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Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser?

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Currently I am using Firefox (for HN, Stackoverflow, freenode and Gmail, and programming stuff), Chromium for Banking, shopping sites, and for everything else.

I want to get rid of ads, malicious scripts.

What's your default browser?

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Vivaldi! I just can't get enough of it! It's very customizable, runs great, Chromium engine. I don't think I have ever been this happy with a browser.

As for ads/malicius scripts I rely on ublock orgin.

Firefox on laptop and on mobile.

Infact Firefox on mobile is infinitely better as it allows addons. I always setup ublock origin and performance on mobile is even better than desktop.

It is great on laptops too. Just a little bit inconvenienced by 'works only on chrome' websites. That just fuels me more to stick with firefox.

Currently Opera, because of inertia and laziness. Originally I started using it for the free VPN and internet hipsteryness of using a less popular browser (much as I'd like to pretend otherwise, the latter is something my brain finds very appealing). I have a proper VPN setup now, but I've procrastinated switching to Firefox because of the general inconvenience associated with any browser switch and the need to for a minor rewrite on a browser extension I wrote/use.

Firefox with custom user.js from [1]. In addition to this, Multi-Account Containers, HTTPS everywhere, NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger.

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/

Firefox on desktop; same on on mobile along with Firefox Focus (although recently I started using Firefox Preview a bit more instead of regular FF)

Brave on my home PC and Galaxy S8, Chrome at work (unable to download/install other browsers)

Firefox with uBlock, disable javascript toggle, multi-account containers, user-agent switcher

Firefox with tracking protection enabled, uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, and the Smart Referer plugin

Chrome, with uBLock Origin and privacy badger.

Chrome

Firefox

I’m happy with firefox.

Firefox

Chrome

Brave.

Safari

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