What Browser do you use?

Over the past few years I have been using the Brave browser. My assumption is that a lot of people on Permies might use browsers other than Chrome/Firefox/Edge etc. at a higher rate. Always looking for better alternates, thanks.

I use Brave as well.

For personal use, I only use my 2 ipads. So safari for general browsing, firefox for stuff where I don't trust safari's sandboxing (whatsapp, work gmail) and brave for youtube.

Brave is great at filtering the ads but the performance is terrible.

I run an encrypted vpn on all my devices.



Personally I wouldn't put Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox in the same grouping.

Chrome is a bit of a vacuum cleaner for personal data and edge IS chrome with that data routed to microsoft.
Apple has a much better reputation for protecting privacy and so does Mozilla.

When I was working in a microsoft/exchange/365/teams environment I used Edge because that already had access to all of that data and Edge has decent performance and features.

Now I'm working in a google environment I'm using chrome as again, they already have access to all of that data and Chrome has decent performance and features.

Hi Frank,
I use Firefox primarily. Edge or Chrome when I have to.

I use Firefox because Chrome, Edge, and Safari are all developed by companies that make a significant amount of money through advertising.

Primarily: Edge at work, Firefox at home, Safari on my iPhone. But part of what I do professionally is web development so I have all the mainstream browsers installed for testing my applications.

I've beeen using Opera for probably a decade now and love it.  Solid platform and has a built in Ad blocker & VPN.

Only downside, sometimes certain websites will give me trouble when I need to do video conferencing (probably due to pop-up blocker).
On those rare occasions, I'll use Firefox to get by.

Have never heard of Brave or Opera?  My favorate browser is FireFox, but will use Chrome when I can't.  I detest Edge and avoid it at all costs unless I am forced to use it.

Michael Qulek wrote:I detest Edge and avoid it at all costs unless I am forced to use it.

Based on decades of experience fighting with IE, I expected to feel the same way, but I've been pleasantly surprised.

Pete Podurgiel wrote:I've beeen using Opera for probably a decade now and love it.  Solid platform and has a built in Ad blocker & VPN.

Only downside, sometimes certain websites will give me trouble when I need to do video conferencing (probably due to pop-up blocker).
On those rare occasions, I'll use Firefox to get by.

What is the major pros and cons for Opera from your perspective?

Duckduckgo has a nice browser with easy one button history and cookie removal.   It comes with some nice adblocker features which helps pages load much faster, especially news pages.

I prefer Firefox. It doesn't harvest personal information and it stops videos from auto playing.

On my Windows boxes, I don't install extensions (increases the attack surface for the bad guys to exploit). These are used for business and banking, so ads aren't an issue.

On my Linux "go anywhere on the Web" boxes I add two extensions: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials and Ghostery. Ads rarely get through, so these old systems run fast and clean.