Ask HN: Which browsers did you try in 2024, and what's your daily browser?

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Post by tikkun » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 3:00 AM UTC

What have you tried, what do you use primarily? For desktop.

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Post by kirubakaran » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 3:28 AM UTC

After Chrome pushed Manifest v3, I've fully switched back to Firefox

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Post by beretguy » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 3:30 AM UTC

Is not like we have a lot of options.

But I tried Firefox forks: LibreWolf, WaterFox and Zen, in that order. I came back to using LibreWolf because it's available in apt which makes it easy to install. I had errors when installing WF on windows, couldn't use it. Zen doesn't support horizontal tabs.

Watch out for Ladybird browser. https://ladybird.org/

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Post by iorrus » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 3:52 AM UTC

I use brave, it’s Crome without all the crud

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Post by spooneybarger » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:14 AM UTC

Brave

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Post by paulcole » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:43 AM UTC

Safari. Works great for me.

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Post by baggy_trough » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 4:47 AM UTC

I use Safari, Firefox, and Edge on macOS for work. I prefer Safari. Firefox has a more amateurish feeling user interface; it's just a bit awkward. Edge feels like this hulking monstrosity that takes a few seconds to load on Apple Silicon.

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Post by binary_slinger » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 7:17 AM UTC

Safari doesn't exist on Windows, and iCloud for Windows sync is terrible.

Firefox doesn't support Wide-Gamut.

Chrome is too enshrined with Google.

Edge has some neat features, but Microsoft keeps pushing Copilot and Bing.

Arc had major security issues, and I've lost trust in them. Also, no Windows.

Opera is a subsidiary of a Chinese company.

Daily driver is Edge with vertical tabs and uBlock Origin.

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Post by sandreas » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 10:37 AM UTC

binary_slinger wrote: post #8

Safari doesn't exist on Windows, and iCloud for Windows sync is terrible. Firefox doesn't support Wide-Gamut. Chrome is too enshrined with Google. Edge has some neat features, but Microsoft keeps pushing Copilot and Bing. Arc had major security issues, and I've lost trust in them. Also, no Windows. Opera is a subsidiary of a Chinese company. Daily driver is Edge with vertical tabs and uBlock Origin.

What do you think about:

Brave

Thorium

ATM I use Firefox on fedora but its more and more getting in my way (system crashes, strange Video playback issues, slow rendering). I'm totally pro open source but it lately got so bad i'm afraid I have no choice than switching to another one...

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Post by LopovJack » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 1:04 PM UTC

Safari as a default, Brave as a backup.