Ask HN: Which browser do you use and why?

15 points by xNeil ↗ HN
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.

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Firefox developer edition for everything.
All of them, because I'm a frontend engineer who has to test stuff. :)
links with some personal customisations, no graphics
Vivaldi for school, Chrome for google stuff, and Firefox for everything else.
Mostly Google Chrome. It’s fast and I trust their security team, which have a very good reputation.
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.
firefox, because userchrome modifications can be pretty. i have no other justification for my choices.
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.

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.

You should consider replacing ABP with uBlock Origin. It's great!
I'll keep that in mind if ABP ever does something stupid, thanks!

Until them, I've learned not to change anything unless there is a very strong reason. It radically cuts down on the amount of confusing surprises.

When I was an IT Administrator, we had Office 2000, and never upgraded, except for the odd plugin to be Office 2007 compatible. Nobody needed training, everything worked as expected. Sure, nobody knew the new flowy ribbon GUI, but nobody cared because they were getting stuff done, and moving on with their life.

I had done my job and successfully absorbed as much uncertainty from their computer use as possible.

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.

Firefox because it runs ublock origin and containers.
Firefox nightly, chromium for the rare sites that need it. I really couldn’t live without containers and afaik only Firefox has them.
Firefox. Privacy & f*ck Google.
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.
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/
Why, Firefox of course!!! It's the only real option if you do value privacy