Ask HN: What broswers do you use and why?

I use Firefox mostly cuz google gets too much of my info already, to use Chrome.

I also make _heavy_ use of containers with firefox. I have containers for everything from clients to banking to gaming. I even have a 'low sec' container with no ad-block or privacy extensions.

I use Opera mainly because it has built-in mouse gestures [0]

[0] - https://help.opera.com/en/latest/shortcuts/#mouseGestures

I switch between Firefox and Chrome. Love Firefox, but for heavier websites and apps, Chrome unfortunately just performs so much smoother. For example I have to use google drive and onedrive to edit documents throughout my day - it's literally night and day between FF and Chrome.

At this point I can only hope that google docs, onedrive, and other bloated webapps get optimized to run on other browsers. I'm not holding my breath.

Firefox because I don't wanna give any more power to Google than they have already. Additionally I like supporting a browser not built by a megacorp which is as functional as the megacorp's browser.

Safari: Main Identity, Shopping and such.

Brave: Research and secondary social media.

Firefox: Used as dedicated threema client.

Opera: if I need a quick VPN or to bypass my pi-hole.

Chrome because I've been using it for the last decade and I like their devtools

Firefox mainly for work and testing apps. Brave for using Tor.