Google chrome. Sad but true.
Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
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Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#52Work gives macs and iphones. I use macs and iphones. I have some PCs and some linux boxes, but those are for gaming stuff and personal dev stuff.
Syncing across all devices is goddam amazing. I can pull tabs from my work machine to my work phone or my personal phone, or my ipad or whatever.
Safari is really the best total experience.
Other people will have different opinions, of course.
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#53I like Safari on Macs and iOS and Chrome on everything else. I would like to use Edge on my Surface for lower power drain, but it's still a bit too buggy and doesn't offer me anything compelling over Chrome.
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#54Still Chrome - all the browsers have warts. As someone who uses a lot of Google services, the login ability in Chrome is valuable, and it stores my bookmarks too. The devtools are also king of the crop by far. Firefox's devtools irritates me, and they have made some piss poor decisions, such as the switchover to geckodriver without it being stable for WebDriver support. Safari is still lol, and has some awful UX, eve…
What do you think about Chrome's privacy? It seems in Goog's interest to mine browsers for as much as it can get out of the user: do we have any reason to think it's not happening?
They care a shit ton about preserving your privacy despite the insane amount of info they collect. That said, if you're concerned about this, use Chromium (which has that shit turned off) and a ad/tracker blocking VPN service like Disconnect.me or PIA with MACE
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#55I like Firefox, but on my Mac I use Safari because every other browser sucks down battery at ridiculous levels in comparison. I don't need anything fancy, and I don't use any extensions (I do my ad blocking at my DNS server). So Safari is generally good enough. The only thing I dislike about it is, when the developer tools are open, everything on the screen flashes red when you click or mouse over it. That's my only…
Chrome is much better about power consumption since v50 or so
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#56I like Firefox, but on my Mac I use Safari because every other browser sucks down battery at ridiculous levels in comparison. I don't need anything fancy, and I don't use any extensions (I do my ad blocking at my DNS server). So Safari is generally good enough. The only thing I dislike about it is, when the developer tools are open, everything on the screen flashes red when you click or mouse over it. That's my only…
You can also use http://kablock.com Safari extension, works well.
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#57Firefox, because I can open a website in a sidebar. I read news that way.
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#58Brave. I don't use it for everything but I've been using it more and more oftem
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#59Firefox, solely for TreeStyleTabs. I really doubt I'll ever switch so long as it's the only browser that has it. The built in PDF viewer is also very nice. Ill occasionally use Chrome for its better support of Flash websites without having Flash installed.
Yet another TreeStyleTabs user here. That + SessionManager is just too functional to give up.
Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?
#60I prefer vimb [1] as my $BROWSER. I recommend it to people who like minimal, keyboard-driven, text-configured browsers. vimb has excellent documentation and a responsive maintainer.
I often switch to Chrome with vimium [2] for tasks when
vimb does not correctly render a site
I need developer tools
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