HACKER Q&A
📣 xNeil

Which browser do you use and why?


Just thought it'd be interesting to listen to others' opinions on browsers. My personal setup is Vivaldi for Articles, Wikipedia, any studies, and Brave for just browsing/doing anything else.


  👤 muffa Accepted Answer ✓
Firefox, easy to use and modern. I started using it because I found it hard(Impossible?) to install uBlock on my phone, tried Firefox out and it was super easy to install uBlock that is was forced me to change.

👤 tomjen3
Firefox because it runs ublock origin and containers.

👤 jamesponddotco
qutebrowser[1], with these settings[2]. It fits my desktop environment perfectly, as I use a tiling window manager and live in the terminal.

I may switch back to Firefox, which is what I use for development, if I ever find the time to customize Firefox to look and feel more like qutebrowser.

[1] https://qutebrowser.org/

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/dotfiles/tree/master/item/...


👤 onion2k
All of them, because I'm a frontend engineer who has to test stuff. :)

👤 Jaxtek
Firefox developer edition for everything.

👤 approxim8ion
Firefox. Never needed anything else, and few browsers allow me to customize or harden them as much as FF does.

I also use Chrome for testing my apps at work though.


👤 pedrodelfino
6 weeks ago I have started using the Nyxt Browser and I am really loving it! I even did a video about why Nyxt is so cool last week. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yBjfjFE0fk

👤 luke2m
Vivaldi for school, Chrome for google stuff, and Firefox for everything else.

👤 errantmind
Ungoogled Chromium and Firefox with privacy tweaks

I prefer Ungoogled Chromium for most tasks but have a lot of legacy stuff in Firefox I go back for from time to time.


👤 jfoucher
Firefox nightly, chromium for the rare sites that need it. I really couldn’t live without containers and afaik only Firefox has them.

👤 mikewarot
Chrome, it just works for the most part. AdBlockPlus to keep the ads and spam to a low roar.

I have no smartphone, nor table to worry about.


👤 cosmodisk
I use Chrome. I used to use Opera, until it started showing some websites in a funny way,then used Mozilla,which used as much RAM, as an entire data centre, so eventually I switched to Chrome. It's not ideal, but at least the interface is better than its competitor'. On my phone I use Brave, tried it and quite liked it,so I stuck with it.

👤 toomanyducks
firefox, because userchrome modifications can be pretty. i have no other justification for my choices.

👤 mkbkn
Firefox. Privacy & f*ck Google.

👤 andreacavagna
i'm the only one that is using Brave? Privacy and getting paid for all the ads you want to see in crypto, to me haas been a game-changer. https://brave.com/

👤 cpach
Mostly Google Chrome. It’s fast and I trust their security team, which have a very good reputation.

👤 maverick74
Why, Firefox of course!!! It's the only real option if you do value privacy

👤 theiasson
qutebrowser most of the time, firefox when qutebrowser fails.

👤 1vuio0pswjnm7
links with some personal customisations, no graphics