Violincello baby! No ads, fastest loads ever, and no ads.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/

LibreWolf on desktop—fennec on mobile (tho I should consider Mull, my history is already in Fennec). Back desktop is Brave—with backup mobile being Mulch + Fx Android Beta (to handle DRM). In the terminal, w3m picking up a new possible maintainer means it will stay my favorite.

I want to follow Ladybird, but man is that hype way overblown relative to where the project actually is & you should not trust leadership that locks communications to US-based proprietary services (Discord + Microsoft GitHub).

Desktop, Librewolf

Mobile Brave, Mull

for something similar to edge, i’d recommend ungoogled chromium. it strips out all of the google garbage. the setup takes a bit of time to get extensions installed, but it’s smooth sailing after that.

if you’re wanting something new, there are many privacy-oriented forks of firefox that can get the job done. one of the common ones is librewolf, but i honestly just stick to normal firefox with ublock origin, container tabs, and noscript.

edit: if anything i said is wrong, please correct me 🙏

Mullvad Browser when I'm on my Desktop, which is basically the Tor Browser but without the Tor network. The Mullvad Browser is instead designed to be used with a VPN.

Vanadium when I'm on my phone, which is is a hardened variant of Chromium providing enhanced privacy and security, similar to how GrapheneOS compares to AOSP.

And when I'm at work or using any other computer I try to mainly use Firefox.

firefox with no script.

Brave and Firefox

Doesn't lemmy have polls?

Since I have not seen it yet in the comments, I use Floorp, a Firefox fork with some nice UI improvements (and apparently some performance improvements, but both are very fast for me).

Just Firefox, I like the way it looks, and it's open source.

When I‘m on an apple device (my phone or work mac) I use Safari. On any other device: Firefox. And if the website doesn’t work properly in either one of those, ungoogled chromium.

A combination of Zen-browser, Firefox and Librewolf.

PC - Firefox with ublock, multi container extension Android - Mull with ublock extension, i delete data on exit

Depends on which computer I'm using. Netscape 4 still works relatively well, as long as you're selective about which sites you try to access.

On desktop I use Mercury Browser - a Firefox fork - but I'm not sure how " privacy focused " it is other than that it's Firefox based

On Android I use Brave Browser , because it meets my needs , while it was good compared to other browsers in privacy tests , I still won't recommend it 100% for privacy for the following reason ( unless you're ok with changing some settings to make it more private ) :

If you care about your privacy , you can read this browser check series for both desktop and mobile ( in German , you might need a translator ) by security expert Kuketz , the rest of the browsers are linked in the same page

Since you're using Edge, I'll assume you're running Windows. In that case, I'd recommend either Librewolf or ungoogled-chromium.

I, myself, use Mullvad Browser and Links2, but they're not quite as good for new users.

Zen Browser on pc, and Fulguris on android.

Brave

Firefox

If you want to stick with Chromium-based browsers, you could try Vivaldi. I am a Firefox user myself but Vivaldi is my backup browser for those rare occasions where I have issues. 95% of the browser is open source, with the remaining 5% being comprised of the closed source UI. Vivaldi has a pretty reasonable privacy policy, an inbuilt ad-blocker and is a 100% employee owned company. It supports all major operating systems and has a sync feature so you could use it as your main browser across all devices if you wanted.

Firefox with plugins. If we want there to be anything but Chromium and Safari in the future it's simply what needs to be done. Forks of Firefox will disappear when Firefox does ...

Currently using Firefox but I'm also keeping an eye on Ladybird.

A customized copy of ungoogled chromium

Firefox then additional hardening through arkenfox.js, minimal extensions - uBlock + Bitwarden.

https://youtu.be/2ssECcbhjJc

Falkon on my Surface Go and Firefox on my Desktop.

librewolf on my laptop, firefox with ublock origin at work and on mobile

Firefox with a handful of extensions, same on phone.

Last time a site "needed" chromium based a user agent switch did the miracle...

Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !

https://zen-browser.app/

It's a Firefox fork btw

I swear this question comes up everyday in Lemmy 😅.

Firefox, I just use Firefox because, it works, it has enough privacy measures, and everyone is looking at the codebase, something that cannot be said about most (if not all) forks.