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I 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…
brave, trying it out cause i heard them in a podcast somewhere
I'm probably in the minority (I know Chrome is the most popular browser; I mean a minority among HN users), but I really like Google Chrome. When you have a powerful desktop with lots of RAM, it's quite good. Plus, I like the Google integration a lot.
When Chrome was released, they took parts of WebKit, parts of Gecko and released a closed browser. -_- It has been opened up since and there are fully OSS versions like Chromium, but since Google had been a big funder of Firefox for so long, a lot of FF people saw this as sort of a betrayal.
Personally, Chrome doesn't have a lot of the tools I need. When it came out, you couldn't make a plugin that created a sidebar without doing a lot of hacky stuff (is this still true?). Chrome also had limits on their API so you couldn't create as efficient adblockers (not sure if this is true anymore either).
Despite issues people have had with the Firefox UI and the Mozilla foundation itself, I still think Firefox is the better choice. I've been using the new multi-process feature of FF and it's considerably faster now as well.
There are some sore points revolving around the use of QtWebKit engine, but they're mostly workable. I set the user-agent to either FF or Chrome to get some sites to not redirect me to their compatibility site, and YouTube support isn't great (no fullscreen). I just set up a keybind to send the current url to youtube-dl/MPC-HC and it works fine.
Well I suppose I'll have to check that one out. EDIT: Installed it, went to facebook, saw ads. Tried a google search, saw ads. Went to reddit, saw ads. Not sure what it's actually blocking.
Blisk looks interesting as well. (EDIT: Chromium re-wrap with device previews, bug reporting, and screen recording)
I tried and liked Vivaldi, but it's just repackaged chromium with a few extra features isn't it?
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, even on iOS. The browser is also home to some of the worst bugs I encounter on frontend these days. To its credit it does better on mobile for battery life & perf, but that's literally its only saving graces.
Edge is better than IE11, but still has its share of wtf bugs.
I sometimes fire up Chrome so I can use its perf tools in some places they are better than Firefox, but the browser generally irritates me. Safari's performance is so much better than the others that I'm comfortable using it day to say, even though I do have to stick to Chrome for WebRTC until that makes it I to Safari.
I'm a bit worried about Google's domination of the web (especially and not entirely related the rapidly escalating danger of AMP) and anything I can do to ensure the web remains an open and diverse platform is worth it.
I 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…
Hi! Can you elaborate on the ad-blocking at DNS server thing? Thanks!
Some people also display little random images from that web server so they can see where the ads would have been on the page they're browsing.
If you don't mind ads being served by the site owners, you'll also be able to see these ads. If ads running on the same server this bothers you, you usually can't block them via DNS and so this is a limitation over something like uBlock Origin which can have rules for dom IDs on a page.