Battle What is your Favourite Browser?

[Parkinsond]

The echosystem browser: Edge for Windows and Chrome for Android.

 

[Victor M]

Slightly off topic: has anyone used Arc? what are your thoughts on it? Their stupid installer doesn't work for me.

 

[lokamoka820]

Slightly off topic: has anyone used Arc? what are your thoughts on it? Their stupid installer doesn't work for me.

Arc Browser has been discontinued.

Arc Browser has been discontinued, but the company's building a new browser: Dia - gHacks Tech News

In 2022, Arc Browser was termed as the "Chrome replacement" that people wanted. Three years later, The Browser Company has discontinued the app, all because it wants to build a new browser, […]

www.ghacks.net

 

[TuxTalk]

Safari

 

[Marko :)]

Arc Browser has been discontinued.

Arc Browser has been discontinued, but the company's building a new browser: Dia - gHacks Tech News

In 2022, Arc Browser was termed as the "Chrome replacement" that people wanted. Three years later, The Browser Company has discontinued the app, all because it wants to build a new browser, […]

www.ghacks.net

I always saw this coming, but not that fast.

 

[ErzCrz]

Edge or Firefox. The experience with Edge is very seamless in Win11 though Firefox is also good. I often default with Edge an then move to FF for streaming when I want to block ads that require cosmetic filtering.

 

[simmerskool]

I have been trying out Ungoogled Chromium in linux for the past 2 days. Perhaps more private than Brave and I am liking it, although its initial setup is somewhat more complicated & using fewer extensions -- but firefox continues to be my primary in linux. In win10 50/50 Edge or firefox

 

[Zero Knowledge]

I would love to say Fire Fox, I still dig it and want them to succeed but honestly I use Edge more than FF. Sadly I am a slave of MS but it seems to just work.

 

[monkeylove]

Firefox because of MV2 support, and I can still customize the UI, e.g., the menu still shows up.

 

[simmerskool]

Firefox because of MV2 support, and I can still customize the UI, e.g., the menu still shows up.

fwiw I have MV2 ubo extension in current version Ungoogled Chromium. minor learning curve for the install.

 

[Sorrento]

Still using The Wolf 90% of the time & if necessary Edge

 

[Zero Knowledge]

MV2 is dead, Google wants to stop adblockers, they could care less about security. And what Google wants it gets because everyone is dependent or feeding off and on their add revenue.

 

[jamey910111]

Still using The Wolf 90% of the time & if necessary Edge

Librewolfe?

 

[Parkinsond]

Vivaldi (just add adguard filter list to get adblocking similar to Brave) and enjoy extenion-less browsing experience without insinuated crypto and vpn services or excessive disk writes.

 

[piquiteco]

Vivaldi (just add adguard filter list to get adblocking similar to Brave) and enjoy extenion-less browsing experience without insinuated crypto and vpn services or excessive disk writes.

Good point, and Vivaldi is very lightweight and allows you to watch videos on YouTube while blocking ads. It works very well for watching videos.

 

[Parkinsond]

Good point, and Vivaldi is very lightweight and allows you to watch videos on YouTube while blocking ads. It works very well for watching videos.

One more advantage; it lets you to install it in one folder outside SSD; do not have to create a linke for cache folder outside SSD as in the case of Edge or Chrome.

 

[anirbandutta01]

Firefox (primary) & Vivaldi.

 

[piquiteco]

One more advantage; it lets you to install it in one folder outside SSD; do not have to create a linke for cache folder outside SSD as in the case of Edge or Chrome.

It seems to me that it also installs in the user's space, doesn't it? Without requiring administrative privileges to install for all users, does this confirm that it still works? Like Tor?

 

[Parkinsond]

It seems to me that it also installs in the user's space, doesn't it? Without requiring administrative privileges to install for all users, does this confirm that it still works? Like Tor?

During install, you get three options: install for current user, install for all users, and install as standalone.
I choose the last one after creating a folder on HDD, where it get installed including even cache folder, sparing SSD extra writes by cache and saving space (cache can reach approximately 1 GB daily).

 

[piquiteco]

Firefox (primary) & Vivaldi.

We have to hope that Chrome isn't sold, otherwise it could spell the end for Firefox, which cannot happen, and it could also harm Vivaldi and other Chromium-based browsers. Google may have its flaws, but it also has its merits. If Chrome were sold to God knows who, it could turn out badly, so it's better to leave it as it is. An example of this is Project Zero.