Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565333

by throwaway_yc • 7 years ago

4 16 7 years ago

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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?

duiker101• 7 years ago

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.

nxpnsv• 7 years ago

I’m happy with firefox.

pietroglyph• 7 years ago

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

jryan49• 7 years ago

Firefox

e83f70479b• 7 years ago

Chrome

2sk21• 7 years ago

Safari

jiscariot• 7 years ago

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

kraitis• 7 years ago

Brave.

neighbour• 7 years ago

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/

666lumberjack• 7 years ago

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.

Benjiwillis• 7 years ago

Chrome

sharmi• 7 years ago

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.

AwesomeFaic• 7 years ago

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

scanny• 7 years ago

Chrome, with uBLock Origin and privacy badger.

zemnl• 7 years ago

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)

croo• 7 years ago

Firefox

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