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What browser are you using?

What browser are you using?

  • Brave

    Votes: 15 18.3%

  • Chrome

    Votes: 27 32.9%

  • Edge

    Votes: 6 7.3%

  • Firefox

    Votes: 32 39.0%

  • Internet Explorer

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • Opera

    Votes: 6 7.3%

  • Safari

    Votes: 9 11.0%
  • Total voters
    82
  • Poll closed .
moka

moka

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I'd like to get a lay of the land from Gaf users. What browser are you using and why? Mobile/desktop answers are both accepted.

Last year I finally made the switch back to Firefox on both my Windows-based laptop and my iPhone after several years of being a die-hard Google Chrome user. Google is aggressively trying to maintain it's advertising-based business model and to me, it seems, that Firefox is one of the very few browsers out there that is, in the same vain, aggressively pushing to improve my privacy on the Internet. Additionally, by supporting Firefox and Gecko development, I am supporting diversity of thought and leadership in web standards development.

What do you think?
 
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Brave has been the best option for me for a few months now. I can pretty much use any extension I used to use with Chrome, too.
 
Mista said:
I've been using Brave on my laptop and Chrome on my iPhone. Gonna make the switch to Brave on iPhone too
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Jroderton said:
Brave has been the best option for me for a few months now. I can pretty much use any extension I used to use with Chrome, too.
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Why Brave? Is it because of some Chromium extension missing from Firefox?

Jonirenicus said:
Firefox on PC, Chrome on Android
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Why Chrome on Android instead of Firefox?

ROMhack said:
Netscape
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I'm sorry you are not represented in the poll - please abstain.

xrnzaaas said:
This should be a multi-answer poll. A lot of people are using different mobile browsers.
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Good idea. Everyone can now leave two votes each. One for desktop and one for mobile.
 
moka said:
Why Brave? Is it because of some Chromium extension missing from Firefox?
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Edge(Dev) - Work
Firefox - Personal Accounts
Chrome -Everything else

although I'll probably be dropping chrome soon, shit is getting slow and hogging more resources
 
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I'm using my iPad Pro for the first time, so I'm using Safari. Probably won't bother switching either.

Edit: I went back to Chrome. It's much better for me. Lol.
 
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haxan7 said:
Doesn't letting people know what browser you're using decrease your overall security
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I don't think so? I mean every website can already get that information without asking. This just lets everyone here know what you prefer most. This is a completely legit community too so I see nothing wrong with sharing what browser you use with everyone here.
 
I have been trying out Brave today seems pretty good so far, much like firefox only it has adblock plus and ghostery pretty much built into it and it seems just as good at blocking all the ads and trackers.
 
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Vivaldi all day every day, ffs someone listen to me and try this damn browser.

Every chrome extension I use is available for it. The customization is amazing and the gestures will make you wonder why every computer application doesn't have this kind of control. You can map essentially every single action the program is capable of to intuitive and customizable mouse gestures which are activated anywhere at anytime by holding right click and making the gesture. The one I use instinctualy by accident in other applications now is - right click and a slight "swipe" up to minimize the browser window. That is just one of dozens I use daily now and I am lightning fast with web browsing, using any other browser now feels like antiquated technology.
 
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Mista said:
I've been using Brave on my laptop and Chrome on my iPhone. Gonna make the switch to Brave on iPhone too
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Same here. Been using Brave on labtop/desktop for work , as well as my Android and iPhone.

All the chromium features as well as extensions, without the tracking spyware bloat.

For the search engine I was using DuckDuckGo, but have migrated over to the Ecosia extension for the environmental tree planting.
 
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CyberPanda said:
Safari
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Why do you do this to yourself?

Kadayi said:
Vivaldi, though I might dick around with Brave at some point as a few ppl recommend it
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GameChanger said:
First time I have heard of Brave is it better then Firefox?
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Dick around with Firefox! It's good and usually you can find most extensions you'd use for chrome on Firefox too, as well as others! I'm very concerned about a Chromium monopoly given Google pretty much controls the project. Sure Brave blocks most ads and trackers by default but Firefox does this too now with the latest release of 69. Along with uBlock and containers (which are really great by the way), Firefox, in my opinion, is the only option if you care about your privacy.

haxan7 said:
Doesn't letting people know what browser you're using decrease your overall security
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You have no idea. Modern browser fingerprinting techniques can be used to identify people even if they block cookies and tracking scripts. Check out: https://amiunique.org/fp

GameChanger said:
I have been trying out Brave today seems pretty good so far, much like firefox only it has adblock plus and ghostery pretty much built into it and it seems just as good at blocking all the ads and trackers.
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Firefox ships with tracker and crypto-mining protection now too. Add uBlock and Containers and it becomes a privacy beast.
 
Kadayi said:
I'm not as fussed as some about ad blocking tbh. Content creators/sites need to earn ad revenue to stay in business and I'm happy to support them for the most part.
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I want to see content creators and service providers get paid too but I don't want to download a thousand tracking scripts each time I load a web page that are profiling me in a hundred-thousand different ways based on every single website I've ever visited, my Facebook profile, my twitter profile, my Instagram profile and my pornhub profile, to show me ads about single mums in my neighbourhood because I watched some MILF porn three years ago. And not only that, but then distributing all these data points to many other marketing and advertising companies so they all can do the same.

Why not use context of the page I'm on as well as the broader context of the website I'm on to show me relevant ads instead?
 
moka said:
I want to see content creators and service providers get paid too but I don't want to download a thousand tracking scripts each time I load a web page that are profiling me in a hundred-thousand different ways based on every single website I've ever visited, my Facebook profile, my twitter profile, my Instagram profile and my pornhub profile, to show me ads about single mums in my neighbourhood because I watched some MILF porn three years ago. And not only that, but then distributing all these data points to many other marketing and advertising companies so they all can do the same.
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But those MILFs are waiting, and only 3 miles away....... .:messenger_dizzy:
 
PC : Brave (Firefox and Vivaldi also installed but not main browser)
Phone : Firefox Focus
iPad : Firefox Focus (Safari as 2nd choice)
 
I recently did a real-world comparison test between Firefox and Chrome.

Both work fine, but Firefox used more Memory and CPU on my laptop. So I stick with Chrome.
 
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ive been a Chrome user for years. mostly for work, cos I do website QA and Chrome has really nice dev tools. so that's what I mainly use for work (well I have a testing stack of Safari, Chrome, FF, Edge)

however my hacker friend recently told me about Opera so I checked it out and am VERY happy with it. no more pop ups, not more Google all up in my face. feels like a very stable and secure browser. I love it.
 
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