It feels like a lot of new web browsers have been coming out lately. Curious to hear why anyone's using any of the non-major browsers. What's are the compelling features that might convince someone to switch?
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WarOnPrivacy•21m ago
In short: Anything but Chrome, Edge and Opera.
In long: Firefox beta, Firefox nightly, Firefox, Floorp, Waterfox, Palemoon, Chromium, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave, Some Chromium Fork I can't remember.
Why: Containers, much more secure than Chrome and Edge, containers, visceral repulsion to Chrome, Edge and Opera, containers.
I have most of these running in front of me now. I'm typing this on Firefox 146.0b9 Remote App running on a Win10IOT VM. Or maybe Win10EDU. One of those.
bji9jhff•14m ago
I use Firefox since it started. At first because I liked it's license. Later because I was in love with the way I'd did things and the add-ons ecosystem it spawned. The first major disagreement came when the search bar merged with the location bar. Then FTP support was disabled. Then RSS bookmarks thingy was removed. Then that stupid hamburger menu appeared. Then features I don't even understand like Pocket appeare. But I continued to use Firefox because the alternatives was worse. Now I keep using Firefox because of apathy and I'm basically the boiled frog of lore.
DaveZale•12m ago
Brave. Doesn't work with sone video feeds and pop ups but so what?
smallerize•10m ago
Firefox, because I can run a real ad blocker on Android and sync to desktop.
WarOnPrivacy•21m ago
In long: Firefox beta, Firefox nightly, Firefox, Floorp, Waterfox, Palemoon, Chromium, Ungoogled Chromium, Brave, Some Chromium Fork I can't remember.
Why: Containers, much more secure than Chrome and Edge, containers, visceral repulsion to Chrome, Edge and Opera, containers.
I have most of these running in front of me now. I'm typing this on Firefox 146.0b9 Remote App running on a Win10IOT VM. Or maybe Win10EDU. One of those.