What is your main browser (engine)?
Re-running a poll I saw on Mastodon a while ago, before various migrations. Just collecting numbers, not seeking advice or anything. Please boost for reach.
Poll
Voting ended 11 Sep 2023 at 5:03.
What is your main browser (engine)? Re-running a poll I saw on Mastodon a while ago, before various migrations. Just collecting numbers, not seeking advice or anything. Please boost for reach. Anonymous poll
Poll
Chrome (any flavor)
1,322
14.3%
Firefox
5,459
59.1%
Safari
2,081
22.5%
Other
9,239 people voted. 377
4.1%
Voting ended 11 Sep 2023 at 5:03. 161 comments
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@isagalaev I use Chrome for social media browsing, but I have turned off every cookie / tracking button I can find. I use Firefox for almost everything else, except streaming. where I use Edge. DuckDuckGo is my search engine. I don't put all my cookies in one basket. 🧐 @JustineSmithies @ellenor2000 @isagalaev Blink, but with KDE instead of Google. Very nice. @isagalaev librewolf for personal usage on desktop and mull on android (both Firefox forks) @isagalaev @isagalaev I use Opera for personal stuff, Firefox for work stuff, and Chrome for everything else. @mattias @isagalaev Right. But it is a different browser for the purpose of using two different logins on the same site. I have installed the containers plug-in on Firefox but same not sure I understand how to use it @panamared27401 @mattias @isagalaev This support article should help: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers @plwt @panamared27401 @mattias +1 to this. I use it whenever I'm forced to open Facebook: just right-click on the [+] button for a new tab and select a container for temporary stuff. Then when it's closed, I'm confident I don't have anything remaining from the site in my browser. @panamared27401 @mattias @isagalaev Not only can you use the Multi-Account Containers extension, you can also use Firefox's own profiles feature (which is much older). You can launch new Firefox instances with a specific profile via shortcut / command. @panamared27401 @mattias @isagalaev I use Firefox profiles: one for my personal use and one for my work. @Cyb3rDad @mattias @isagalaev Right; that is why I installed that new extension. Now I need to read the instructions on how to use it. 👍 @isagalaev @viennawriter Firefox but not having „share Tab im Video-Call with Audio“ makes me go back to Chrome more often I‘d like. @isagalaev @isagalaev @jaxwxboss correct. This is why the poll says "browser engine". It'd be impossible to list all browsers anyway. @isagalaev My current setup: @CuriousApe2020 correct. This is why the poll says "browser engine". It'd be impossible to list all browsers anyway. @anarchopunk_girl I looked at the telemetry and it seemed both anonymised and not to include specific browsing data, so I left it on. @thisismissem there are several things they send that are uniquely identifying (see the self-repair requests, or the stuff they send in safe browsing mode), but honestly yeah, it's totally up to you — they're not collecting nearly as much info as almost anyone else, nor are they using it for anything beyond improving the browser, so if it doesn't bother you, hey, who am I to tell you you're wrong about your own threat model! @isagalaev A WebKit (Safari engine) browser with Firefox as a fallback, but building my own to dogfood. Thus leaving those griping about how few webstandards Safari/WebKit implements complaining even harder... @isagalaev try running the same poll on big tech platforms. Is going to be the exact opposite. Intelligence varies by platform. @isagalaev@mastodon.social fun how this demonstrate of the biais present on the fediverse as of now @isagalaev I try to use gnome web whenever I can. If I have any trouble, then I use Firefox @mattwilcox @isagalaev I'm now deciding that that's not enough for me. Maybe I'll grab chromium for debugging, but I don't desire to continue to use Chrome & it's ad spyware thing @isagalaev Firefox at home, but it is Edge at work, because that is what we have to run on. @isagalaev @film_girl I just cannot get into FireFox these days. Brave for the moment but Safari as a backup. @isagalaev I think this says a ton about Mastodon's active userbase vs the wider web! A lot of my web browsing is at work so I’d say there’s a solid 8 hours in corporate mandated Chrome. Then after that, Personal use on phone: Safari Personal use on desktop/laptop: Firefox @isagalaev I‘m using ARC from the Browser Company. It ist chromium based. Highly recommend. Hop over to their youtube channel for a quick overview why they are building „another“ browser. @isagalaev I’m *really* enjoying Arc from The Browser Company, it’s just a shame it’s based on Chromium! I’m throwing every cookie limiting, ad-blocking extension &c at it though! @byjp @isagalaev it ships with uBlock Origin by default. Add Hagezi Multi Pro blocklist and you should be golden. @isagalaev Not the results I was expecting. Clearly this crowd skews more OSS. Thanks for asking this. Would have never guessed so few Chrome votes. Edge. I loved Firefox for years, but there's just too much stuff that's busted in Firefox anymore. I guess that counts as Chrome. @isagalaev I mainly use Chromium on Ubuntu. I also have Firefox and Opera because they work better in some streaming situations. I have been using Duck Duck Go for search but am having limited success and frequently revert to Google. I use Firefox on my iPhone. @isagalaev @film_girl Safari at home, Firefox at work. Chrome somehow managed to not feel native on *any* platform, which is important for me and why I’m still using problematic Safari. @isagalaev Having a quiet moment as an Old, realizing that Microsoft has been relegated to the dustbin of “Other.” @isagalaev Main browser for what I have a different main browser for Mastodon, for example, than in general. And the device I'm on depends as well. @isagalaev I don't have a 'main browser'. I use various browsers from lynx and w3m to Firefox and variants (like Palemoon and Waterfox). For a while I preferred Conkeror but it's not really working anymore. @isagalaev Oh, I forgot to mention chromium (but not Google Chrome) and Opera. @isagalaev I've been using Edge more and more because Chrome is starting to suck except for Workspace. In work Firefox is blocked because they didn't complete the child data privacy paperwork required. Even though I mostly use a Mac in school Safari always baffled me. @isagalaev @isagalaev Brave here for everything. My ork instance lives on its own backed-up linux container so doesn't need sync, but the real me is multi-device and needs sync. If this lets me down, it'll be back to FF - the Containers extension has some attraction. @isagalaev I've been using Brave. But unless I see better suggestions, I guess I'll need to migrate to Firefox? @isagalaev I use two on my work computer -- Firefox and Safari. I only use Firefox on my personal one. I've been using Firefox since before version 1, with a few gaps here and there (especially before the UI was improved). @isagalaev Edge, because Read aloud helps me with my inattentiveness, which makes it hell to read stuff manually, especially stuff that I have to read, but not necessarily want to. Sleeping tabs also help, because I often can't track my open tabs. Love it's design, icons everywhere FTW. Oh yeah, and great font rendering on Windows. However Microsoft keeps ruining it, so I've been trying Firefox again, but I really dislike it for a lot of reasons, both as a webdev and as a user. @isagalaev honestly, I prefer Firefox, but I'm using Chrome a lot on my new Chromebook @isagalaev @isagalaev Firefox for personal, but chrome with a separate logins for each academic work email and associated pages and bookmarks. and safari for yet another email I rarely use. And all color coded of course! @isagalaev Brave is my main browser but, depending on my needs, I also use Duck Duck Go, Tor, Chrome & Edge which are all on my laptop & phone The main search engine that I use is Duck Duck Go, regardless of which browser that I use. @isagalaev I said Chrome because I use Brave, which I think is Chromium-based. I used to use Firefox, but somehow a Manjaro update made it stop producing audio. I have both Waterfox and Vivaldi on the machine, but I prefer Brave, which blocks ads and trackers by default. I would not at this point use regular Chrome. @isagalaev Chrome for work bc they make me. Duck Duck Go and occasionally Firefox for personal use. @isagalaev I changed from Chrome to Firefox in response to the stuff I've been hearing about anti-competitive practices of Chrome. @isagalaev Firefox, plus another (Falkon) that's a mishmash of Blink (Chrome) and its ancestral Qt interface. Big respect to any NetSurf drivers, who'd be counted as other. http://netsurf-browser.org/ @isagalaev I was on Firefox for many years, but after they did that one update that killed most of the extensions I cared about, then followed it up with gutting the mobile version so my adblocker didn't work, I got jack of it and shifted to Vivaldi. My only regret in doing so is that in questions like this I show up as "Chrome" :p GNU Icecat, which is a version of Firefox but undesired features are removed. @isagalaev The poll is hella interesting from another angle though. Given how Firefox dominates this poll but occupies a miniscule share of the wider population's browser choice... You can probably say that #mastodon is social media for the kinds of people who use #Firefox as their primary browser. @mysteriousyetdreary @isagalaev Safari is the Apple browser right? I haven't used a Mac in like 15 years. Do they even allow you to use/download other browsers? It's a stupid question but i actually don't know the answer. i just hear "Apple = Walled Garden," nod politely, and go about my day @NaClKnight @mysteriousyetdreary @isagalaev They allow other browsers, but they all have to use WebKit so that the rendering is consistent with Safari, so... Effectively, anyone on an apple device is using Safari no matter what. @NaClKnight @fasnix @isagalaev Sure! And i contend that THAT fact says something about the fediverse, who is on it, and who is currently served by it. If that statement intentional, then it's chill. If not, someone should ask why fediverse mostly attracts Firefox users. |
@isagalaev FF, although Chrome at work for now.
Going to switch to FF at work when the number of open tabs goes down a bit. Privacy is not so much an issue there.