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Ask HN: What browser would you recommend in 2025

9 points by alfiedotwtf ↗ HN
Now that uBlock is all but dead for Chrome, I'm looking for alternatives. I would love to move back to Firefox but the reason I switched to Chrome was because it became a memory hog and started lagging over time, and Safari had too many sites broken for my liking...

So unless I can be convinced otherwise, I'm looking for Blink-based browser recommendation. What are you using these days and why?

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ttoinou
I just switched from Brave to ungoogled chromium on mac and realized Manifest V3 might be coming really fast so I need to make new plans asap. I really need proper tabs handling (I have 100 tabs) so most probably need a vertical tab manager.

Firefox is slow on mac but maybe that’s my only solution if I need proper sessions / containers to connect multiple accounts to the same website or isolate websites such as facebook.

Orion browser might be my only solution if I get rid of the container requirement and I look for something using less CPU and battery https://kagi.com/orion/

alfiedotwtf
Orion looks interesting... but is it open source?
theandrewbailey
I've been using Brave for a while. The Shields feature is practically uBlock Origin, and Brave has said they intend to continue Manifest V2 support into the future for as long as they can with their custom patches[0].

As for why I use Brave, it's mostly because they aren't Google. ("you're using Chromium so it's just Chrome and muh browser engine marketshare"... yes, I know, but I don't mind.)

[0] https://brave.com/blog/brave-shields-manifest-v3/

alfiedotwtf
Damn. That doesn't sound too hopeful because eventually that Embrace, Extend, Extinguish will catch up :(
fsflover
Given the below news, Firefox is the only reasonable choice. See also the comments in there.

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge (neowin.net)

768 points by thombles 4 days agoe | 520 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201974

About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024) (github.com/gorhill)

270 points by 0x000042 1 day ago | 160 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43239774

bergie
You may want to read on the new Firefox TOS to find out why Firefox is absolutely not an option since last week.
alfiedotwtf
FFS why can’t we have nice things in 2025
fsflover
It's still the only option, compared with the mega-corporations. Also, it's FLOSS and you can modify it.