The Browser Wars

[Crylante]

I use Opera because I enjoy being contrarian. Although I do like the built-in adblock.

[Neon Lunar Eclipse]

I use Opera because I enjoy being contrarian. Although I do like the built-in adblock.

Do you also enjoy the built-in VPN and social media sync?

[Big Bad Blue]

Vivaldi: Chrome-based, customizable and privacy-forward. DDG for search too. For fancy websites and/or my credit card company that doesn't play well with Vivaldi I switch to Edge but I resent it every time.

[Sordhau]

Eh, the browser wars are not really a thing anymore. Doesn't something like 70% or so of the world's internet users (outside of maybe China) use Chrome nowadays?

It depends on how you measure, but full statistics are available here; and even in China Chrome predominates.

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[Thermodolia]

I use safari when I’m on my iPhone and Firefox when I’m on my computer.

[Armeattla]

I use Opera because I enjoy being contrarian. Although I do like the built-in adblock.

Opera is a compromise between using Chrome and not using Chrome by using a non-chrome Chromium browser.
Being contrarian is using IceCat or IceWeasel lmao.

[Drongonia]

Firefox gang, but the war is basically over. Chrome won, with Microsoft and Mozilla signing a truce agreement and having their browsers exist in a sort of autonomous zone. Mobile browser wars are going on in a different universe, but with much the same results I'd say.

[Emotional Support Crocodile]

Chrome. Though sadly it is going the way Microsoft went, endless pointless fucking updates to experiment with stupid new features. I basically want my browser to not attract my attention at all.

[Ethel mermania]

Edge.

[Racoda]

Firefox gang, but the war is basically over. Chrome won, with Microsoft and Mozilla signing a truce agreement and having their browsers exist in a sort of autonomous zone. Mobile browser wars are going on in a different universe, but with much the same results I'd say.

Not really, Microsoft bowed. Edge is built on chromium (the open source chrome engine). Only Firefox and Safari (+niche browsers like lynx) remain independent.

[Aephony]

Opera GX
Why? Because of the adblocker, and when I visit clingy websites that go "Turn off your adblocker", Opera GX is not on the list, + I am a hoarder who keeps like 50 tabs open but only use 3 of them. And the game you play when you have no WI-FI is much better than chrome's.
I swear this is not a sponsor.

[Bombadil]

The browser wars were mainly an issue for web developers, the worst was when IE6 was mostly made obsolete but because it was built into company databases, a lot of companies still used it.. troubleshooting a website issue and then going.. 'wait, are you using IE6..?' happened a lot.

It was a tablet issue before as well, creating an application for iPad, Samsung.. and the freaking plethora of tablet screen sizes.. but now with dynamic sites, it's not really a problem.

Frankly there is zero difference between most browsers that affect the average user. Same with laptops and phones, as long as the CPU and memory is decent, 95% of people won't genuinely notice much difference.

[Vistulange]

Safari on my MacBook, Firefox on my Windows PC.

[Emotional Support Crocodile]

If Microsoft put as much effort into designing a decent app, as they put into coercing people to use them, they might occasionally come up with something that was good.

[Forsher]

Frankly there is zero difference between most browsers that affect the average user. Same with laptops and phones, as long as the CPU and memory is decent, 95% of people won't genuinely notice much difference.

I found either that our old XP would crash a lot with Chrome, or it was just Chrome itself... I can't remember which. Either way, I used to call it Google Crash. IE worked just fine and, of course, looked much cleaner and prettier, because it wasn't fucking IE6.

Of course, and hence appending it to this part of your post, that computer was 7-ish years old at the time and it hadn't been top of the range when it was bought. Hell, I'd go as far to say that it was a budget model, possibly from the year before, maybe even sold cheap to clear stock ahead of Vista's launch about six months later.

[PhilTech]

Have to admit that I am surprised to see that many still use Firefox, and I understand that.

[Australian rePublic]

Am I the only one who actively switched to Edge?

[Chrysanthemum State]

I've been using Brave for the past few years. They've gotten into a habit of adding niche features, but it's not annoying enough for me to find another browser.

[Vistulange]

Have to admit that I am surprised to see that many still use Firefox, and I understand that.

In the grand scheme of things, many aren't using Firefox, unfortunately. Google clearly won the browser war, at least for this generation.

[Ethel mermania]

Am I the only one who actively switched to Edge?

Its uncluttered and boring. I use it.

IPad. = safari
Phone = Samsung internet
Puters = edge

[95X]

I think my favorite of all-time is a tie between Seamonkey, and its defunct predecessors Netscape Communicator 4.x and Mozilla Suite. It's unfortunate that many Linux distros and websites don't play nice with it however.

As far as everyday use goes, these days on desktop computers it's usually a Firefox derivative such as Waterfox or IceCat, and I do keep a separate Linux profile with updated stock Firefox on it. I'd probably be all-in on IceCat if it were officially updated though.

On my phone I use a different browser sourced from the F-Droid Repository.

[Thermodolia]

Safari on my MacBook, Firefox on my Windows PC.

That’s me but with my iPhone and iPad as I don’t have a MacBook. I’ve always used Firefox on my PC, not exactly all that enthusiastic about edge. I guess it still kinda seems like IE to me

[The House of Hamid]

Firefox, on all devices. Whyever would I use anything else?

[Risottia]

Firefox on PC, Edge on smartphone.

[Neon Lunar Eclipse]

I wonder if anyone here uses Tor.