballesteros@masto.es 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Brave

[–] dazo@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I use a plethora of browsers.

I'm migrating fron Firefox to LibreWolf (sorry, I prefer non-chrome based browsers), but have a Ungoogled Chromium as a backup those times Firefox/LibreWolf doesn't cut it (I thought the world had learnt a lesson from the IE days; seems we need to educate a new generation web hipsters).

On Android I use the default browser (in @e_mydata@mastodon.social) for a few news/blog sites, Mull and Vivaldi for some other sites and DuckDuckGo when searching. Default browser is Mull with Privacy Mode enabled by default.

I honestly don't like that the Chrome based browsers seems to be dominating these days. We need a heterogeneous web render environment to ensure a single dominant player dictates how things will be for users.

And without such competition, I fear there will be a lesser drive to further improve browsers. Just like when Netscape seemed too complacent with their own browsers back in the days.

[–] labria@social.yeschenko.com 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I’m currently trying Zen, which is FF inside and Arc outside, basically.
Re: why, I think Chrome is the new IE6, and we need more engines to keep the web open

[–] qualcu@mastodont.cat 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox+Fennec+Libre Wolf

[–] neo@soc.psynet.me 2 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Safari, because all my passwords live in iCloud, and I really like how the touch gestures for back and forward work.

[–] wgo@toot.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

@jon@vivaldi.net librewolf

[–] kevin_vermassen@mastodon.social 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Vivaldi & Firefox for philosophical reasons ;-)

[–] djbiker@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@jon I'm a Vivaldi supporter since V1. Because of open privacy (MV3) and open finger printing support I use more & more FF and Zen in the last months ... ;-( But I love Vivaldi, great team support and the Vivaldi style

[–] jdkiser@social.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net @zenbrowser@fosstodon.org

#zenbrowser because it's Firefox with left side tabs, better interface and better privacy.

#Vivaldi
#browser
#Firefox
#Edge
#Chrome
#Safari
#Opera
#Windows
#Linux
#macos
#iOS
#Android

[–] p4@masto.ai 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net Opera from before the switch to chromium remains my favorite to this day, every browser I've used since doesn't feel as feature complete or as fun as Opera did.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] slims@famichiki.jp 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net @kazuhito@vivaldi.net Waterfox and Qutebrowser!

[–] Siathes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Has anyone tried floorp? I’ve been using it and it seems good with side tabs. Any others with opinion (good or bad) about it?

[–] thesdev@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Firefox on Android supports extensions, wish Vivaldi did the same!

[–] andrewc@masto.ai 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I started to really like ARC until recently when I heard they are focusing on a new project. Then I would say Firefox and Safari

[–] unnon89@nrw.social 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Other

AVG Secure Browser ^^

[–] melroy@mastodon.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I use #Floorp now (Fork of Firefox).

[–] geillescas@techhub.social 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@jon@vivaldi.net
I use #Zen because its #Firefox without the drama. Plus workspaces!

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] simonebissi@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net brave

[–] davidgreen80@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net After testing all the browsers my favourite is Vivaldi due to their focus on privacy and no crypto crap. I also like to browse their forums which has been helpful to me at times.

[–] thegib@mastodon.uno 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net
Brave

[–] vdpnv@social.noleron.com 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net safari and Firefox. Alternative to chromium-based browsers.

[–] Skaifer@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Vivaldi and Zen browsers. Cuz I like customizability. Zen feels faster though. Vivaldi and Fennec on Android.

[–] leon@sfba.social 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net Brave... because it loads fast, and has the best built in ad blocking. Please change your ad-blocker accordingly.

[–] ocean@raru.re 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net I love Safari because it's not chrome & it's got sleek apple design & it means I don't have to use the loathsome firefox

[–] tth@mastodon.tetaneutral.net 1 points 1 month ago

@jon@vivaldi.net : And my second favorite is Lynx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

[–] Jerry@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago

Firefox because only it supports (via an extension) having different sessions in different tabs, so I can log into 3 different accounts at the same website at the same time and use the same browser window for all of them. I need this and won't move to a different browser.

load more comments
view more: next ›