I use Firefox on all platforms.
Firefox. I’m not happy with how Mozilla Corp is operating, but I’m not switching to a Firefox fork unless there’s actual developer exodus (akin to what happened to OpenOffice/LibreOffice). Ultimately, at this stage, those forks depend on upstream Firefox developers for 99% of the work.
wait wait, what happened to LibreOffice? I’m trying so hard to not give microsoft money ;-;
Don’t worry, this is very old news.
OpenOffice.org was basically stuck in a bureaucratic hell of their own and couldn’t really do major decisions without the leaders’ approval. I think Sun Microsystems/Oracle was involved.
Some high up developers got basically kicked out by the governing folk, so they decided to start the Document Foundation to make LibreOffice, and vast majority of the developers followed. They were just happy to be actually able to do something.
OpenOffice got donated to Apache Project and there’s been very minimal maintenance on it ever since.
Librewolf
Ironfox mobile, Librewolf desktop.
Occasionlly Vivaldi if I have to use chromium for something on rare occasion.
Firefox
LibreWolf is the only right answer.
Vivaldi.
Second this because, they based in the EU and ain’t adding AI. The only con is that it is not open source
I can’t close tabs and have hundreds open (I have a problem). Between their workspaces that only show specific tabs, tab stacking, and tab memory management that kills the memory of any that I haven’t used in a while so it’s not absurdly slow… I don’t think I could switch.
edit: Also, it’s EU based.
Ironfox on smartphone, Librewolf on desktop
Why can’t I enable dark theme on websites with IronFox? There’s two places in its settings, I played around with both, neither works. Help me ween off Brave.
Didn’t it take over the devices’ theme settings? So far the browser itself is dark, some websites within are not.
Firefox. It’s fine. The ai stuff is concerning , but nothing’s caused me enough pain to switch yet
!waterfox@programming.dev is literally identical to Firefox, but the AI removed
Hm maybe I’ll try that. Looks like there’s an android version
Netscape navigator.
PSA that SeaMonkey is basically rebranded netscape suite still being updated
Firefox mainly and some forks (Floorp, Librefox, Fennex, Ironfox) also Vivaldi
Vivaldi, so far very happy with it!
How is it in terms of privacy?
I just had a quick search, I can be wrong so do not take these as facts but some parts seems to be open source and some UI parts closed, like many web browsers they get sone revenues from a start page but the owners seems very decent and advocates for internet privacy since the 1999.
Also they are based in EU which i trust way more than US servers.
Firefox, begrudgingly.
It’s the best browser from a performance standpoint, and has the features i want, but it’s still a bit of a resource hog. It’s just that everything else is worse (slower, lacking essential features, or most often both).
I use many, usually Firefox.
Zen, at least until Ladybird is ready.
What is ladybird?
A new FOSS browser made by a complete and utter asshole
It makes me sad because initially I was so excited for Ladybird. Finally a new browser engine instead of another shitty chrome fork. Then I find out what and absolute douche canoe the developer was and killed all of my excitement.
tell me more
He moved from Sweden to Silicon Valley, made a bunch of money, but came to hate the “limousine liberal” culture, and felt he was severely discriminated against (in a professional sense) as a hetero white man.
So he left California, got sober, and went full time FOSS developer.
He is an asshole because he now enforces a strict “anti-woke” policy among his contributors, and bans anyone who falls out of line. It’s one thing to ban controversial or political topics, but his interpretation takes things way past any semblance of reason.
A wild one i remember was when he banned someone for using singular they in some documentation, which has been a part of the English language since the Norman period at least. He said it was “political language”.
Yeah I won’t be supporting this browser.
very in depth, thank you
Dang, I was not aware of any of this. A quick search pulls up a bunch of stuff. I’ll look more into it for sure, but come on, can’t we just have nice things?
Yeah me too. Didn’t know. Frustrated. I was hopeful that ladybird was going to save us.
In fairness, the lemmy lead dev also has some… very strongly held ideological views incompatible with my own… yet here we are.
I think there is a difference between having strong views and enforcing them on others, but also context is important.Also not all extreme views are equally harmful/harmless.
I’ve also heard the Lemmy dev has some bad takes (to perhaps put it mildly) but i’ve found the community to be mostly quite civil
See that was my idea till all the assholery happened. But if Ladybird is good and doesn’t require me to pay or see their shitty opinions I think I’d still use it. Cus to this day nothing feels better than a well configured hyprland to me at least
Yeah it’s a similar situation. Sometimes assholes make arguably good software.
Also supposedly the Hyprland community has mellowed out in the last couple years. I can’t confirm, but i hope it’s true
