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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?

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Post by freehunter »

swaroop wrote: post #56
freehunter wrote: post #19

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…

You can also use http://kablock.com Safari extension, works well.

I used to run an ad blocker as a Safari extension, but many sites these days don't let you visit if you're running an ad blocker. They can't detect if you're running a Pi-Hole though.

Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?

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Post by freehunter »

Fnoord wrote: post #38
koevet wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! Can you elaborate on the ad-blocking at DNS server thing? Thanks!

Pi-Hole [1], for example. Using a proxy in your system settings together with e.g. Privoxy (which runs locally or remotely on e.g. a RPi) also works (but that is proxy-based filtering). Both DNS-based and proxy-based filtering can be circumvented. I just use uBlock everywhere, and have been playing around with AdNauseam. These work well enough. The only time those fail miserably is when a browser is being embedded in…

Yep, I run Pi-Hole. I ran uBlock before, but a lot of sites would stop working when they detected it, and it didn't work on devices that didn't have browser extensions. I'm pretty happy with this setup.

Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?

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Post by yellowapple »

I really want Netsurf to succeed, and it thus remains my favorite out of principle. Hopefully it'll get better at rendering real-world web pages as it incorporates the ability to run Javascript (via Duktape), but even now it's pretty decent at handling non-JS websites.

Unfortunately, I find myself going back to Firefox time and time again. It's definitely my second-favorite, and probably my first-favorite in practice. The ability to stick all my browser tabs on the side of the browser window instead of the top (even if it requires an extension to do so) is a killer feature that absolutely none of the mainstream browsers (and very few of the non-mainstream ones) seem to offer in any way, shape, or form.

I used to really like Conkeror, and I still love the idea of a minimalist browser with Emacs keybindings, but it doesn't seem to be all that active anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?

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Post by agnivade »

callahad wrote: post #32

Servo! ( https://servo.org/ ) You get to watch as a browser incrementally adds support for the web from scratch, something that hadn't previously happened this century. I'm also rather bullish on Firefox, hence my staying at Mozilla after Persona's cancellation.

How is it now ? I had tried it couple of months back and it failed to render a lot of sites properly.

Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?

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Post by BrendanEich »

Steeeve wrote: post #27

> The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers 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…

We don't block first party ads by default. We may if they become as hazardous and just plain bad as third party. We may add options for first party blocking. Most ad blockers do not block tracking-free 1st party ads, last I checked.

Re: Ask HN: Kicking off 2017, what’s your favourite browser?

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Post by larrykokoszka »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #46

I am looking for a browser which offers separate windows for separate "projects". I'd like to have one window for "general browsing", one window for "research for fitness related stuff", one window for all my open tabs for "web development research" and a few other things. Ideally it should be possible to open such windows via command line so that "browser -w fitness" opens the window with all my fitness-related tabs…

yoodenvranx Ghost Browser (disc: I'm the founder) has a Projects feature that lets you do that. And within each Project you can have multiple isolated browsing sessions which makes web dev and QA go a lot faster.
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