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Is there anybody who uses more than one browser as daily drivers simultaneously? What's your workflow like? I have tried to give Nyxt multiple tries but had to give up cause some things just don't work and had to use Firefox for those.

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The use of tools like Finicky (https://github.com/johnste/finicky) have made it pretty easy for me segregate certain workloads to certain browsers (as long as the links are opened from outside of the current browser).

Safari is my daily driver, but I only take Google Meet meetings in Chrome and Teams meetings in Edge. I’ve also forced certain JIRA URLs to different browsers (Firefox or Edge, depending), because I have to be logged in as particular users for them.

I rarely use other browsers for anything else, but will occasionally test things in them—but using the separate browsers has been really good for segregating certain classes of work.

> as long as the links are opened from outside of the current browser

How do you invoke Finicky, then?

Finicky is set as your system default browser and opens the appropriate browser based on the URL.

How do you invoke Finicky, then?

I'm curious about the workflow. Finicky is set as the system default browser, and then how is that typically invoked when using Finicky? Spotlight? A custom app? Shell tool? etc.

Safari for general browsing (and default) because it's the most energy efficient one.

Firefox for work. The best implementation of pinned tabs. Shame it's a resource hog.

Chrome for reference and research type stuff. No reason why Chrome, I just want that separate from other contexts.

Chrome Canary for development. Still a Chrome, the best browser for development, but I get to separate all the reference stuff nicely from actual Chrome

Brave for streaming, because it's still a Chrome (so supports all the things) and blocks video ads really well.

Tor for... nice try, FBI. :)

I set up iTerm to open up reference type links I care about in Chrome, and all the other ones in Safari.

I use Chrome for anything Google and streaming sites/Chromecast, Firefox for everything dev-related (and of course test on both).

I use several different browsers. I have one completely locked-down (no images, js, cookies, etc), exceptions by whitelist-only + host blocking. That one is used for most of my daily browsing. I use a separate browser for anything that requires webapps or cookies, and an entirely different computer for anything financial or important. The only problem I have is occasionally being frustrated by how bad the Chrome and Firefox UIs are compared to literally anything else, or even themselves a few years ago.

I have really aggressive privacy mechanisms on Firefox and when they break something I need to do I switch to Chrome to do that one thing. (It seems to be mostly a certain kind of oauth flow that gets broken, I’m not curious enough to figure it out because I couldn’t change it anyway)

Every day, firefox for "personal" stuff, chrome for work stuff. Of course, these are both very mainstream browsers so I would be very surprised to come across things in the wild that don't work in both (that wasn't caused by my configuration).

Yeah.

Brave for general browsing/watching videos, Chrome for work apps, Firefox w/ FoxyProxy for some stuff at work only reachable via SSH tunnel, and whatever the embedded Chromium that ships with BurpSuite is for testing webshits.

Each will tend to have a fuckheap of tabs open too.

Yes. I use Chrome to access my work Gmail and Firefox for everything else.

It's a good way to keep things separated. And means I'm unlikely to accidentally share my YouTube viewing when I share a tab in a Google Meet.

Corpo intranet amd a very few other sites don't work properly on Firefox (even more on Android FF), so I occasionally use Chrome to get around that.

I use Firefox with containers on my laptop for my day-to-day, and occasionally use Chrome for dev, testing, or if I just can't load a page right.

Yeah, I alternate between Brave, Chromium, Firefox, and Opera (and Safari on Mac). Firefox any time I want to try to download some media like YouTube vids that are difficult or impossible in other browsers. Brave, Chromium, and Opera are all Chromium under the hood so they’re pretty interchangeable. And Safari on my Mac laptop for optimal battery life.

The last three companies (including where I am now) use Google GSuite so I use Chrome on my MacBook for work. I otherwise use Safari. This makes sense to me.

BTW, I used to donate to the Nyxt project but I started having major difficulties getting it installed (perhaps this is when I did the M1 transition?).

On my work laptop I use chrome for corp stuff and development, firefox for personal usage, and brave for media streaming.

Why Brave for streaming?

Just because it's a third browser that I happened to have installed. Separation of concerns and all. I keep Spotify and Brave in their own workspace on sway/i3, and have YouTube and SoundCloud loaded in Brave.

LibreWolf for everything, qutebrowser for playing games (LibreWolf really sucks at playing web games for some reason)

Firefox for personal, no extension Chromium for dev (besides cookie editor, vue tools, and JSON prettifier)

(devtools > ff tools)

eww and FF daily. I wish Nyxt had less critical issues, I would 100% use it.

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