The other day, I was reading a comment here where someone mentioned they use Waterfox (I think it was francopoli). I hadn't heard of that browser before. Since then, I've been looking around for alternatives since someone told me that Firefox is on its way out. I've been using Chrome, but I'm not really fond of it. I really don't care for IE or Edge.
I looked up web browsers and was surprised to see so many out there.
Which web browser do you use and why?
You mentioned ublock, do you know of any adblockers that can bypass video streams that wont let you watch em cause they can detect ublock?
I think Hulu does it, as does HBO-type online streaming sites of cabe networks, but most importantly my favorite porn sites. No you can't have them they are hard-earned and sought out.
Awesome, I'll give this a try. Also I was just kidding Im sorry:D
Yeah I understand that, I keep it disabled on reddit and some news sites, forums, etc. Last thing I want to do is starve some artist just because I can't risk experiencing another Tai Lopez ad.
Same here. I'm so sad they removed the panorama/tab candy but I still love firefox :)
Have you guys heard of/used the Brave browser? Apparently it's by an ex-Mozilla exec. I've never used it, but it supposedly has an option to replace ads with different advertising, and pay browser user a share of the ad revenue generated.
Firefox with uBlock Origin and No-Javascript unless I fucked up my X server at home... then elinks. Next time I might try w3m based on the mention of someone else in this thread. It looks better than elinks. I was looking at Waterfox and I can't understand how it improves on Firefox. It's based on Mozilla and 64 bit, but now Firefox is 64 bit too. What is the advantage?
Right now I am using Chromium but I have previously used Opera and I also have Tor. My Firefox installation has Adobe Flash (locally installed) so in case a website asks for that I use Firefox.
Firefox for the add-ons: Expire history by days FireTitle - for the aesthetics Greasemonkey HTTPS Everywhere NewScrollbars aka NoiaScrollbars - aesthetics NoScript - JS is sin Omnibar - a e s t h e t i c s Private Tab Reddit Enhancement Suite Self-Destructing Cookies Stylish - A E S T H E T I C S Tab Mix Plus Tree Style Tab - This is the one that keeps me on FF the most uBlock Origin I've also got a custom userChrome.css loaded up in Stylish. If I'm living in a terminal, I opt for w3m. It's the only one with out of the box image support on my system. I'm keeping an eye on Netsurf, too. I think it has a lot of potential.
I use some of those extensions also. I have Ghostery, uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus and NoScript. No script has saved me from myself multiple times. When I've accidentally clicked a dodgy link, the page usually comes up blank. There was no extension in Chrome that did the same, so I'm a lot more wary with Chrome. NoScript allows for parts of the page to show that don't have scripts. Chrome seems to show all or nothing. In Chrome, I tried uMatrix and got mostly nothing while ScriptBlock and ScriptSafe showed mostly everything. I also use the feature built in Firefox to delete history and cookies on every Firefox close. Chrome also doesn't have this feature. The best I can do to duplicate it is to go incognito in Chrome so that cookies and history aren't saved. That's very inconvenient for every visit.
Thank you for the questions and the recommendations. I'm a non-tech person. It sounds like you are a more tech type person. I realized that Ghostery and Adblock were redundant, but I figured that more protection couldn't be bad. Unfortunately, I think I was wrong on that. I had just installed uBlock a few days ago and wanted to try it out, so I left the others running. My Firefox froze up a couple times. I'm uninstalling Ghostery and Adblock (thanks!) and hoping that helps. I'm still pretty unfamiliar with uBlock. It says that it's filtering hundreds of items, but I can't tell what they are. Is there a place where I can see what it's blocking? I checked out the Click & Clean. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not sure I like that it scans the computer for malware, so I have to take a better look at it. I like my extensions to protect me from things that are coming from outside. I'm not so happy that they try to look inside my computer. Perhaps that's not what it does, and it was just poor wording in the description. I looked at the Iridium browser. Is it German? Not to be region-centric, but that gives me pause, only because the laws here are different, so I don't know if that affects anything. Thanks again for the advice. I appreciate it.
Thanks! No worries. I did install it and trashed it after I read this comment. I've seen it recommended a lot on Reddit. I'll wait for your comments on it, or wait until I have more time to research it. I keep thinking that Chrome should have a simpler way to delete history on close than to add an extension. But that may be expecting too much from a company that scans your email and adds corresponding ads in them. (I hope they've stopped doing that by now.)
Firefox alll the way. Well, chrome with some shady VPN for netflix, but that's kaputt now so I haven't used that a while. I'm not a fan of giving google more power than it already has - but the main draws for firefox is still the modularity of the thing.
I use Chrome, with Opera and Firefox as portable backups just in case. I use Google extensively: mail, Keep (note-keeping service with offline access), YouTube etc., so it feels natural to go Chrome. Besides, having the browser settings sync functionality is great when you have to switch PCs or OSes... just remember the keyphrase (had to delete my oldest-running sync because I didn't; but turned for the best, since I already kept in mind what kinds of extensions I needed, and the rest came by).
Use? Firefox ESR because of vimperator. Vimperator seems to be a dying project though, so I'll probably have to jump ship to something else at some point. Like? Lynx. Overlap between Use and Like? Almost nil.
I use Chrome, but I'm not married to it. Its... fine, which i guess is all you can ask for in a web browser - adequacy.
I use Chrome. Last time I checked it was the fastest browser available and now, if there are improvements, we almost can't see the difference so I keep it. The security is ok. I have access to the extensions Adblock, Ghostery and Google Dictionary and it works great. The bookmark system is easily set-up (I have a lot of bookmarks) so it's a plus.
uBlock Origin is a lot lighter than AbP. My main beef with Chrome is every now and then they'll roll an update that causes their extensions to leak like balls and then when I look at activity monitor every tab is running like three processes. And then you have to kill all the extensions until Google figures out that they screwed the pooch. And then you diddle around for a while trying to find something better and you realize that, much like email clients, browsers are the shittiest thing on your computer because for some reason nobody can write a webpage that fits in under a MB and doesn't rely on eleven fucking extensions to run.
That reminds me of a talk I listened to recently - The Website Obesity Crisisnobody can write a webpage that fits in under a MB
I will give a try to uBlock Origin soon, thanks for the tip. Do you use other extensions that you find great ?
In my opinion, the trick to Chrome is to run as few plugins as you can get away with, as every plugin and every tab is a process and the more processes, the slower things run. I run 1password, Ghostery, uBlock Origin and Google Hangouts, and I occasionally disable Google Hangouts because it seems to be a primary cause of Chrome misbehavior.