Firefox because I like the UI and I think chrome has gotten too dominant.
Brave if I need to chromecast something
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Mull, which is based on Firefox, but removes all the telemetry and stuff. I forget why I chose it over other versions of Firefox. Someone here on Lemmy recommended it.
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Firefox Nightly because of the extensions, Libredirect, uBlock Origin, Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc.
Firefox personally, Arc for work
Ghostery. Protects privacy. I like the UI. Just wish it had a working image search.
Firefox. Been using for longtime
Vivaldi mainly for desktop sync, it's chromium so it has good compatibility, PWA support, and it has ad/tracker blocking though personally I use adguard systemwide. also it's very customizable with navigation and appearance
Firefox for most browsing (especially youtube with ublock), chrome for facebook.
Chrome because of the integration and syncing and my passwords being available across my devices without having to install another app, and memorising yet another set of login details.
Waterfox. A fork of Firefox.
Vivaldi, blocks ads and I'm not that big of a firefox fan.
Mull with ublock origin
I use the DDG App. It closes all my tabs automatically, I'm the type of person to have hundreds or thousands of tabs open and don't need that on my phone.
Plus it's like incognito mode by default, saving cookies on only the sites I explicitly tell it to
I'm sure I can configure Firefox in a similar way but DDG just feels good to me.
Iceraven (Firefox fork)
Cromite
I also use Iceraven. I think, apart from Smart cookiewebpreview, it's the only one that allows for extension sideloading.
Brave ... nothing else suits my needs
Try vilvaldi.
I tried it many times but it consumed more data & resources than brave
Chrome, I'm deep into the Google ecosystem at this point. But i use DDG for my search engine because Google's has gotten noticeably worse for my job in the past year or so
I hate to say it but me too.
Chrome is my daily driver. Firefox Mobile needs major features that only exist in chrome for now.
Tab grouping is the biggest one. But if I could have multiple profiles on Firefox like I can on desktop I'd move today.
Yeah but ublock origin more than makes up for it.
And Dark Reader. I simply don't understand why chrome doesn't have dark mode on android.
I would agree that ublock is good but I have pihole so even on chrome I don't see ads. It's part of the reason why I still haven't moved. If I didn't have pihole I'd probably already have made the move.
Oh yeah fair.
I haven't bothered with DNS level blocking because ublock use so good. #todo.
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Iceraven you can use any extension of your choise
Firefox, with ublock & decentraleyes Because I can access all the open tabs from my fedora laptop and because I try to use as less Google apps as possible. Also been using Firefox for more then 15 years now across all my devices.
Chrome, because it's built into the OS.
Vivaldi, because it is available everywhere, has cross-platform tab syncing, ad-blocking, and a tab bar on Android.
Workspaces, tab stacks, and automatic memory recovery were game chambers for me and my… filing system.
I don't close tabs.
Cromite because PWAs
Brave.
Mull. Hardened Firefox with uBO.
Firefox.
To get away from Chrome as much as possible and becaude my most used plugins from desktop are supported.
Waterfox because I liked Firefox for years then it got bloated and Waterfox is less bloated.
Firefox. I do have chrome for when I need to quickly navigate japanese sites (usually government/visa stuff)
Mull and the duckduckgo app
Why the DDG app?
When the browser first came out I was on chrome and decided to try ddg and have gotten used to it since. I only got into privacy as a focus after that but ddg still does well AMS works for most things I want.
Also quicker than mull on my poor old phone.
Firefox because it's plugins make mobile browsing bareable. I have a folding phone so I wish that Firefox would hurry up and copy Chrome's multi window feature, and then it would be the perfect browser for me.
I use Firefox on desktop too, but I've been experimenting with Arc the last few weeks to see what the fuss is about.
There's also Zen browser that's Arc-like and based on Firefox instead of Chromium. Zen lets you sync tabs with Firefox elsewhere (including mobile Firefox), run the full uBlock Origin, and it is a fully open source browser.
It's also available on Linux too (in addition to Windows and macOS), unlike Arc.
What's the multi window feature in Chrome? Is that like containers in Firefox?
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Is there an Android browser that has ad blocking but still allows you to sign into your Google account?
Firefox?
Ah, apologies. I should've specified: Preferably Chromium based. Thank you for your suggestion though, I appreciate it.
Brave has a builtin ad blocker, though not as good as uBO in Firefox. You also have Cromite, which uses Adblock Plus and also the Kiwi Browser, which supports extensions so you can install uBO.
Firefox bc it has ublock and I think more useful extensions are on the way And I can send my tabs to all my devices very easily