What is your primary browser?

I know I’m not a super-techno-geek and that reminds me of the Pink Floyd lyrics: “Your lips move, but I don’t hear what your saying.” aka I have no idea what you just said. :nerd_face:

Also switched to Firefox here a few months ago.

I do keep Chrome on my Pixel 2 enabled as PWA sites work a lot cleaner with it compared to Firefox though.

I forget what podcast interviewed someone who had worked on Brave’s security team, and they left after its transition onto pure Chromium. Their take, with some detail, was that the project is no longer to be trusted. Now, of course, Brave themselves swear up and down that the Chromium base they use is set to have all flags in user privacy’s favor, etc. but I don’t think you have to squint very hard to read between the lines (and note: no blanket, categorical denials such as that they never allow anyone else to alter flag settings, or similar shenanigans): such intimate proximity puts them in a bad position, IMO. Use at your own risk; I wouldn’t.

Relax…relax…relax… :grin::v:

Pi-hole and AdGuard home are applications which block tracking ads and are installed and ran on a raspberry pi or a Linux machine. That device is then placed between you and the internet and used as a filter. Instead of installing an ad-blocker on your browser, this device is used.

https://pi-hole.net/ and AdGuard Home | Network-wide software for any OS: Windows, macOS, Linux

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Brave on desktop and mobile. Love BAT :slight_smile:

I really like FF but totally in on Chrome sadly.

Anyone use Opera?

My primary browser is Chrome on the PC or in Mint…

Cool, thanks for the info and link. That sounds like a good idea. Does is slow down the speed at all?

I did when it first came out. Compared to everything else at the time it was awesome. I believe it was the first browser to have tabs.

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Vivaldi. Made by the founder of Opera, and similar to old Opera before it was bought by a Chinese company and turned into a Chrome clone. I really like features such as tab thumbnails, rocker gestures, good tab management, closed tab history, web panels etc. I’m sure I could get a similar experience on another browser by installing a bunch of extensions, but I like having it out of the box. Paul Thurrott has mentioned it favourably a few times.

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I switched to Phoenix back in 2002, stayed with it through the renaming to Firebird and then Firefox - the early names were trademark encumbered and had to be changed fairly quickly after each release - hence the Thunderbird mail client, it should have been Firebird and Thunderbird, but the database maker took umbrage.

I tried Chrome briefly, but the Datensammelwut* at Google put me off using it (and most of their services). Firefox had problems with Intel graphics drivers for a while in 2017 and I used Edge for a few months, but I’ve been a dedicated Firefox user for nearly 17 years now.

I use NoScript for security, to only allow scripts from sites I trust.

I also use Firefox on my Android devices.

*Datensammelwut - a lovely German word, meaning literally data collection fury, or data acquisitiveness. It basically means a data kleptomaniac.

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That is sensible, if a lot of corporate data is being fed through the browser.

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It is relatively easy to set up. I bought a RP3 earlier this year and set it up on my network, I changed the DHCP settings in my router to make everything use the Pi and it is great. I have around 2.5 million blocked domains (tracking, malware, porn, Facebook & Co.).

It was up and running in under an hour. In the end, I turned off DHCP in the router and turned on DHCP in the Pi, as this allowed me to name the machines on my network and have them resolve properly.

The only thing you have to watch for is browsers switching to DNS over HTTPS. That will bypass your DNS settings and some devices ignore the DNS settings - I had to re-configure my Fire tablet, because it insisted on bypassing the Pi, so I gave it a fixed address and manually entered the DNS server, after that it worked fine.

No. Pi-Hole is serving DNS on the local network, so it is quick. It caches regularly used IPs, so you don’t notice any difference over using your router as a DNS server, which is the norm. It also means you can centrally blacklist/whitelist domains for all devices.

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Firefox 90% of the time at home, work and on my phone.

I do use Chrome for some work related things tied to google services

I do use Chromium for some things at home as a Firebox back up.

Good info - thank you!

Since it’s been in beta - I’ve been using Microsoft Edge Dev (based on Chromium) as my primary, with Edge (UWP) and Google Chrome as alternating secondary browsers.

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Safari on my Mac & iOS devices. Except I use Firefox on my Mac for Facebook only. I’m reluctantly still on Facebook and I will only use it with Firefox + with the Facebook sandboxing add-in.

Surprised there isn’t more Vivaldi love in this thread. That’s my primary browser on desktop.

On my Surface I’m an Edge user - I can’t find any other browser that works as well as Edge while using the Surface in tablet mode. Hoping MS isn’t going to eschew this functionality in the pursuit of the Chromium engine.

I use Edge on my Android mobile as well.

I switch between Firefox and Safari on my Mac depending on what I feel like using at the time. I just use safari on my iPad and iPhone because there’s really no point to using another browser on iOS.

I’ve been using the Dev channel of the Chromium-based Edge and it’s great. I’ve had a few little issues here and there, but for the most part, it’s a solid browser. And I like that it’s providing more competition to Chrome because Microsoft is adding features to Edge that might actually be of interest to some people.

My secondary browser is Firefox, which I mostly use when I run into issues with websites on the new Edge. It’s also handy for times when I want to see if my own web dev code functions as expected in a non-Chromium based browser. But the new Edge remains my default browser.

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